Learning Recovery News
Aakash Odedra’s Inked & Murmur dances into identity issues at PuSh Festival 2016 The British artist explores his own dyslexia and a grandmother’s tattoos in a swirling multimedia program by Janet Smithon January 13th, 2016at 11:17 AM SHARED 1191 1 of 32 of 3 In the double bill Inked & Murmur, Aakash Odedra captures his …
Teaching with Tech: How iPads and Tablets Can Help Your Child Learn Screen time is a touchy subject for a lot of families, but that doesn’t mean technology is all bad. In fact, when it comes to reinforcing classroom learning, iPads and other tablet computers work wonders for students with ADHD. BY KAREN BARROW Meredith Soddy …
Exclusive: Less than one in 10 teachers set to use textbooks in most lessons by 2020 Helen Ward 29th September 2017 at 05:04 The Tes-YouGov findings follow calls from ministers to use textbooks more in class, in line with top-performing nations Fewer teachers are using textbooks in most of their lessons, and the number is set …
Students are doing more reading on digital devices than they ever have before. Not only are many teachers using tablets and computers for classroom instruction, but many state tests are now administered on computers, adding incentive for teachers to teach digital reading strategies. But casual digital reading on the internet has instilled bad habits in …
Students are doing more reading on digital devices than they ever have before Read More »
Growing up as the son of a famous author, Mark Thomas wanted nothing more than to follow in his footsteps. His dad, Leslie Thomas, was popular in the 1970s and 1980s and is best known for his comic novel The Virgin Soldiers. But from a young age, it became clear that Mark was going to …
Connecticut, USA is the first state in the nation to recognize e-sports, making student athletes out of a percentage of students that may often be overlooked. Jeffrey Lehmann, Shu Dong and Jaret Ostop said there was no such thing as an e-sports team when they entered Daniel Hand High School in Madison for the first …
By: SharpBrains ___ Limiting children’s screen time linked to better cognition, study says (CNN): “Limiting kids’ recreational screen time to less than two hours a day, along with sufficient sleep and physical activity, is associated with improved cognition, according to a study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. The study included about 4,500 US children ages 8 …
Elaine Aron has studied the highly sensitive person (HSP), an easily overaroused and overwhelmed individual who is sensitive and often anxious. Aron believes that evolution has favored the careful, reflective style that tends to accompany the highly aroused individual, and not high arousal itself. If understimulated and sometimes impulsive people like those with ADHD, live …
The environments children are in, including how much and what kinds of stimulation they are exposed to, influence what and how they learn. One important task for children is zeroing in on the information that’s relevant to what they’re learning and ignoring what isn’t. A new study has found that the presence of background noise …
Background speech hindered toddlers’ ability to learn words, according to a new study. Read More »
Stewart Segal, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, argues that schools can’t be experts in all types of FE provision – but a new national careers service would help In an announcement this week, the government has finally realised that it needs to strengthen its guidance to schools on careers information …
By Keith Budge Leading a school with a working farm and a strong tradition, not only in design but in doing and making, I am always keen to enter the fray when discussion turns to the ‘academic vs vocational’ debate, as happened with head teacher, Andrew Fleck’s comments, picked up late last year. It is …
‘Unworthy’ practical subjects are just as important as academic ones Read More »
Schools will be expected to take on apprentices in a bid to help the government to hit its target of 3 million such roles by 2020. Ministers today published a consultation document outlining its plans to lean on the public sector to take on more apprentices as part of its drive. Under the proposals, all …
State schools will be forced to give vocational routes as much weight as academic options when giving careers advice to their pupils. Ministers are plotting legislation that will attempt to overcome “outdated snobbery” against technical education and apprenticeships, according to the Independent on Sunday this morning. What form this legislation will take is unclear, although …
Schools to be forced by law to give equal weighting to vocational and academic routes Read More »
You don’t even need to lift a finger when you’re done playing Jeopardy! on Amazon Echo and want to relax with a book. Simply say “Alexa, read [Kindle book title],” and the voice assistant will start narrating almost anything you purchased from the Kindle Store, borrowed from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library/Kindle Unlimited or got …
Ann McGauran The head of Watford Grammar School for Girls said she would let girls “choose” their predicted A-level grades if other schools were “manipulating results”, official minutes show – raising questions about the role of teacher predictions in university entrance. But head of the school, Dame Helen Hyde, then told Schools Week she “would …
Schools ‘manipulate’ predicted grades, leading head claims Read More »
