One thing we know for sure when we ask the question: “What do our children need for the world they will inherit?’ is  that literacy and numeracy will be on the list. At the recent Rotary international convention I discovered a tool for early early childhood literacy that seems outstanding – outstanding because it is simple and easy to engage with. SOUNS (written purposefully without the D because that is the way people hear the word) are big letters and will work in any language that uses the Latin based alphabet.

    This video is by Ken Long as he moves towards finalizing his proposal for his dissertation.  You can see emergent themes which he will back up in his lit review, how his methodology addresses those and how it alls folds back to he topic issues.  This is also a good example of how video can be used to define the key issues in our defense. Ken and I both welcome your comments here and in the discussion forum which I am setting up for this purpose.