Education

X-Ray Phonics: The Neuroscience Case for a Reading Accommodation That Contributes to Learning to Read

Leave a Comment / Always Learning, Education, Learning, Neuroscience, Reading /

Neuroscience & Literacy Development X-Ray Reading: The Neuroscience Case for a Reading Accommodation That Contributes to Learning to Read Why dynamic, sound-synchronized letter-sound pattern signalling offers a fundamentally greater learning opportunity than conventional whole-word highlighting. Contents The Central Proposition Reading begins with an already proficient auditory language system The VWFA and the development of visual

X-Ray Phonics: The Neuroscience Case for a Reading Accommodation That Contributes to Learning to Read Read More »

Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy

Artificial Learning, Education, Learning, Neuroscience, Reading, Shared Key Distinctions, Terminology Agreements /

Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy — (1 page summary) We established via research that 1st grade American children vary greatly in their history of word exposures with some children having experienced as little as 20 million words and some as many as 100 million. We established that 90 percent of 1st grade American children will

Organic Phonemes and Early Literacy Read More »

Co-Implicating Organic Phonemes and the Visual Word Form Area

Artificial Learning, Education, Learning, Neuroscience, Reading, Shared Key Distinctions, Terminology Agreements /

Deep read our 12 point research summary of the Organic Phoneme Paradigm In our exploration of the VWFA and PQS you said: “with literacy, left ventral occipitotemporal cortex becomes increasingly tuned to the visual regularities of the writing system, ranging from letters through recurring letter combinations and larger orthographic units. Proposed hierarchies move from visual features

Co-Implicating Organic Phonemes and the Visual Word Form Area Read More »

Tomkins and Steinbeck: What A Shame

1st Person Learning, Affect, Agency, Education, Learning, Life-Learned-Human, maladaptive learning, Other Words for Learning, Reading /

Two very different minds. Silvan Tomkins (1911-1991) is considered by many to be the Einstein of emotional science. His theory of emotion defines a core set of indivisible neurobiological elements – “affects” -whose innate and learning conscripted behaviors aggregate to explain the entire universe of human emotion. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) also viewed humans through a

Tomkins and Steinbeck: What A Shame Read More »

Organic Phonemes and Invented Spellings

Education, Reading /

We are describing two realities. A tale of two language systems. One is the inside-out real life learned auditory discriminations that children non consciously make in order to bootstrap their participation in their real world language environment. The other is the outside-in abstractly analytical set of phonemic conventions linguists and orthographists have developed and reading

Organic Phonemes and Invented Spellings Read More »

Lessons in Pluribus

1 Comment / 1st Person Learning, Agency, Always Learning, Climate Change, Education, Ethics, health, Spiritual, US Politics /

There is no ethically legitimate shortcut to population-scale change that bypasses population-scale learning. Ideas that posit change propagating from a small enlightened subset to transform the many—whether framed as morphogenetic fields, 100th Monkey transference, spiritual awakenings,  or  “miracles”—share a common flaw: they erase agency. They imagine that human transformation can happen without participation, consent, or

Lessons in Pluribus Read More »

After Decades of Literacy Improficiency…

Leave a Comment / Affect, Agency, Artificial Learning, Education, Learning, Reading, School Learning /

I had been sharing images of the latest U.S. reading scores since 2003. Usually in the form of stop signs, like these from 2003, 2017, and 2023. Watching these scores remain so close to flatline for 20 years led me to create a video called “A Brief Tour Through Decades of U.S. Reading Scores“. 

After Decades of Literacy Improficiency… Read More »

Organic Phonemes: Background Chats

Always Learning, Education, Neuroscience, Reading, Shared Key Distinctions /

These are most of the the chats that are part of the ChatGpt Project “PreLiterate Auditory Experiences: Organic Phonemes”. They are the background chats summarized in the “12 Keys of Organic Phonemes”. They are not in order of importance or occurrence, though this set began with “English “R” Sound Variations”.  I am sharing them as

Organic Phonemes: Background Chats Read More »

Left Turn Only – The End of Legacy Politics

Leave a Comment / Commentaries, Education, Ethics, History, Learning, Slavery, US Politics /

  The founders of the U.S. created a framework that liberated, enabled, and ignited a more learning-oriented way of being united. Not perfect, but more perfect. More perfectly conducive to a new kind of collaborative learning that ultimately lead the U.S. to become the most intelligent nation on the planet.   Today, predatorily and parasitically

Left Turn Only – The End of Legacy Politics Read More »

Scroll to Top