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>>Robert Logan asked for information on the Direct Access Reading Technique
>that I alluded to in my prior message. Send mail to listserv at sjuvm.stjohns.edu>with the command: get unpaper disabled
>>This is a 50 page expert paper I did for the UN that outlines the theory,
>research and practice for DART. I can send a copy of the latest reseearch
>confirmation study if you want more information.
>>With respect to the Dunn and Dunn model, I know there is a dimension called
>Variety, related to the preference to do many things in many ways at the
>same time. I have not been able to find a study in the Learning Styles
>Dec, 1995 bibliography on the sjuvm gopher and will speak to Rita Dunn
>when the semester starts. She is just getting interested in the nets and
>may like the dimension. She is tightly focused on one thing at a time
>and may have difficulty with multitasking.
>>Robert liked the way I considered both left and right functions, but I
>have not really explained my conception of right and left. It may not
>be the same as the traditional Robert seems to espouse.
>>Should both sides of the brain be developed? Of course, we do not have any
>choice. But what does that mean? How do the two hemispheres actually differ?
>They differ much more in terms of process than they do in product. Both
>hemisperes do the same thing, but they do it in different ways. For some
>tasks, either left or right processing strategy works equally well; while
>other tasks are done more efficiently with a right or with a left hemisphere
>strategy. Compare a rhyme task with one of spatial relations.
>>The obvious educational plan is to teach the more efficient strategy
>to the student independently of whether it is right or left hemisphere.
>The problem of individual differences makes the obvious a disaster, however.
>Some people do not learn well with a particular strategy and its use results
>in failure. To insist on that particular strategy encourages failure and
>discourages the student. Check the UN Paper for the study investigating
>memory strategies and hemispheric style for research verification.
>>I prefer a different apporoach from Robert when I consider math, science,
>and writing and their relationship to the hemispheres. Previously, I stated
>that the two hemispheres of the brain can do the same things. Actually,
>there is one exception to this: only the left hemisphere of the brain
>can translate conscious experience into the spoken word -- the left hemisphere
>speech center. This has confused the issue because Speech was generalized
>to Language. Language is a function of the whole brain. Speech is a function
>of Language that happens to reside in the Left Hemisphere. Think of the last
>time you had a "tip of the tonguge". All the information was available, but
>it was not reaching the Speech Center. There is anecdote in aboundance that
>Scientists have made discoveries using right hemisphere strategies; topology
>trigonomety, geometry are all heavily right hemisphere oriented; is poetry
>right or left hemisphere?
>>An individual who functions well with both right and left strategies we call
>a genius; an individual with superior left hemisphere strategies goes to
>Harvard; an individual with superior right hemisphere strategies is called
>LD and goes to Vocational School.
>>Robert speaks about the advantages of print because it forces decoding. I
>am not clear on the nature of this advantage, but if it is important,
>should we discourage speed reading?
>>Of more concern, however, is this decoding advantage turns into
>a major disadvantage for those students who do not have the requisite
>decoding skills. This is precisely what happens to children we call
>reading disabled. They cannot learn to read by decoding. Rather than teach
>them to read another way, we give them practice in decoding. It is
>like giving lessons in seeing to the blind rather than teaching them braille.
>>Robert has compared Print and TV on theoretical grounds, but I would like
>to deal with them on empirical grounds. Recently the WISC or Stanford-Binet
>revised its norms upward because kids were scoring too high because of
>watching TV. Are you reminded of some protection agency raising the
>maximal allowable level of pollutant as the level rose in the atmosphere?
>In any case TV does not seem to be having a negative impact; in fact just
>the opposite. I think this is precisely because it does NOT educate but
>provides the opportunity for children to learn. The Nets also
>provide the opportunity to learn and Education must shift it emphasis from
>the Sage on the Stage to the Guide by the Side.
>>Bob Zenhausern, Ph.D. Internet: drz at sjuvm.stjohns.edu>Psychology Department Unibase: drz at rdz.stjohns.edu>SB 15 Marillac Phone: 718-990-6447
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