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Jamin Henley

Can E-Books Make Society and Education Better? | Online Universities - 15 views

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shared by Jamin Henley on 30 May 12 - No Cached
  • 65% of college freshmen read for pleasure for less than an hour per week or not at all
  • The percentage of non-readers among these students has nearly doubled—climbing 18 points since they graduated from high school
  • By the time they become college seniors, one in three students read nothing at all for pleasure in a given week.
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  • Not reading won’t kill you, but it will also make you a less interesting, engaged, and intellectual person
  • reading literature also helps to develop an individual’s emotional literacy
  • Reading about an event or the inner working of someone else’s mind or emotions stimulates the human brain to experience those same feelings or to essentially have the same experience in terms of memory that they would have if they actually did the activity or experienced the emotions themselves
  • The main activity of a college education is critical thinking and intellectual engagement: most of the background work for this endeavor is done through reading
  • Ubiquitous video, or some other information technology, may one day overtake the written word as the foundation of our literacy, but for the moment, reading and writing are the keys to full and fruitful participation in human society
  • Jamin Henley on 30 May 12
     
    As recently as 2007, there was note of an alarming trend of young people not reading
Donna Baumbach

100 Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves + Natives (Part 1) | Ozge Karaog... - 0 views

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09
     
    "We are our stories, we compress years of experience, thought and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves" Daniel Pink, a Whole New Wind
Cathy Oxley

The key to media's hidden codes - Ben Beaton - YouTube - 13 views

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shared by Cathy Oxley on 16 May 14 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 16 May 14
     
    "Colors, camera angles and logos in the media can all prompt immediate associations with emotions, activities and memories. Learn to decode the intricate system of symbols that are a part of everyday life -- from media messages to traffic signs. Lesson by Ben Beaton, animation by TED-Ed."
James Whittle

The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction - NYTimes.com - 28 views

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neuroscience fiction reading

shared by James Whittle on 14 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • James Whittle on 14 Feb 13
     
    "AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected quarter: neuroscience. Brain scans are revealing what happens in our heads when we read a detailed description, an evocative metaphor or an emotional exchange between characters. Stories, this research is showing, stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life."
sudhirmemoria

Tips to Improve Your Child's Reading at Home - Sudhir Memorial Institute Liluah - Best ... - 1 views

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shared by sudhirmemoria on 17 May 18 - No Cached
  • sudhirmemoria on 17 May 18
     
    Reading is essential, indispensable and crucial. It bears immense impact on your child's emotional and intellectual development. Parents also have a huge role on how swiftly their child learns to read.
puzznbuzzus

Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...

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Kathleen Porter

A New Annotated Guide to Young People's Literature with Peacemaking and Confl... - 0 views

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shared by Kathleen Porter on 06 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Book by Book: An Annotated Guide to Young People’s Literature with Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Themes is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, guidance counselors, and parents to find books to complement the standard language arts curriculum for teaching important peacemaking and social and emotional learning concepts.  Written by a veteran peace educator, Book by Book leads adults to children’s literature that will help students explore themes related to conflict and its resolution, social justice, and appreciation for diversity.
  • About the author Carol Spiegel
  • Click here to download a supplemental index in PDF.
  • Kathleen Porter on 06 Jul 10
     
    See Supplemental Index PDF for a list of titles organized by topic. Distinguishes picture books from chapter books and gives age ranges.
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