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

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Neuroscience & Literacy Development 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 word recognition Revealing how the letters in words represent speech Dynamic synchronization of visual and

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John Steinbeck & Silvan Tomkins – What A Shame!

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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

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The Crisis Beneath the Literacy Crisis

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 This is a podcast conducted by Jesica Glover as a stand alone episode in “My Child Can’t Read: A Heartland Crisis”. The podcast was as recorded on 5-12-26 and was produced on behalf of the Phillips Fundamental Learning Center. The above video is the raw interview.  The interview was edited and released as a

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Don’t Let the Wizards of Iz Distract You

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“I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans.” – Claude Shannon 1987 The Hierarchy of AI Risk The public debate over the existential risk of artificial intelligence is paralyzed by deceptive illusions. The scenarios commanding the most headlines and panic are the most speculative and sensational, while the

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Adapt, Learn, Evolve – Same Dynamic, Different Mechanisms and Timescales

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Cells adapt > brains learn > species evolve. These three considered distinct dynamics are all different temporal/dimensional extensional expressions of the same underlying central dynamic: to differentially extend living presence. Yes. That is a strong unification. It treats adaptation, learning, and evolution not as three fundamentally different kinds of process, but as the same basic

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What’s The Role of Learning In The Meanings of Feelings?

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What are feelings? What is the difference between a feeling and a feeling we recognize? Can a feeling have meaning without prior learning? Feelings are changes in the lived state of an organism. They are not, first of all, ideas about experience. They are the experience becoming different from within: tightening, opening, dread, ease, hurt,

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Is Spiritual Knowing Learned?

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My “Happy Easter” post became the starting point of a very interesting dialogue between myself and my friend Doug.  It’s a fascinating journey into learning and belief in general, and into our beliefs about learning in particular. The following is a review of our dialogue that begins with a (ChatGpt) summary of the dialogue with

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The Egg of Easter

Easter – Died for Whose Sins?

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He says the kingdom is within you. They say the kingdom can only be entered through their system of beliefs. He points learning toward inward spiritual truth. They profess their authority as the source of spiritual truth. He says learn like innocent children. They say children need to be saved from their natures. He speaks

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Lessons in Pluribus

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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

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After Decades of Literacy Improficiency…

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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“. 

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