{"id":1307,"date":"2015-01-26T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2015-01-29T06:17:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:17:42","slug":"carefully-taught-chronically-self-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"Taught, then Self-Taught"},"content":{"rendered":"

IMPLICIT BIAS<\/strong>\u00a0(Stanford School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0definition): \u00a0A positive or negative mental attitude<\/span> towards something which a person holds at an unconscious<\/span> level.<\/p>\n

WordsAhead intends to disrupt institutional wisdom by influencing parents, tutors and educators to teach speech sounds \u2013 rather than ABCs or any alphabet-based notion \u2013 as the default infrastructure for both spoken and written language.<\/p>\n

WA wants to create an implicit bias favoring sound-parsing (phonemic awareness<\/em>) but avoid muddling its focus with commingled phonics jargon (Long-A, Short-A, B-Sound, Hard-C, Soft-C, etc.). \u00a0WA uses *new* names for English speech sounds, V01-C39.<\/p>\n

EXPLICIT BIAS<\/strong>\u00a0is an attitude a person is\u00a0consciously<\/span> aware of.<\/p>\n

*CloudSpelling* is an example of explicitly biased sound-based instruction. \u00a0WA urges ubiquitous opportunities for vocabulary instruction \u2013 including pronunciation and spelling \u2013 ahead of all formal so-called “content” instruction so that students can be completely primed to meet teacher expectations. \u00a0WA waits for demonstrable evidence that learners are actually being taught to spell-out speech sound units, not to sound-out ABCs.<\/p>\n

Tools for this new paradigm have not yet been built because research and development remains incomplete. \u00a0Ironically, research and development remains incomplete because tools for this new approach are not yet built.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, biases will be automatically fostered from very early ages. \u00a0Our brains are naturally hard-wired to hear first, read second, but formal curriculum changes the flow. \u00a0Many brains obviously compensate around distortions or blatant misinformation to simply carry on.<\/p>\n

In her January 26, 2015 article for The New Yorker [The Cobweb: Can the Internet be Archived?<\/span><\/a>], Jill Lepore explores many organizational and ethical issues related to internet information. \u00a0WA alleges that relevance is the linchpin to successful learning. \u00a0Deep language analysis is a righteous intrusion if it means that every person’s underpinnings for both granular and global language study can be explicitly correct<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Time being,\u00a0many people are functionally deaf and remain unsure about how language actually works. \u00a0Sounds are sounds, period. Spoken language may or may not get letter-representations, period. \u00a0But all vocabulary can be heard, said, spelled and read… exclamation mark!<\/p>\n

Doing research in a paper archive is to<\/em><\/p>\n

doing research in a Web archive as<\/em><\/p>\n

going to a fish market is to<\/em><\/p>\n

being thrown in the middle of the ocean;<\/em><\/p>\n

the important thing they have in common is that both involve fish.<\/em><\/p>\n

One’s study of any particular lesson (whether in a classroom or virtually on an electronic device) will be more focused than simply living one’s day-to-day life surrounded by swimming speech sounds. \u00a0One must become confident to catch any cluster of relevant sound-fish and enjoy a delicious and nutritious word-meal with friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IMPLICIT BIAS\u00a0(Stanford School of Medicine\u00a0definition): \u00a0A positive or negative mental attitude towards something which a person holds at an unconscious level. WordsAhead intends to disrupt institutional wisdom by influencing parents, tutors and educators to teach speech sounds \u2013 rather than ABCs or any alphabet-based notion \u2013 as the default infrastructure for both spoken and written language. WA wants to create<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsahead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}