In an interesting study by Rosalie Fink, interviews of 66 successful adult dyslexics currently thriving in reading-intensive fields such as medicine, law, business, or physics, found that a common factor in everyone's history was their discovery of a burning passion as a child or young adult "Each individual had had a burning desire to know more about a topic of passionate personal interest. Spurred by personal passion, curiosity, and intrinsic motivation, they all read voraciously...they read everything they could find in order to learn more about a topic that fascinated them..." -(High Interest Reading)
Christine Southard on 29 May 13With education technology emerging at a fast and furious pace, outfitting a classroom can make for an intriguing puzzle. We asked two top-notch district tech gurus. how to get beyond the gadgets and put the emphasis back on learning. They sketched out two integrated, cost-effective implementations that do just that.
