I know that there is no chinese version of the tapes.
It has come to my attention that the chinese version of the Photoreading book is missing the questions and answers section which is unfortunate because that part has what I consider a very important part to learning. Not only photoreading but learning anything.
That is the concept of NOPS.
NOPS stand for
N - Notice
O - Own it
P - Play with it
S - Stay with it
Once we start school we become disconnected from the way we used to learn as children.
The simple act of walking we learnt by noticing that others were doing something we were not. We owned that fact (didn't cry or carry on that we weren't walking). Then we played with it, experimented getting up fell down and sometimes cried a bit because we got hurt in the process but... We Stayed with it and were walking in a fairly short period of time from when we first started standing up.
Even games, we put the same method or system into action. We watched others ride bikes, owned the idea that we were going to ride a bike too but couldn't yet, We played with it (or even screamed when our parents said no not yet) and we stayed with it, till we got it. Sure we tried different ways of keeping our balance, different ways of falling off (afterall if we fell it might as well be painless).
On the whole as children we just tried different ways to do many things till we figured it out and could say 'I can do this.' We didn't ask how do you do it.. we just saw what we wanted to do and then kept trying until we found the way that was right for us. In fact we often resented others coming along and wanting to show us how it's done. Think back I am sure you can remember a time when you got angry because 'they' wanted to show you.
As we went through school we stopped doing things that way, we started memorising answers rather than thinking of questions. That's why NOPS is so important. It encourages us to bring back the skills for learning that we had as a child.
When you apply that to photoreading you try different things and you remember like learning to ride a bike you probably will make some wrong starts but you just try over and over again to do all the steps.
Learner,
Remember how long it took you to read a book on average without photoreading. Say it took 9 hours to read a book that was as thick as the photoreading book. It would take you 3 hours to finish that book as a beginning photoreader. That 3 hours is made up of 6 times 30 minute activation layers. That means you can look at some of those pages as much as 6 times others 2 to 5 times to get all the information you need.
Be patient with yourself.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited October 02, 2003).]
