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This is a continuation of my previous post found here. Peter Blenkinsop, kept insisting that I listen to Prof. Stanislas Dehaene video and educate him on how a child learns to read. Why Peter, who calls himself a consultant, wants me to explain it to him is beyond me but I shall try and describe what I have understood from the video. Peter asked me to listen to minute 14.30 of the video above which says: Reading requires specializing the visual system for the shapes of the letters, and connecting them to speech sounds. Teaching letter-sound correspondences is therefore essential. Brain research converges with educational research: Teaching letter-sound correspondences is the fastest way to acquire reading and comprehension. Once...
Hair twirling, pen clicking, skin picking.I’ve been a fidgeter all my life. It happens when I’m overstimulated with pressure and complex emotions, but it also happens when I’m under-stimulated and uninterested in the topic at hand. I doodled, tapped, and bounced my way through school and carried those habits into my work. These days I do most of my work alternating between laying on the floor, bouncing on an exercise ball, or criss-crossed and tangled up in a chair.I hadn’t thought much of it until I recently sat alone at my local hangout spot, crocheting ferociously while I watched the traffic pass by. Why, even in moments of still contemplation, are my hands always moving? Fidget rings give our restless...
Senses worth further investigation, today: internal and external mental sense The real world is a sensory one, find it with your brain. Using our mental faculties is complex. We obviously use our five basic senses to take in stimuli, and we process that with our body, through our brain (also a part of our body!) We engage our brains with an abstract language that miraculously converts one person’s thoughts into ones and zeros, electronic signals, and then back again. Meaning is made from input, but today we are going to talk more about the mental senses beyond abstraction. Our sense of time, for example, is highly mental and physical, as is our sense of physical space. But there are many...
