tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post115834560092651013..comments2024-03-26T23:57:42.268-04:00Comments on SpeEdChange: The Question of Literacyirasocolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-1158815468339467202006-09-21T01:11:00.000-04:002006-09-21T01:11:00.000-04:00Hi......Well I read it a couple of times and I agr...Hi......Well I read it a couple of times and I agree up to a point about learning styles, there different learning styles and feel that as a teacher I need to teach to the student....I know that some students learn through reading, some through listening, some through discussing and some through touching/doing...Visual, spatial, tactile...BUT...the written word is important...with visual or hearing, the voice, the inflection, the story being told is just that, being told is hearing/knowing the story, with reading it you interpet the story, you decipher it to what you know, each story will have the same theme, plot but it will be different to each reader...their point of view and experiences tell them how to interpert the story they're reading...even a magazine article....I believe that supporting and assisting the written word, but it's still a very important part of learning... now saying that, as a Native Person I put much stock into Oral traditions and learning by doing....my Heritage was to show and tell the student/child, then allow the child/student to do, correct the mistakes as they made them and continue with the practice....This is possible to do with small groups but with the size of and content/curriculum of school systems it's not possible most of the time.... I also believe on ruling out or finding things that assist the learning of written word... Math is another type of language btw....pictographs are just the first step to learning the code of written language....I also have a student with Irlene's syndrome, I've had to learn how to help with her learning, not to mention the Asperger's syndrome child from before.... my learning still isn't over .....like your post and opinion very much...'Til The Next, GraceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-1158354463434057842006-09-15T17:07:00.000-04:002006-09-15T17:07:00.000-04:00ah yes, the tyrrany of the neurotypical and the ty...ah yes, the tyrrany of the neurotypical and the tyranny of the mainstream, but yes, surely useful if you can do it. Like I said, once people learn to want to read, they seem to do whatever they can (in their capability range) to get at words. As in that, "I want to at least be able to read my girlfriend's notes" (or the menu, or whatever). But, as you point out - communication is what really counts.irasocolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01412837280249622430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19457872.post-1158354070432646602006-09-15T17:01:00.000-04:002006-09-15T17:01:00.000-04:00This discussion isn't new. :-) (See also: 'Le Dern...This discussion <A HREF="http://www.classicscentral.com/class1.htm" REL="nofollow">isn't new</A>. :-) (See also: '<A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085426/" REL="nofollow">Le Dernier Combat</A>.)<BR/><BR/>What I was trying to get at before is that if a student *can* learn to decode the symbols, they *need to.* This is the tyrrany of the neurotypical, if you know what I mean.<BR/><BR/>This discussion leads me to an idea...<BR/><BR/>If Steven Spielberg were your English teacher, would he teach you to diagram sentences? He might insist that you learn such things, but his emphasis would be communication. He might also teach you how to market a film, how to negotiate a contract, how to appreciate lens choice and camera movement... A successful communicator and storyteller like Spielberg might well understand that an F on a grammar test doesn't preclude successful communication, and might actually encourage that successful communication despite the F.<BR/><BR/>-htbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com