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[Anna Luisa Daigneault]

Hello everyone,

I am writing to you on behalf of the the Living Tongues Institute for
Endangered Languages. I just spoke to David Harrison and he said that "the
headline was a very poor choice by the journalist." He had the post edited
so it is now entitled “English Goes in One Ear and Out Another”: An
Endangered Language
Perspective<http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/06/25/literacy-makes-you-lazy-saving-endangered-languages/>".


You can click on the link and refresh it in your browser to see the new
title. Additionally, we are forwarding all your comments to the Nat Geo
NewsWatch team members who were involved with the article, so they can
better understand the social issues surrounding literacy and oral
traditions and not jump so quickly to conclusions. As people on this thread
have mentioned, journalists sometimes misunderstand and misconstrue the
words of their interviewees, and take certain sentences out of context
without worrying about the consequences. Harrison will also post his own
reply later today when he is back from his trip.

all the best
Anna Luisa

-- 
Anna Luisa Daigneault, M.Sc
Latin America Projects Coordinator & Organizational Fellow
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages<http://www.livingtongues.org>
Enduring Voices
Project<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>
<http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/>@livingtongues<http://twitter.com/#%21/livingtongues>

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Maya Tracy Borhani <gmcmaya at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Jun 26, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Richard Zane Smith wrote:
>
> Memorization requires a calm place, and often some kind of methodical
> routine , sanding, polishing, sweeping,
> hoeing, weeding, driving, snapping beans, twisting dogbane fibers for a
> bowstring....
> these are the moments when the mind is free, unfettered , open and
> malleable.
>
>
>
> As does *any* significant, meaningful, learning. In our homeschooling
> efforts, all "mental" work was done with the accompaniment of at least ONE
> of the suggestions you name - especially math, in Waldorf style, involved
> real, hands-on counting units (blocks, rods, etc;), never just abstract
> theory on paper (for Gr. 1-6).
>
> This paragraph should be incorporated into every school's curriculum
> policy. Thanks for stating it so beautifully.
>
> Maya
> Maya T. Borhani
> Master's Student, Language and Literacy in Education
> Faculty of Education
> University of British Columbia
> 2125 Main Mall
> Vancouver, BC
> Canada V6T 1Z4
>
>
>
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