Despite the abundance of technology that I surround myself with (laptop, phone, second monitor, tablet, camera, ridiculously heavy and terrible iPad charger) the two tool that never outlive their welcome in my daily repertoire is a pen and notepad. I’ve tried using a whole range of different organization apps, to do lists on my phone …
Judging by the number of learning apps available to classrooms around the country, the education technology market aimed at elementary through high schools is booming. There are more than 3,900 math and reading apps, classroom management systems and other software services for schools in the United States, according to LearnTrials, a start-up that helps school …
A-levels are not the only route to university, with a range of alternative qualifications securing a degree place, says the admissions service, Ucas. Ucas urges parents and teachers to be more aware of other options, as rising numbers of students apply to university without the traditional three A-levels. Ucas figures show more UK students are …
A-levels are not the only route to university, says Ucas Read More »
Julie Login of Cass Business School surveyed a group of entrepreneurs and found that 35% of them said that they suffered from dyslexia, compared with 10% of the population as a whole and 1% of professional managers. Read more of this post by clicking the link below Source: www.businessinsider.com
The prevalence of dyslexia seems to be higher in individuals with a history of childhood physical abuse, according to a study published online June 30 in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Esme Fuller-Thomson, PhD, from the University of Toronto, and Stephen R. Hooper, PhD, from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel …
Physical Abuse as an ‘add-on’ factor in Dyslexia Read More »
LOCAL boy Josiah Quinn, 9, is learning to overcome dyslexia with the help of an alternative program. His mum Mel Quinn said since completing the 11-week program through Australian company Cellfield, Josiah’s overall performance and learning at school had improved. He has increased all aspects of fluency and comprehension by over one year and some …
Internationally renowned mosaic artists are lending a hand to help Newport celebrate Big Splash 2014. Travelling across Ireland, Wales, the Bahamas, and Chile, Newport mosaic artist Stephanie Roberts has been on quite a journey with her creative skills. Reporter SOPHIE BROWNSON finds out more. I was born in Londonderry, Ireland on July 11, 1972, and …
We learned a couple of weeks ago that Steven Spielberg would finally move ahead with a couple of projects with two 2016 release dates already penciled in. As we wait to see what the future holds for the iconic director, let’s hear the director take a look back at his own life. Movies.com unearthed a video from 2012 where Spielberg …
CHANGE: Olivia Loder wants to make a change to state school education for youngsters with dyslexia. AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl from Dorking who was bullied because of her dyslexia has asked the Education Secretary for better teacher training to help other youngsters – and received a reply. Before moving to specialist school Moon Hall College …
Dorking girl, 11, asks Michael Gove to do more for dyslexic pupils Read More »
SIR Paul Smith will open an event at the University of Derby to raise awareness of dyslexia. The celebrated fashion designer, who is dyslexic himself, will attend the event which has been organised by student Sarah Chapman who is also dyslexic. The free one-day event hopes to highlight the strengths people with dyslexia can have, …
Sir Paul Smith to open dyslexia event at the University of Derby. Read More »
You’re on the road and suddenly you receive an urgent email that you must answer immediately. What do you do? You take out your smartphone/tablet and write an answer. But what if you are dyslexic and must have a writing assistant to help produce clear and error-free text? If you are an Android smartphone/tablet owner, …
Ghotit Releases the first Android Writing & Reading Solution for People with Dyslexia. Read More »
In people with dyslexia, less grey matter in the brain has been linked to reading disabilities, but new evidence suggests this is a consequence of poorer reading experiences and not the root cause of the disorder. A study compared a group of dyslexic children with two different control groups – an age-matched group included in …
A NEW application has been developed to help dyslexic and visually impaired train passengers. Southern and Gatwick Express have launched the app on their websites – www.southernrailway.com and www.gatwickexpress.com – which is designed to help users access content with much more ease. The system, called Recite, allows those with visual impairment and/or dyslexia to customise …
New app launched for dyslexic and visually impaired rail users. Read More »
We are a reading family. Each one of us, at any given time, is in the middle of two or three books. Over winter break, I read historical fiction and short stories. Cooper polished off three novels, all with some sort of fantasy or science fiction element. Katie immersed herself in realistic fiction with a …
As the trend of e-readers is getting popular, researchers at the Smithsonian have discovered that people with dyslexia can read more easily and quickly and with greater comprehension from a e- reader as they can be set up to display only very words per line. This finding was published in journal PLOS ONE in September, …