Episode 075 welcomes Russ Fugal to the podcast in a two part conversation with Skyler and Morgan. The topics covered in this second part include his background as a reader, cryptography and peer 2 peer technology, mathematics and his desire to make it simple for his children, cognitive development on how we count, why people are born with the ability to count to 4, the language he developed early on to count in base 4, a conversation on base 10, base 12, and base 60, origin of Roman numerals, his daughter’s stronger interest in reading than in mathematics, switching tracks from mathematics to reading development, how children teach themselves to read, speed reading, Chinese characters and reading, his new program called EAR (Engaged Aided Reading), why phonics is a crutch to fluency, reading well is reading by sight, not by phonics, why are brains are good at pattern recognition, the development of his mobile app based on EAR and sight reading, and his hopeful presentation in the SXSW 2018 conference.
Listen to Episode 075 (1h2m, mp3, 96kbps)
Show Notes
Russ Fugal, Facebook Profile
Russ’s Reading Website, Sara.ai
Russ on children teaching themselves to read.
Peter Gray, “Children Teach Themselves to Read”
Russ’s presentation on his base 4 language,
Russ’s presentation on sight reading by EAR.
SXSW to vote on EAR being presented in 2018. CLICK HERE AND VOTE!
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