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Tero Toivanen

Eide Neurolearning Blog: Passion and Flow as a Learning Strategy - Talent and Dyslexia - 0 views

  • 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)
    • Tero Toivanen
       
      Kiinnostuksen kohde ja flow saavat oppimistuloksen parantumaan dramaattisesti dyslektisillä aikuisilla.
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    Eide Neurolearning Blog: Passion and Flow as a Learning Strategy - Talent and Dyslexia
Greg O'Connor

Voice Recognition Advances in Latest Version of Google Chrome | Free Resources from the... - 0 views

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    This month, Google released Version 25 of the Chrome browser! The constant flow of improvement leaves no doubt that Google is committed to making an already excellent browser ever better. It's no wonder that Chrome is already the worlds most widely used browser, even though it didn't exist just five years ago!
Samantha Ward

NSTA News - 0 views

  • AT can be any item, piece of equipment, or teachermade product that is designed to improve a student’s functional capability or help a student succeed in accessing the general education curriculum
  • pencil grips
  • text-to-speech
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  • Commercially available mapping software, such as Inspiration, is an example of a high-tech solution to organizational work and thought problems
  • Clip art, videos, animations, maps, diagrams, and other graphic elements can be found online as well and are useful in assisting students who need visual imagery to better understand the concepts in a lesson
  • modified meterstick with staples at the centimeter markings for tactile use by those with visual impairments
  • instructional software program that converts text to speech for students who function at low reading levels; such devices could be used with headsets by students during classroom time
  • Lahm and Morrissette (1994) identify seven instructional areas in which AT has proven advantageous for use with students with mild disabilities: organization, note taking, writing assistance, productivity, access to reference materials, cognitive assistance, and materials modification
  • Organization
  • Light-tech solutions include the use of flow charts, task analysis, webbing or networking ideas, and outlining
  • Graphic organizers
Christine Southard

Flow Chart Maker & Online Diagram Software - 2 views

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    "Diagrams done right."
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