Today's World Literacy Center

01/23/2024

Theodore Kharpertian, finally we have something in common! 😉❤️.

1963 was my favorite Dodger year -EVER.And this video is part of it. It was a TV episode of Mr. ED (Which was one of my favorites at the time) The setup was...

07/15/2023

Liberty and justice for all some... How did we get here? The History School helps children think critically about our past so they can transform tomorrow. At The History School, we believe… Learning inspires action. When children understand how our world was s

02/08/2022

"According to Psychologists, there are four types of Intelligence:

1) Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
2) Emotional Quotient (EQ)
3) Social Quotient (SQ)
4) Adversity Quotient (AQ)

1. Intelligence Quotient (IQ): this is the measure of your level of comprehension. You need IQ to solve maths, memorize things, and recall lessons.

2. Emotional Quotient (EQ): this is the measure of your ability to maintain peace with others, keep to time, be responsible, be honest, respect boundaries, be humble, genuine and considerate.

3. Social Quotient (SQ): this is the measure of your ability to build a network of friends and maintain it over a long period of time.

People that have higher EQ and SQ tend to go further in life than those with a high IQ but low EQ and SQ. Most schools capitalize on improving IQ levels while EQ and SQ are played down.

A man of high IQ can end up being employed by a man of high EQ and SQ even though he has an average IQ.

Your EQ represents your Character, while your SQ represents your Charisma. Give in to habits that will improve these three Qs, especially your EQ and SQ.

Now there is a 4th one, a new paradigm:

4. The Adversity Quotient (AQ): The measure of your ability to go through a rough patch in life, and come out of it without losing your mind.

When faced with troubles, AQ determines who will give up, who will abandon their family, and who will consider su***de.

Parents please expose your children to other areas of life than just Academics. They should adore manual labour (never use work as a form of punishment), Sports and Arts.

Develop their IQ, as well as their EQ, SQ and AQ. They should become multifaceted human beings able to do things independently of their parents.

Finally, do not prepare the road for your children. Prepare your children for the road."

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01/19/2021

Officials say they want to ease demands on students. A revision of the SAT is also planned.

11/08/2020

So very relevant today:

"Adapted from Dana Gioia, “Why Literature Matters” ©2005 by The New York Times Company. Originally published April 10, 2005.
[A] strange thing has happened in the American arts during the past quarter century. While income rose to unforeseen levels, college attendance ballooned, and access to information increased enormously, the interest young Americans showed in the arts—and especially literature—actually diminished.
According to the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, a population study designed and commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts (and executed by the US Bureau of the Census), arts participation by Americans has declined for eight of the nine major forms that are measured....The declines have been most severe among younger adults (ages 18–24). The most worrisome finding in the 2002 study, however, is the declining percentage of Americans, especially young adults, reading literature.
That individuals at a time of crucial intellectual and emotional development bypass the joys and challenges of literature is a troubling trend. If it were true that they substituted histories, biographies, or political works for literature, one might not worry. But book reading of any kind is falling as well.
That such a longstanding and fundamental cultural activity should slip so swiftly, especially among young adults, signifies deep transformations in contemporary life. To call attention to the trend, the Arts Endowment issued the reading portion of the Survey as a separate report, “Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America.”
The decline in reading has consequences that go beyond literature. The significance of reading has become a persistent theme in the business world. The February issue
of Wired magazine, for example, sketches a new set of mental skills and habits proper to the 21st century, aptitudes decidedly literary in character: not “linear, logical, analytical
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talents,” author Daniel Pink states, but “the ability to create artistic and emotional beauty, to detect patterns and opportunities, to craft a satisfying narrative.” When asked what kind of talents they like to see in management positions, business leaders consistently set imagination, creativity, and higher-order thinking at the top.
Ironically, the value of reading and the intellectual faculties that it inculcates appear most clearly as active and engaged literacy declines. There is now a growing awareness of the consequences of nonreading to the workplace. In 2001 the National Association of Manufacturers polled its members on skill deficiencies among employees. Among hourly workers, poor reading skills ranked second, and 38 percent of employers complained that local schools inadequately taught reading comprehension.
The decline of reading is also taking its toll in the civic sphere....A 2003 study of 15- to 26- year-olds’ civic knowledge by the National Conference of State Legislatures concluded, “Young people do not understand the ideals of citizenship... and their appreciation and support of American democracy is limited.”
It is probably no surprise that declining rates of literary reading coincide with declining levels of historical and political awareness among young people. One of the surprising findings of “Reading at Risk” was that literary readers are markedly more civically engaged than nonreaders, scoring two to four times more likely to perform charity work, visit a museum, or attend a sporting event. One reason for their higher social and cultural interactions may lie in the kind of civic and historical knowledge that comes with literary reading....
The evidence of literature’s importance to civic, personal, and economic health is too strong to ignore. The decline of literary reading foreshadows serious long-term social and economic problems, and it is time to bring literature and the other arts into discussions of public policy. Libraries, schools, and public agencies do noble work, but addressing the reading issue will require the leadership of politicians and the business community as well....
Reading is not a timeless, universal capability. Advanced literacy is a specific intellectual skill and social habit that depends on a great many educational, cultural, and economic factors. As more Americans lose this capability, our nation becomes less informed, active, and independent-minded. These are not the qualities that a free, innovative, or productive society can afford to lose."

