LITERACY STATISTICS: IMPROVE READING

WHAT GOOD IS THE CORE CURRICULUM IF KIDS CAN'T READ?

Learn how to read, how to write, how to use computers, how to find and evaluate information found on the net. Find out more about literacy and approaches to improving it.

This web site is an innovative dynamic model using the World Wide Web and integrating Literacy, Technology and the Arts, effecting a systemic change for the disenfranchised group of people created by illiteracy. Using technology this project will teach children to read and write Standard English and turn a destructive situation around by, addressing the root causes of social problems through a neutral, non judgmental process giving the child's home dialect the dignity it deserves. Improving literacy through arts education and advocacy by providing collaborative and interdisciplinary resources for understanding world culture. And lastly to help all children (especially girls), teachers, and regular folks to learn to use and feel comfortable with technology.

IDEATION SCAFFOLDING Evolution of Language How the Brain Works From Quill to Keys Old Pedagogy Problems to New Pedagogy Solutions Sync Sense Social Rhythm Research Experts Sync & Swim -- Find Connections Between: Speech, Music, Reading, & Technology Motivation The Key is Laughter ~ Play Using Multiple Intelligences and different learning styles Culturally Relevant Content Integrate literacy (Language Arts), the arts (music) and technology into the classroom using Interdisciplinary, thematic, collaborative Online Curriculum

"The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent."

~ Dr. Leon Eisenberg
Physician - 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award for Psychiatric Research
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor Department of Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus Harvard Medical School Dept. of Social Medicine, Ruane Prize for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research
Ethics Genes vs Culture - A leader for over 40 years, spanning pharmacological trials, neurological and psychological theories of autism and social medicine - from research to teaching and social policy. BOOKS

"In the social sciences, paradigms don’t die; they develop vericose veins and get fitted with cardiac pacemakers."

~ Dr. Frederick Erickson
SocioLinguist Rhythmic Microanalyist
George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education
University of California, Los Angeles

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

~ Max Planck
http://www.mpg.de/english/

"Professors are running the scholarly stupidity model forward toward more future scholarly stupidity."

~ William Mason, Anti-Ph.D.
Thinking About Stupidity In Our Scholars

The Chinese invention of moveable type, is credited to Bi Sheng in the year 1045 AD way before Guttenberg ever printed a bible.