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trains you to read faster than your inner reading voice

CBSS / supported text: Readability removes clutter (graphics, ads, buttons, etc.) around what you're trying to read on the world wide web

CBSS / supported text: Readability removes clutter (graphics, ads, buttons, etc.) around what you're trying to read on the world wide web

50 banned books that everyone should read

a web tool useful for marking web pages to "read later"

"For those who are blind, dyslexic or have diseases like multiple sclerosis and have difficulty turning book pages, reading the latest best seller just got easier. Brewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, has launched a worldwide campaign to double the number of books available for print-disabled people."

Online Reading: discussion of supported text and the blurring of the meaning of "book"

Intel announces "mind-reading" brain-scan software, augmented reality innovation, "dispute finder" tech that monitors conversations & warns them when they find contested info, holographic shopping displays, & a TV set-top box that indexes your Internet video

Smart Tutor: online elementary program for building reading and math skills

Supported Text / Supported Math

supported text: Intel reader's mobile e-reader converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud at speeds suiting individual needs.

supported text: Intel reader's mobile e-reader converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud at speeds suiting individual needs.

19 blogs we should be reading

19 blogs we should be reading

Educational Research Newsletter: a consumer-level publication designed to inform educators about research on reading, math, behavior-management and raising student achievement.

Educational Research Newsletter: a consumer-level publication designed to inform educators about research on reading, math, behavior-management and raising student achievement.

Neuropsychologist Dan Willingham writes for the Washington Post on the science of learning. Great for selecting readings for class.

one of the coolest articles that I've read in awhile. William Gibson is great.

only works on the iPhone and Android platform, but once you start using it you will understand why it is such a great product. Once you import your RSS feeds from Google Reader, and your Twitter and Facebook accounts, My6Sense begins analyzing how your read items and will start to give you personalized relevant results. Rather than go based on what you think you are interested in, My6Sense actually looks at what you click on - they have found that sometimes the two don't exactly match up. In this way they can determine what you are really interested in rather than what you think you are interested in.

edublog2008 winner (best educational wiki); Center for Global Teaching

The Flat Classroom Project is a global, collaborative project using Web 2.0 tools to foster communication, collaboration and creation. For inspiration and content material it draws on the work of Thomas Friedman and 'The World is Flat'. Read more about the project background and view 2006 and 2007 archives.

Introducing the Earworms Musical Brain Trainer Learn a new Language in Second Life, your Ipod, your iPhone or PC for the new year! 200+ essential words and phrases anchored into your long-term memory with great music. The 70 minute Earworms SLCD's will play the tracks inworld - can be downloaded as mp3 files to your desktop, Ipod or Iphone and comes with full documentation on PDF files for you to print and read at your leisure. Come and sample Earworms for yourself inworld - visit us at and TP up to The Earworms Loft Earworms mbt puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, but also transports them deep into your long-term memory. Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex. You will have successfully learned the phrase and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: While jogging, in the car, in the bath, doing the ironing…you can be learning a new language at the same time! earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language course to get your toe tapping. You know the phenomena of those catchy tunes or earworms that you just can't get out of your head? Voulezvous coucher avec moi, ce soir? Well, earworms mbt© has put this phenomena to positive use. Gone are the days of learning pressure and frustration at not being able to remember, the experience of many on conventional language courses. In combination with music, the phrases you need are automatically anchored deep into your memory, ready for instant recall.

Henry Jenkins' Blog: must read!

NYTimes article on the reversal of policy ideas by historian Diane Ravitch on education policies including NCLB, standardized testing, math/reading

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING: Incomplete draft of book prospectus that build on earlier work on John Locke's theory of property as forming the basis for distinguishing the intellectual properties of learning from other proprietary knowledge economies.

Incomplete draft of book prospectus that build on earlier work on John Locke's theory of property as forming the basis for distinguishing the intellectual properties of learning from other proprietary knowledge economies.