Gallery[PREMIUM] Forgetting Can Make You Smarter
In a viral video shared on our Facebook feed, Truth Theory shared the gist of a recent research report in the prestigious journal Neuron. There may be good reason why researchers’ new understanding of memory might make sense for many dyslexic people and why it may explain the perplexing memory challenges that many dyslexic students […]
[PREMIUM] Additional Resources from Premium Issue 26
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GalleryTeaching Strategies for Dyslexia: Discovery Learning and Learning By Exceptions
Many students with dyslexia thrive with discovery-based learning and learning from exceptions.
Learning from first-hand experiences stimulates personal memory, motivation (novelty), and inductive learning.
Why Discovery-Based Learning Works for Many Dyslexic Learners
stimulates personal or autobiographical memory
increases motivation, novel experiences
ideal for inductive learners – those who learn from first-hand experiences and remember exceptions more than ‘rules’
link knowledge […]
GallerySCIENCE: THE BALANCING ACT OF LITERACY
Dr. Stanislaus Dehaene is a French researcher who has authored Reading and the Brain. He and his research team conducted some interesting investigations into Portuguese and Brazilian adults who they classified into 3 groups: unschooled adults (referred to as ‘illiterate’), adult-onset readers (‘ex-illiterate’), or schooled child-onset readers (‘literate’).
What the researchers found was that people […]
GalleryDROPPING OUT BECAUSE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE [Premium]
At Harvard University in the 1970’s, a clinical psychologst made a startling discovery. Intending on studying the emotional problems that caused students at one of the world’s elite universities to drop out of school to drop out, he found out instead that the most common reason students dropped out of their degree programs was that […]
GalleryACTING WITH DYSLEXIA
There are some dyslexic children who seem to be natural actors and actresses at early ages and their talent and imitating the gestures, voices, and personalities of others seems almost from birth. What are the strengths and talents that make so many dyslexic people talented actresses and actors? For some it may be emotional […]
