Lee Hadden writes:\”
A new article in Scientific American may be of interest to librarians.
Although this article discusses the various methods of teaching reading,
many librarians are interested in literacy education, and have to answer
reference questions about different methods of teaching, hyped by
television commercials aimed at anxious parents and grandparents.
One interesting example is that people are asked if the following
words refer to a flower. Then a series of words on flash cards are shown.
While \”rose\” is often chosen, surprisingly, also the homophone \”rows\” is
chosen as well.
Red [sic] more about it at:
Scientific American, March 2002, page 85 et seq. \”How Should Reading Be Taught?\”
BY KEITH RAYNER, BARBARA R. FOORMAN, CHARLES A. PERFETTI, DAVID PESETSKY
AND MARK S. SEIDENBERG
Also of interest are some articles on the teaching of Creationism in
schools on page 30, and a brief historical note on page 16 from their March
1952 issue, on the introduction of logic machines. \”First formulated in the
19th century by the English mathematician George Boole [of Boolean logic
fame], symbolic logic has been developed into a powerful tool for dealing
with complex problems in mathematics and business…\” and libraries, I
might add.
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