On 4/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Don Hopkins</b> <<a href="mailto:dhopkins@donhopkins.com">dhopkins@donhopkins.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Albert Cahalan wrote:
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<pre>Actually no. Teachers are comfortable with homonyms, at least if<br>they are already in common use and there is little chance of conflict.<br>The problem with "activity" is that you're introducing a completely
<br>new meaning for a word that is already used for something else in<br>the same contexts.<br> </pre></span>
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In what way is "activity" any more confusing than any other homonym
teachers have to deal with when talking about computers, like
"desktop"? </div></blockquote><div><br>Consider that scene:<br><br>Teatcher: -- "Hi, kids! Today, we'll have a Geography activity with browser activity"...<br><br>Two diferent things called by same word in same context. Children already know this kind of tools (softwares) as "programs" ("programas", in portuguese). Everybody calls software "programa" (just hair-pointed managers calls software "application"). There's no need to call programs "activities", no matter how wonderful would be these programs.
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