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The idea factory at the OECD conference 2012 |
Posted by: John Nicholson - 20-05-2012, 06:49 AM - Forum: John Nicholson
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[SIZE="7"][/SIZE] [SIZE="7"][COLOR="DarkRed"]O E C D 2012
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[SIZE="6"][align=center][COLOR="Black"]Without the OECD and teach the brain I should not be able to present this idea today.
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[SIZE="7"]My Address To The idea factory at the OECD conference 2012
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[SIZE="5"]last year I gave an Abacus to the boss Angel Gurria and his communications director Anthony Gooch this year I'm going to tell them both how to use it and why it is so important.[/SIZE]:adder:
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The idea factory at the OECD conference 2012 |
Posted by: John Nicholson - 20-05-2012, 06:25 AM - Forum: John Nicholson
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O E C D 2012
without the OECD and teach the brain I should not be able to present this idea today.
The idea factory at the OECD conference 2012
last year I gave an Abacus to the boss Angel Gurria and his communications director Athoney Gooch this year I'm going to tell them both how to use it and why it is so important.
Just who am I to address such conferences this, if I told you that I was born, a farmer`s son, and that the seven generations, that came before me were also farmers sons. How did I end up working on a problem I perceive to be the most important problem in the world.
How do we feed everyone on this planet over the next thousand years?
Well it's quite obvious that I cannot do this on my own, this question is not the most important question we have to answer, but the next question is the most important question everyone of us has to address.
How do we provide an equal education for every child already born, and the millions of children that will be born every year that we managed to maintain a human population, on our Earth?
Although the first of these questions is vital, it is the second question that is most important.
How did I discover this, at nearly 50 years of age, having started farming on my own when I was 22 years of age, given half my father's land when I was 30, 250 acres I managed to acquire one of the finest farms in East Yorks, 723 acre farm called Pockthorpe Hall,
when I was 40 years old I bought this farm, developing the farm in order to be able to keep large quantities of pigs producing manure, of great assistance to producing corn, which is of course essential in producing pig meat.
So it was then that the massive company Unilever asked the very week British bank Midland bank to appoint a receiver over my business, I consider then and even more today when we see politicians that are corrupt, big business that is corrupt, even where our British police force is suspected of cooperating with big business illegally.
All I felt I needed was to take a arguments to a civil court, I was naive there is no justice in the United Kingdom when you fall out with a bank, the whole of society is against you. Quite obviously banks should never be above the law, nor should big business be able to manipulate our future, neither the future of all of us, on the future of individuals.
For the first time in my life, with a massive experience in agriculture from the day I was born until I was brought down by a conspiracy, I was never aware that I had suffered any injustice. Injustice to me was new,
so my idea is vital to our future, my idea is this that every child that cannot count and read efficiently is a disgrace on every educated human being on this our Earth.
Every one of us is as responsible for the future of our children as I am, but I was shown human behaviour under a very bright light, I had the time and the patience to follow through a discovery I made,
I was watching Chinese children on television programme in Hong Kong doing arithmetic, they were five and six years of age, they were brilliant as the headmaster Rob numbers on the blackboard the children added or subtracted quicker than he could write, I was amazed by this, I consider then that these children were at least 50 points higher in IQ then our European children, there was some bright so quick witted, then we were shown them using the Chinese Abacus, I breathe a sigh of relief, they were using a simple calculator. The next thing that happened were the Abacus being taken away from the children, my next observation was dramatic, they were just as quick without the calculator as they were when they were using it.
My big discovery was that very young children could calculate mentally simply by being taught to do arithmetic on Abacus. Our human ability is able to follow process and continued use of any process provides us with perfection in that process. These children had developed and mental Abacus, with which they were able to calculate any arithmetic that was necessary for them to do.
Here was something new in my life, here was an idea that I wish to pursue, my youngest daughter was four years old, the next day I bought five strand Abacus with 10 bobbins on each strand, as I worked out how to use it, I wrote the numbers above each strand, after an hour my daughter could divide those bobbins and half telling me the answer was 55,555 at four years of age with one hours demonstration my daughter could divide 111,110 x 2 a 17 year exploration of human ability had just begun.
