24 MAR 2016 by ideonexus
Benefits of Reading Aloud to Children
Every time you read aloud to students, you are modeling good reading skills. From fluency to voice inflection, it is important for students to hear good reading so that they can imitate it in their own reading. Specifically, reading aloud to students:
Provides motivation for reading and learning. By listening to a strong reader model the enjoyment of reading, students will become more motivated for their own reading and learning.
Helps build background knowledge. One of the things that stru...
1 24 MAR 2016 by ideonexus
Tips for Parents to Encourage Reading
Read to your child. Try to read to your child every day. Read from a wide variety of materials and books.
Encourage writing. Encourage your child to scribble and pretend write if they are young. Encourage older children to write stories and letters and share them with the family. Have writing materials readily available.
Have reading material at home. Have a wide variety of books, children's magazines, and newspapers available for children to read or look at.
Get your child a libr...12 JAN 2014 by ideonexus
Selections From a Memetic Lexicon
Auto-toxic
Dangerous to itself. Highly auto-toxic memes are usually self-limiting because they promote the destruction of their hosts (such as the Jim Jones meme; any military indoctrination meme-complex; any "martyrdom" meme). (GMG) (See exo-toxic.)
bait
The part of a meme-complex that promises to benefit the host (usually in return for replicating the complex). The bait usually justifies, but does not explicitly urge, the replication of a meme-complex. (Donald Going, quoted by Hofstadte... 1 
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notesThe most useful and interesting terms.
03 DEC 2013 by ideonexus
Algorithm that Presents Opposing Viewpoints
Social networks allow people to connect with each other and have conversations on a wide variety of topics. However, users tend to connect with like-minded people and read agreeable information, a behavior that leads to group polarization. Motivated by this scenario, we study how to take advantage of partial homophily to suggest agreeable content to users authored by people with opposite views on sensitive issues. We introduce a paradigm to present a data portrait of users, in which their cha... 1 notes
notesIntended to break people out of their protective circles that generate extreme viewpoints, it presents opposing viewpoints that won't offend. Tricky.
31 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Parents Who Know Their Child's Emotions have Power Over T...
Why does this work? We know only a couple parts of the story. The first is that parents who possess emotional information gain the great power of behavioral prediction. Moms and dads become so acquainted with their children’s psychological interiors, they become pros at forecasting probable reactions to almost any situation. This results in an instinctive feel about what is most likely to be helpful, hurtful, or neutral to their child, and in a wide variety of circumstances. That’s about as v... 1 notes
notesParents who pay attention to their children's emotional states can recognize the inner workings of their children and respond to them more effectively. Teach your children the names of the emotions they are experiencing to give them control over them.
08 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
Babies Learn The Sounds of Their Language
We mentioned that part of what makes learning language difficult is that languages carve up sounds and different Ianguages carve them up differently. A wide variety of different sounds, with very different spectrograms, will all seem like the same sound to us, and, in turn, that sound will seem sharply different from other sounds that are actually quite similar to it physically. Suppose you use a speech synthesizer to gradually and continuously change one particular feature of a sound, such a... 1 notes
notesWhen a language does not make a clear distinction between two sounds, the children of that language cannot hear the distinction in other languages.
29 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Means of Penetration for Memes
We looked at three methods of penetration: repetition, cognitive dissonance, and the Trojan horse. When a virus of the mind infects you, it may resemble one of these scenarios:
- Repetition. Repeating a meme until it becomes familiar and part of your programming is one method of mind-virus penetration:
• Hearing a similar message repeatedly on television news, commercials, talk radio, and so on
• Being in a group or organization where, for instance, a charter is read or an oath is taken at ea... 1 notes
notesWays memes infect.
19 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
Species Divisions are Complicated
Zoologists have traditionally divided the vertebrates into classes: major divisions with
names like mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Some zoologists, called 'cladists',* insist that a
proper class must consist of animals all of whom share a common ancestor which belonged to that
class and which has no descendants outside that group. The birds would be an example of a good
class. All birds are descended from a single ancestor that would also have been called a bird and
would have sha...
1 The ancestors are birds are reptiles, but in the fossil record where do we draw the line between them?
30 NOV -0001 by ideonexus
Examples of Phonetic Spelling Failures in English
With spelling erratic, many English words become ideograms that must be learned as a whole, with its parts giving no clue or, worse yet, false clues. If you don't know in advance and just judge by the letters, can you know that "through," "coo," "do," "true," "knew," and "queue" all rhyme? If you don't know in advance and just judge by the letters, can you know that "gnaw," kneel," "mnemonic" and "note" all start with the same consonant sound?
Why can't we say "throo," "koo," "doo," "troo," "...Folksonomies: phonetics
Folksonomies: phonetics
Words that rhyme, but are spelled in a wide variety of ways. We see the fact that children instinctively spell phonetically as childish, but it actually demonstrates that such a method of spelling is more natural.
