tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post1762199641673495561..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: how much can kids learn by themselves?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-80742329335701634812013-01-17T14:12:25.913-06:002013-01-17T14:12:25.913-06:00"Will this lead to deep reading?"
What ..."Will this lead to deep reading?"<br /><br />What is DEEP READING? What I regarded as fun at the time but what I find amazing and disturbing today Is that I could learn more from one science fiction book in less than a week than I did in a month from my grade school teachers. Part of the problem is that school promoted the memorization of seemingly random facts. They did not support each other in any kind of pattern.<br /><br />But for a science fiction writer to create a story the events and "facts" had to be related and support each other. They must create a pattern and thus a concept in the mind of the reader. If that reader is a child who has never encountered the concepts before then it can enlarge that child's paradigm of reality. The Sun is a star that runs on nuclear fusion and the planets are in orbits around it. That was not in any grade school class I had.<br /><br />So what is to be loaded on the tablets for the kids to read?<br /><br />Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper<br />http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/scientific-language-h-beam-pipers-qomnilingualq<br />http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308/omnilingual<br />http://librivox.org/omnilingual-by-h-beam-piper/<br /><br />Pandemic by Bone, Jesse F.<br />http://www.digilibraries.com/ebook/112122/Pandemic/<br /><br />Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds <br />http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30334/30334-h/30334-h.html<br /><br />Good SF writers can cover a lot of concepts. Even the tablets.<br /><br />http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/funtheyhad.htmlumbrarchisthttp://twitter.com/umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.com