[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: I just got this message this instant

[Greg Brooks]

David
Thank you for sending this sad news on.
Though I never met Jay, an aspect of my thinking was influenced by his and
Laberge's schema portraying the role of attention in reading. Importantly,
they showed it as a single spotlight, in marked contrast to the four
'searchlights' in the 'searchlights model' advocated in the National
Literacy Strategy in England from 1998 to 2006. One of the best-established
findings from the earliest days of experimental psychology is how difficult
it is to divide attention, or even to switch it constantly between one
focus and another, let alone try to operate more than one focus of
attention at a time. I concluded, and wrote in various places, that in this
respect the searchlights model was conceptually flawed and incoherent.
Whether this had any influence in its abandonment I leave to history.
Stay safe (I recommend from within self-isolation)
Greg Brooks


On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 11:00, P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Great story, Donna!
> pdp
>
> On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 8:56 PM Donna E Alvermann <dalverma at uga.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> David, I am saddened to learn of Jay's passing. I still have a letter
>> that he wrote to me when I was a new assistant professor at UGA. He said he
>> had read an article of mine and that he just wanted to encourage me to keep
>> writing. It arrived out of the blue (meaning I had not interacted with Jay
>> previously). Perhaps that's why his encouragement has remained with me
>> through these many years. I was able to share my gratitude with him one
>> evening when we were seated next to each other at a conference that Deborah
>> Dillon had organized in the Minneapolis area.
>>
>> It's the little things that matter...
>>
>> Respectfully,
>> Donna
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>> Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, December 12, 2020 5:43 AM
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>> *Subject:* [Reading-hall-of-fame] I just got this message this instant
>>
>> [EXTERNAL SENDER - PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY]
>>
>> From Jay Blanchard, who lives in the Phoenix area and has visited Jay
>> with some regularity].
>>
>> Jay Samuels passed this AM of COVID.
>> I am saddened by this development, especially with COVID as the proximal
>> cause. As many of you know, Jay, along with RHF members Bob Dykstra and
>> John Manning, was an influential mentor for me when I was at Minnesota as a
>> grad student and a new professor.  I have such vivid memories of so many
>> things Jay did and said.
>>
>> Haunting (in both an eerie and a very sweet sense) that Jay died on the
>> very day when many are memorializing the contributions of Ken Goodman.
>> Although Jay and Ken help what many of us thought were diametrically
>> opposing views of early reading development and pedagogy, the two shared an
>> alma mater (both got their doctorates at UCLA) and an abiding respect for
>> the contributions of the other to the study of reading processes and
>> pedagogies.
>>
>> David
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