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Keri-Lee Beasley

BeeLine Reader: BeeLine Reader adds a color gradient to text to help you read faster an... - 0 views

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    Great for people with dyslexia, this tool adds gradient to words/lines of text to help with the issue of accidentally skipping a line.
Sean McHugh

Children are suffering a severe deficit of play - Peter Gray - Aeon - 2 views

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      Including play in virtual spaces?
  • The golden rule of social play is not ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ Rather, it’s something much more difficult: ‘Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.’ To do that, you have to get into other people’s minds and see from their points of view. Children practise that all the time in social play.
  • Children also experience anger in their play. Anger can arise from an accidental or deliberate push, or a tease, or from failure to get one’s way in a dispute. But children who want to continue playing know they have to control that anger, use it constructively in self-assertion, and not lash out.
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  • where adults are in charge, they make decisions for children and solve children’s problems. In play, children make their own decisions and solve their own problems. In adult-directed settings, children are weak and vulnerable. In play, they are strong and powerful. The play world is the child’s practice world for being an adult.
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