After a while I reorganised the Abacus to carry words, in trials where the child was encountering educational difficulties we discover that three strands were all that was needed to develop the concept of writing numbers, the concept I use to demonstrate counting on the Abacus one map, where after counting to 10 I will hold my hand up and ask please Mr decimal give me 10, so it is that an Abacus one map and a few stones can bring about the earliest arithmetic education anyone can wish to have.
But children like to work on their own, there is a massive demand by every young child to learn, how else could they learn to speak 10,000 words and know the meaning of those 10,000 words before they are five years of age. Our human intelligence is inherent within our species 1 million generations I connected to one woman in Africa, within our evolution every child born with good eyesight and in normal health can learn to count to 11,000,000 before they go to school quite easily.
But there is an even more important thing happening to a child that is learning to count as they read the words on the Abacus they develop the ability to use their neural highways for reading, what I have developed is a counting road to reading, I am in immensely proud of my research, continually I have thought that I would die before I could demonstrate to the world what I knew, so it is in the last seven years of my life I have used these pages to store everything that I discovered in order that you can learn quickly how to teach your own child and every other child on our Earth how to read easily after you have first shown them out to count properly, I shall never rest my case this is really the first public offering of what I have discovered in 17 years trying to write a personal injustice by providing essential justice in education.
So publicly I am asking the beneficiaries of the Midland bank HSBC there no direct responsibility for corporate responsibility for what happened to me and Unilever to assist in teaching every child on earth how to count and read, let big business take up the challenge to educate every child on earth in counting and reading in order that they may teach themselves.
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A Revolution In The Evolution Of Education |
Posted by: John Nicholson - 13-05-2012, 09:20 AM - Forum: John Nicholson
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[SIZE="7"]A Revolution In The Evolution Of Education
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[SIZE="6"][COLOR="DarkRed"]I realised this was such a good title after I used it last time as a secondary title, so I captured it for ever.
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[COLOR="Blue"]Using a new concept in abacus for parents to teach every child on earth the starting point of counting and reading in their own language.
This is an older version of my theme system one 4 every 1, this needs updating
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[SIZE="6"]But it is still very relevant.
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My Best Explanation Of Abacus One |
Posted by: John Nicholson - 27-04-2012, 12:09 PM - Forum: John Nicholson
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[COLOR="DarkRed"][SIZE="7"]My Best Explanation Of Abacus One
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[/COLOR] [SIZE="5"]Quiet obviously our human future is dependent more on equal opportunity then ever before in our history, recognising this and the fact that the Abacus is the most powerful teacher that any child can utilise, my discovery of the Abacus, of its power to educate and inform, has driven me to devote my life to insuring universal equality in primary education. This means ensuring that every child born is taught at the first opportunity we have, between mother and child, to learn arithmetic, easily taught by systematic steps, first step using the child’s natural map of ten, its own hands, by teaching your child the name of each finger you are giving your child the ability to understand the meaning of every number, writing the numeral on the nail and the word above each finger when your child with your help has created a hard copy of its own hands.
[SIZE="6"][COLOR="DarkRed"] Which links meaning, language, numeral and the written word as one.
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You will have to read and understood this, if you can read. If you cannot read I can show you.
Abacus one is our second map, if you can read, teach yourself, how to use it to demonstrate everything you can, you can ask it over a million questions, (probably a billion) it can give you One Thousand One Hundred and Eleven answers.
[SIZE="6"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]Again if you cannot read I will show you how.
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Moving on to our third map. The Abacus One Map, a counting board, simply take seven stones, or seven counters and a 10 sided dice and illustrate to your child how you can build up numbers
[COLOR="Red"][SIZE="6"] from One, to Eleven Million, Eleven Thousand, One Hundred and Ten.
[/SIZE][/COLOR]Once more if you can read, teach yourself and your child the game chance encounter written by a distinguished professor of theoretical physics.
If you cannot read, or understand from reading, his recommendations I will show you how.