04/18/2020

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11/20/2019

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11/06/2019

Recent theories in psychology, phenomenology and philosophy of mind, and neuroscience – commonly referred to as “embodied cognition” – indicate that and action are closely connected and, indeed, reciprocally dependent.

Writing by hand can improve a person’s . A 2017 study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that regions associated with are more active when people completed a task by hand, as opposed to on a keyboard. Using EEGs to study electrical brain activity, the authors of the study observed that when describing words using a keyboard, upper alpha/beta/gamma range activity in the central and frontal brain regions were observed, especially during the ideation phase. The authors of the study say writing by hand may promote “deep encoding” of new information in ways that keyboard writing does not.

Other researchers have posited that writing by hand promotes learning and development in ways keyboard writing can’t match. Slowing down, as required when writing by hand, also has many advantages. Because typing is fast, it tends to cause people to employ a less diverse group of words. Research also suggests that when laptops are used to take notes, they may be impairing learning because their use results in shallower processing. A 2014 study in the journal Psychological Science found that students who took notes in longhand tested higher on measures of learning and than students who took notes on laptops. While the students who typed could take down what they heard word for word, “people who took longhand notes could not write fast enough to take verbatim notes — instead they were forced to rephrase the content in their own words,” says Daniel Oppenheimer, co-author of the study and a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. “To do that, people had to think deeply about the material and actually understand the arguments. This helped them learn the material better.”

It also seems that there’s not the same to the part of the brain when people type, as opposed to writing in longhand. “When we a letter of the alphabet, we form it component-stroke by component-stroke, and that process of production involves pathways in the brain that go near or through parts that manage ,” says Virginia Berninger, a professor emerita of education at the University of Washington. Hitting a fully formed letter on a keyboard is a very different sort of task — one that doesn’t involve these same brain pathways. Berninger’s NIH-funded work has also found that learning to write first in print and then in cursive helps young people develop critical reading and thinking skills.

Psychologists have long understood the powerful effects of writing on the human brain. Personal, emotion-focused writing can help people recognise and come to terms with their feelings. Since the 1980s, studies have found that “the writing cure,” which normally involves writing about one’s feelings every day for 15 to 30 minutes, can lead to measurable physical and mental health benefits. These benefits include everything from lower and fewer symptoms to improved function. And there’s evidence that handwriting may better facilitate this form of therapy than typing. A commonly cited 1999 study in the Journal of Traumatic Stress found that writing about a stressful life experience by hand, as opposed to typing about it, led to higher levels of self-disclosure and translated to greater therapeutic benefits.

Longhand note-taking can help people in certain situations form closer connections. One example is that “a doctor who takes notes on a patient’s symptoms by longhand may build more rapport with patients than doctors who are typing into a computer,” says Oppenheimer. And the impersonal nature of keyboard-generated text may also, in some small way, be contributing to the observed toxicity of online and mean behaviour. If words weren’t quite so easy to produce, it’s possible that people would treat them — and maybe each other — with a little more care.

There are so many reasons why handwriting and using longhand to formulate our communications, and those of our family, is good for learning, thought processing and the betterment of the social fabric we exist in. Let’s hope that good old-fashioned handwriting makes a comeback and never becomes an extinct art form.

https://link.medium.com/fNa9dFyF50

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422512/

https://www.intechopen.com/books/advances-in-haptics/digitizing-literacy-reflections-on-the-haptics-of-writing

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Louise_Sundararajan/publication/286188297_Language_emotion_and_health_A_semiotic_perspective_on_the_writing_cure/links/56d9ed2b08aebe4638bb9ca1/Language-emotion-and-health-A-semiotic-perspective-on-the-writing-cure.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1023/A:1024736828322

10/30/2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/students-show-declines-in-nations-report-card-11572433205

American students continued a pattern of failing to make significant gains in a national exam, with result scores dropping in nearly all categories and on par with those from a decade ago.

09/26/2019

Regardless of a child’s age or challenges, parents can encourage sound homework routines for a successful start to the school year.

08/29/2019