Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tdeck 82 days ago
I don't understand what they think it is they're teaching? Will we teach kids to "read" by taking a photo of their bedtime story and hitting a button next?
1 comments

I'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language

One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". One example I remember was thinking "pony" is "horse" due to association without being able to sound it out.