Between the ages of three and four, every healthy child born should be able to manage how to do this, with the aid of their parents, grandparents or a state nursery school.
Once your child or any child has perfected arithmetic to anything like this standard between the ages of three and four, its brain will be developed enough to teach itself to read after you have Taught your child four of the essential seven steps to reading that I have developed, in order that every child can complete this essential basic skills knowledge.
Teaching myself about brain function has been one of the greatest pleasures in my life,
ensuring that everyone else can understand what I am talking about, has been one of the greatest trials in my life.
On the website teach the brain I have nearly 700 small essays, many are my own concepts fully understood, or relevant copies of research papers vital in understanding our own brain function.
From my farming background I understand how difficult it will be to feed everyone on our earth, common-sense tells us that without basic food supplies, we shall have no possibility of world peace.
Common sense should tell everyone of us, we have to ensure that our children have to have the best basic education possible.
The computer and the possibilities arriving from its imitation of our human brain, especially in regards to memory or teaching ability are way beyond the capabilities of the individual mind, but what our human mind can achieve at the speed of light will always be more exceptional.
In order for you to read this explanation on a computer, will have taken at least one million human minds in order to create these possibilities, but for you to read it, and understand it, has taken evolution millions of years towards this perfection,
Taken from Stanislas Dehaene: how can we have a brain based education without understanding the Brain?
My answer We can achieve universal understanding of arithmetic , simply by visualisation but when we activate the brain with tools of conscious instantaneous calculation ability, we are building neural pathways for the perfection required to combine the conscious and subconscious abilities we need in order to read and think.
The conscious mind takes care of the meaning and the subconscious mind takes care of the message.
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ABACUS ONE WILL ALWAYS BE THE WORLDS BEST TEACHER
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Simply because every child can absorb all the basic arithmetic processes perfectly in one year without pain to either teacher or child. :adder:
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Natures natural brain plasticity |
Posted by: John Nicholson - 26-04-2012, 11:15 PM - Forum: John Nicholson
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[SIZE="6"][COLOR="DarkRed"]Natures natural brain plasticity
Research Showing The Natural Changes Which Take Place When Areas Of The Brain Are Damaged
I have used this research to demonstrate how our complex brain manages to reorganise itself quite naturally when the brain is damaged before birth or after birth
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[SIZE="5"]Brain areas that serve specific functions for vision or hearing can take on a corresponding role for other senses in people who are blind or deaf.
By Cararl Sherherhermanan
Do the blind hear better, and the deaf see better, than those whose senses are intact? Some consider this widely held belief mere folklore, but recent research has verified the reality of cross-sensory enhancement, and offered insights into the neuroplasticity behind it.
There is ample evidence that the brain reorganizes in people who have sensory deficits. For example, the occipital cortex, which normally responds to visual stimuli, is activated by sound and touch in people who were blind from birth. Without this compensation, other senses suffer: in one famous case, reported in 2000, a blind woman lost the ability to read Braille after a stroke damaged her visual cortex. By temporarily disrupting occipital function with transcranial magnetic stimulation, researchers distorted tactile sensation in blind volunteers in a 1997 study.
New research has gone further, suggesting that precisely defined areas, or modules, that normally serve specific functions for vision or hearing can assume a corresponding role for other senses in the reorganized brain.
Researchers at Georgetown University tested the ability to localize and identify sounds and tactile sensations in people who had been blind from birth or infancy. Using functional MRI, they saw changes in brain activity in a part of the visual cortex, the middle occipital gyrus (MOG), that normally participates in locating objects of sight.
The MOG was more markedly activated, the researchers found, when the subjects tried to localize sound or touch. The stronger the activation, the better the subjects were at locating sounds.
