Insights and Updates - The Literacy Bug Podcast
1) Languages build communities; communities build languages
The title should be obvious, because languages are - ultimately - human inventions. This concept sits at the centre of Wittgenstein’s private language argument. In that argument, Wittgenstein strongly...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Making meaning: weighing up possible states of affairs when assessing a text
Some aspects of literacy are tied up in the skills of being able to read (decode) and write (encode) the words on the page (consistently and methodically). Other aspects are extra-linguistic and are t...Show More
Making meaning: weighing up possible states of affairs when assessing a text
0:00 | Jul 15th, 2023
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) 12 Recommended Resources to Support Reading Development Across Age Groups
Hello, from The Literacy Bug, At this time, we’d like to take the opportunity to share some links to a few quality (mostly free) educational resources that we have come across in the last few years....Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.4) Taking the Time to Mention an Important Project
UPDATE: We are proud to announce that the Living First Language Platform has been selected as one of the Solvers in the 2019 MIT: Solve Global Challenge for Early Childhood Development. See the post b...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Finding One’s Way About
Wittgenstein stated that every philosophical problem is founded on the phrase, “I don’t know my way about.” Consequently, philosophical activity is engaged in the unravelling of perceptual and epistem...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) The Power to Depict: A Further Discussion
There is a running theme to which I keep returning when I consider the power of literacy: its power to depict.It is this ability to “paint” or “represent” with written language that can exemplify our ...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) Applying Our Understanding to Real-World Case Studies
It is with the greatest of pleasures that we share our latest presentation - Applying Our Understanding to Real-World Case Studies. This presentation is the culmination of recent work, and it is an i...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Updated Versions of Presentation Slides
Here at The Literacy Bug, we have been tidying up some of our presentation slides. We thought it would be an opportune time share them with you. First of all, you may or may not know that we have a fe...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) Being brought into the many uses of language
When language-games change, then there is a change of concepts, and with the concepts the meanings of words change. (On Certainty, #65)In the previous blog post, I mentioned that Wittgenstein’s Tracta...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) The Power to Depict
Once again I feel the desire to return to the inspiration for The Literacy Bug: the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. By this stage, it lies in the distant past that this website was once known as...Show More
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