Posted in Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Jan 22nd, 2014 2 Comments »
Ghotit, a software company that makes an integrated spell-checking program with an imbedded dictionary and word prediction capability, was founded by people with dyslexia and made for people with dyslexia or related print struggles. They’ve now made their programs avaiable for the Android operating system.
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Headquartered near Aspen, Colorado, WonderWorx is a creative enterprise for design entrepreneur, Robert Tobias. His previous venture, which was an Aspen landmark and destination for decades, was a gallery called Waterfall Hope that marketed avant-garde, creative works from the world of arts and crafts. WonderWorx® products may be utilized as unique, effective, powerful, therapeutic devices [...]
Posted in Learning Materials, News on Dec 29th, 2012 No Comments »
An Ingenious Kids’ Seat That Encourages Interaction What I love about this article is the idea of involving kids in design work. Design and production are hard skills that are valuable in and of themselves and also provide interesting and motivating ways to learn about other things such as math concepts and applications.
Posted in Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 6th, 2012 No Comments »
Ghotit is a company founded by people with dyslexia and they have improved upon their spell checker and word prediction product for both Mac OS and Windows. By having an expanded set of rules that includes a wider range of spelling errors, Ghotit appears to work better for those with severe spelling errors than say, [...]
Posted in Learning Materials, Reading, Writing, and Math, Technology Issues and Ideas on May 5th, 2012 5 Comments »
As this article reminds us, the more kids have access to cool tools like iPads, Kindles and the like, and the more they can use embedded features that help them past momentary decoding hurdles, the more level the playing field. When kids use devices that everyone else uses, there’s no stigma. What students with learning [...]
Posted in Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, Low Tech Tools on Feb 21st, 2012 2 Comments »
photo from www.fastcodesign.com From Good.is:  Can Better Designed Classroom Furniture Help Students Who Can’t Sit Still? A Dutch architectural company has been trying to help fidgety kids concentrate better with their modular furniture design. Simplistic? Perhaps. Worth considering? Definitely. They’ve designed stylish furniture for a school that is specifically for students with LD and concentration [...]
Posted in Books and Videos, Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, News, Technology Issues and Ideas on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Apple’s Entrance into Digital Textbooks: revolutionary? Apple announced its entrance into digital textbooks, now selling through its iTunes and iBooks online. Though this has been somewhat expected, it’s exciting news. Believe me, this is not even the tip of the iceberg. I’ve already downloaded samples of the 8 textbooks listed in the iBooks store. While [...]
Posted in Colleges, Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
wohnai/flickr From Good.is The average community college student in Washington spends about $1,200 per year on textbooks. I know that as a society we’re probably in the infancy of this movement to digitize textbooks and in a variety of ways, bring down the costs of textbooks to students. I don’t understand how they deal with [...]
Posted in Computers and Software, Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 31st, 2011 2 Comments »
Image: Courtesy of Christian Boer I’ve heard of this before and can’t quite make up my mind about it. This article in Scientific American describes a typographic font created by a graphic designer from the Netherlands, that supposedly makes reading print easier for some people with dyslexia. I suppose if it’s helpful to some then [...]