An infograph shown above consists of a main character and its corresponding determiner shown as a circle in the figure above. The infograph is written on a base. The base is no different from lines in a notebook that help a student to write neatly.
The position of the determiner in relation to the main character will alter the meaning of the infograph. For instance the infograph below shows the very first idea or infograph in IGL. The determiner represents the numeric value 0 (zero) and in the position shown represents "peace". Therefore, the IGL system begins with the numeric value of zero as shown below.
Speed
The Infographs used in IGL have been purposely designed with a clean simple structure. The reason for this is that they will be used at high frame rates. The transition from one Infograph to another has to be smooth and easy for learners to see. With the requirement to have revision speeds of up to 3,000 words per minute or 50 ideas per second the calligraphic art applied to animation for the infographs has to maintain a flow and visibility students reviewing work are trained to recognise, can easily follow and can become accustomed to.
Numeracy in Literature
In IGL reading begins with numeracy. Every idea has a numeric value. An idea's meaning is further conveyed by adding a decimal. To become literate a student must learn the numeric value of the words or ideas they encounter. This encourages students to gain familiarity with numbers and their every day use.
Numeracy is later combined with conventional phonetic literacy where students learn the alphabet and how to spell. The reason for placing numeracy before phonetics is simple. A "numberbet" consists of only 10 characters, few enough for children to quickly learn. This simplicity can be used in combination to represent any known idea or word. Children begin to grasp numbers, understand ideas and recognize visual formats even before they learn to write the consonants and vowels of a phonetic system. By relying on numeracy as the principle reading format the pace at which children can move from simple to complex ideas in any language is increased. In addition to the use of numeracy in language in IGL entails that students will be able to use mathematics to help them better understand and gain the written and spoken skills in native and popular modern languages. Better grammar, improved spelling, higher and quicker levels of comprehension will make teachers of any language value the importance of using IGL as a foundational learning tool that will make it easier for students to master written and spoken language.
The infographs in IGL are designed to transmit ideas through animation. Eventually they will do so at high speeds. They therefore have to be simple and clearly formed as is shown by the main character and the determiner that constitute the peace infograph.
Students are expected to learn the numeric value of ten fundamental infographs, reinforce these with at least 16 layers for use in memory and other skills, as well as each idea they represent and eventually the conventional phonetic words.
The infograph that means peace, that is also the first idea to be conveyed, is your first step in learning and eventually teaching IGL.
A change in approach to teaching
In IGL education is like the work of an expert craftsman or woman carefully and devotedly sculpting a child or student's ability to learn while looking out for and paying attention to each child's natural areas of exceptional ability. Exceptional ability or competence in one area is then used to raise ability in areas of skill where the child may be weak. This becomes possible through the IGL mapping process. Schools and their teachers realise that if they are patient and diligent throughout the layering process to ensure each child's competence in a layer is high, then content that in the past may have taken 10 years for a child to learn, could have the potential of being learned and assimilated in just 3 years because they have developed better ways of reading, understanding and interpreting information. Since for the most part layering is a fun activity the intelligence and skill that arises from it makes education much more eventful and less of chore for learners. Focusing on developing the ability to learn rather than just assimilating content means that students will be able to not only learn more than they were taught in the past but do so in manner where school and learning are a much more enjoyable and natural aspect of their lives.
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