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10 Tech Tools for Writers - 0 views

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Super ideas for writing

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Beyond 'turn it off': How to advise families on media use - 0 views

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New look at screentime from American Association of Paediatrics - finally.

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Empowering Students Through Multimedia Storytelling | Edutopia - 0 views

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Storytelling can change perceptions and improve empathy.

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Makerbook - The best free resources for creatives. - 0 views

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"A hand-picked directory of the best resources for creatives"

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Free Stock Photos: 74 Best Sites To Find Awesome Free Images - Design School - 0 views

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Huge round up of free or Creative Commons licensed images

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Can Atomic Be Google Docs For Designers? | Co.Design | business + design - 0 views

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Collaborative tool for designers - how cool is that?

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We Are Conflicted: It IS About the Technology | maelstrom - 0 views

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Some very interesting points raised about teaching in this digital age.

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11 Quotes that Inspire Writers Workshop Lessons and Activities - 1 views

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Some rich writing lessons here. Engaging

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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.

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Using Technology to Break the Speed Barrier of Reading - Scientific American - 0 views

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Unfortunately, the system of reading we inherited from the ancient scribes —the method of reading you are most likely using right now — has been fundamentally shaped by engineering constraints that were relevant in centuries past, but no longer appropriate in our information age.
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search for innovative engineering solutions aimed at making reading more efficient and effective for more people
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But then, by chance, I discovered that when I used the small screen of a smartphone to read my scientific papers required for work, I was able to read with much greater facility and ease.
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hen, in a comprehensive study of over 100 high school students with dyslexia done in 2013, using techniques that included eye tracking, we were able to confirm that the shortened line formats produced a benefit for many who otherwise struggled with reading.
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For example, Marco Zorzi and his colleagues in Italy and France showed in 2012 that when letter spacing is increased to reduce crowding, children with dyslexia read more effectively.
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A clever web application called Beeline Reader, developed by Nick Lum, a lawyer from San Francisco, may accomplish something similar using colors to guide the reader’s attention forward along the line.  Beeline does this by washing each line of text in a color gradient, to create text that looks a bit like a tie-dyed tee-shirt.
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one aims to increase the throughput of the brain’s reading buffers by changing their capacity for information processing, while the other seeks to activate alternate channels for reading that will allow information to be processed in parallel, and thereby increase the capacity of the language processing able to be performed during reading. 
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The brain is said to be plastic, meaning that it is possible to change its abilities.
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people can be taught to roughly double their reading speed, without compromising comprehension.
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Consider that we process language, first and foremost, through speech. And yet, in the traditional design of reading we are forced to read using our eyes. Even though the brain already includes a fully developed auditory pathway for language, the traditional design for reading makes little use of the auditory processing capabilities of the brain
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While the visual pathways are being strained to capacity by reading, the auditory network for language remains relatively under-utilized.
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Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper.
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Keri-Lee Beasley on 12 Sep 15

"Importantly, our early indications suggest that the least effective method of reading may be the one society has been clinging to for centuries: reading on paper."

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Viewing Art to Start Students Reading | 4 O'Clock Faculty - 1 views

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Replacing written text with artwork, photographs, or illustrations offers a number of advantages, especially early in the school year.  Visual imagery is very accessible and a lot less intimidating to a wide range of learners including non-readers, struggling readers, and English language learners. This enables these students a greater chance to practice some of the forms of complex thinking that they will need as the year progresses such as using text evidence, identifying theme, and making connections.
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Another advantage the visual imagery has over written text is that it is very fast to decode.
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Artworks can and should be treated just as a written text. By doing so, students can get their academic thinking started early, laying a foundation for them to build on throughout their school year.
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Keri-Lee Beasley on 09 Sep 15

Interesting blog post advocating for the use of analysing images in support of literacy skills.

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Using New Technology to Rediscover Traditional Ways of Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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Mobile tech helps us reconnect with traditional ways of learning: Oral storytelling Visual literacy Gestures, dance & the body

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