“We showed that a specific region within the occipital cortex is involved preferentially in processing spatial information, regardless of modality,†says Josef Rauschecker, professor of physiology and biophysics at Georgetown University, and senior author of the paper, which appeared in the Oct. 7, 2010 issue of Neuron. The correlation between localization accuracy and activity in the MOG suggested that compensation through reorganization is “real, and not trivial,†he says. “Adding a chunk of occipital cortex to auditory processing ability is like having a computer with twice the capacity.â€
A study reported in Nature Neuroscience a few days later makes an even stronger case for cross-modal plasticity of specialized brain areas. Researchers led by Steven Lomber of University of Western Ontario led congenitally deaf and normal cats through a series of visual tests. The deaf cats were superior in peripheral vision and movement detection. “This is similar to what has been found in deaf human subjects,†says Lomber.
Using cooling loops implanted in the cats’ brains, the researchers deactivated four areas of the auditory cortex in turn. When they chilled one area, the posterior auditory field, the deaf cats’ peripheral vision became no better than that of the hearing cats. Deactivating another area, the dorsal zone, left their peripheral vision superior but took away their edge in movement detection.
“When visual functions reorganize in deaf auditory cortex, they do so in a specific, not a random way,†says Lomber, noting that the PAF localizes sound in hearing animals, and the DZ is believed to have a role in detecting the movement of sound.
The “double dissociation†shown by the researchers—turning off area
When Senses Re-Align
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Image by permission of Current Biology, http://bit.ly/CurrentBiology
Areas activated by a sound localization task in congenitally blind (red) overlap with area activated by visual localization in sighted individuals (white).
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A blunted function A but left function B intact, and vice versa—was an extremely convincing demonstration that “enhanced visual faculties are localized to well-defined auditory subcortices,†says Daphne Bavelier, director of the Brain and Vision Lab at University of Rochester, who was not involved with either new study.
“It’s nice to see research with different species, on different sensory modalities, reaching the same conclusion,†she says. Taken together, the Lomber and Rauschecker papers suggest “a principle for the functional organization of cross-modal plasticity that didn’t exist before.â€
The Brain Remakes Itself
Plasticity comes naturally to “metamodal†parts of the brain, says Rauschecker. “As other neuroscientists have suggested, areas previously considered unisensory apparently have ‘hidden inputs’ from other senses: the visual cortex also receives auditory and tactile signals. Sometimes the input is inhibitory,†he said, noting that in his sighted control subjects, the occipital cortex area was deactivated by sound and touch. “In the blind, what may be happening is that the hidden inputs get stronger, and the balance shifts from visual to nonvisual.â€
Time is a factor: Can the brains of those whose senses are impaired later in life compensate as well?
In an fMRI study published in Current Biology on Oct. 20, 2010, researchers led by Marina Bedny, a post-doctoral fellow at MIT, studied the middle temporal complex (MT/MST), a brain region that normally responds to visual motion. They found that the area was activated by moving sounds in congenitally blind adults, but not in sighted controls. Adults who had lost vision at age 9 or older reacted like controls: their brains lacked the reorganized circuitry of those born blind.
One person, who became blind between the ages of 2 and 3, similarly showed no more evidence of MT/MST activation by sound than those with normal sight. “These data are suggestive of an early sensitive period within the first couple of years of life in MT/MST development,†the authors wrote.
“If you’re young enough when you become blind, you can use the brain wiring that would have been used for sight to drive brain areas with a different input,†suggests Alvaro Pascual-Leone, director of the Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation and professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who was senior author of the paper. “But if you lose sight later on, when you’ve already shaped connections on the basis of vision, the degree of reorganization may be limited by the scaffolding that’s already in place.“
There is probably no single, absolute “critical period,†he suggests; rather, plasticity is likely to depend on the faculty involved (such as motion detection), and the nature of early experience.
The researchers used fMRI to trace how the brain reconfigures itself. Their analysis of “functional connectivityâ€â€”a map of which brain areas were activated together—indicated that new links had been forged between the prefrontal cortex and MT/MST in those born blind.
“This interesting and somewhat unexpected finding suggests that connections are modified top-down—it’s not so much what comes into a given area from the eye or ear, as how the brain chooses to set itself up,†says Pascual-Leone. “We shouldn’t think of brain organization as a consequence of sensory input, but rather that the brain is a creative hypothesis-building machine that generates expectations, then confronts the world with them.â€
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