AT reading tools, or text-to-speech tools, include hardware and software designed to make text-based materials more accessible for individuals who experience difficulty with reading. ... How Text-to-Speech Works Text to speech technology scans words from electronic sources, or scanned documents, and "reads" them aloud via synthesized voices. ... This convection reduces the LD student's frequency to skip words or misread written text. ... Portable text readers can be used in the school's library to assist a student in reading. ... A text-to-speech tool might actually slo...

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Description of Topic: Should the Bible be used as a text of reference in an educational setting? Some would say that the Bible is an acceptable text to use in the classroom, while others would argue that the separation of church and state applies to the classroom as well. ... Academic Context In this essay, I will discuss why the Bible should be used in schools as a credible text that can be referenced by students. ... I plan on referencing multiple studies, which will show that educators believe that it is good to reference all texts, not just the most popular. ... Rationale for Research Peop...

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The high emotion can be sensed throughout the text; this seems to be Carson's point by letting us into her thoughts. ... Although Carson does not have a text entitled education, I do gather she likes to read and she uses wording to show her intellectuality throughout her text. ... " Anne Carlson and Paulo Freire have shown to be compassionate and emotional based writers in their texts. ... These texts should be read more than once by readers to get a better understanding of what the author is trying to convey. These are not simple texts to read and require inquiry for sure when re...

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This means that all the students listen to one text at the same time. ... A further method of assessment is to use a recorded text as the basis for speaking activity. ... An alternative is to collect in answers to reading texts and mark them yourself. ... Answering a few questions about a text does not give reliable information about overall understanding of it. For e.g. students can read a letter and then write a reply to it or read a text and role-play a situation from it. ...

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The SQ3R combined with the note packet complement can enhance learning quality, and there are significant relationships between text reading and overall collage grade point average, that is to say, good learning strategies such as SQ3R improve retention. Firstly, there are significant relationships between text reading and overall collage grade point average. ... Related to the students' problems in comprehending the text, SQ3R seems to be a potential solution as it provides the students with a structured reading strategy which can help them comprehend the text. ...

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Communication Arts incorporates logical competencies and wholesome attitudes and values that penetrate in the language trend. When the learner started to learn language, they are being exposed to the experiences that will enrich their logical system and competencies in English. In communication arts...

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I HAVE THE ABILITY TO USE NOTES TO HIGHLIGHT MAIN POINTS OF GIVEN ASSIGNMENTS, AS WELL AS, CREATING SHORT SUMMARIES FROM TEXT USING MY OWN WORDS. ... FOR, EXAMPLE I PERSONALLY CAN AWAYS FIND SOME METHOD TO OBTAINING AND STORING NECESSARY INFORMATION, BUT STRUGGLE GREATLY WITH SEPARATING OUT CRITICAL INFORMATION THROUGHOUT TEXT ASSIGNMENTS. ...

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Northern Caribbean University College of Education and Religion Department of Education MTED 201: Primary Mathematics Methods Factors that influence how children learn Psychological influences Professional influences Technological influences Language influences Societal influences Research influences Psychological influences: The essence of this theory is students construct their own understanding of math ideas (by interacting with physical models of these ideas). Professional influences: Its emphasis is back to the basics, the 3 R's were emphasized (reading, wr...

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This paper presents work that has been done over a number of years on the concept of 'recontextualisation, examining at a micro-level (rather than a transnational level) examples of everyday print and digital texts ' in New Zealand and South Africa. ... The author states that as texts are recontextualised time and space become important dimensions of analysis. ... Retrieved from Education Full Text database The author's belief is that 'instructional leadership alone is not enough if we are serious about a democracy where each and every child has meaningful opportuniti...

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The basic nature of learning is linking new information to prior knowledge about the text. ... Students are measured by letter identification, word test, concepts of print, writing vocabulary, hearing sounds in words and text reading level. ... The reading instruction focuses on the connected text not segmented skills. ... It is during the actual reading of increasingly less predictable text that Reading Recovery teachers guide children to consider multiple sources of information in thoughtful and flexible ways as they monitor the child's reading and solves emerging problems. ... Te...

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Guided reading is next during the reading workshop, and during guided reading, I will select a text to introduce to the students while working on one of the comprehension strategies or concepts that they need to know in the first grade, such as character traits. ... In my classroom, I will be reading fiction, nonfiction, narrative, and expository texts. ... K-W-L charts are great to get the students brainstorming, especially when non-fiction texts are being used. ... I will teach my students how to use their schema to create new ideas and answer questions they may have about the text. ... Th...

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Practice Regents Exam (Part A) Good evening ladies and gentlemen of the Board of Education. Thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to listen to my proposal. I believe it is important to provide personal copies of assigned novels for students to keep. There are many arguments in favor o...

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Due to the excessive amounts of emailing, instant messaging, and texting, students' writing skills have declined tremendously as it is believed they have virtually forgotten. ... One example of how students can work towards grade-level reading skills is by using computer programs that either read the text digitally or present it at a lower grade level for students with reading disabilities or visual impairments. ...

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Whenever anyone is passionate about something, they tend to be persuasive, trying to make others feel the way they do. Freire is very passionate about his beliefs on education, and it is apparent in his writing. His entire writing was about how one person (a teacher) should not have more power or...

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The text, graphics, video, and audio encourage immersion in language. ... Recognising the importance of determining how instructional technology can fulfil instructional goals, point out that the blending of technological and pedagogical advancements has elevated the importance of research on electronic student dialogue, text conferencing, information sharing, and other forms of collaboration. ...

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What Does Research Say About Assessment? Assessment is any method used to better understand the current knowledge that a student possesses. This implies that assessment can be as simple as a teacher's subjective judgment based on a single observation of student performance, or as complex as a fiv...

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The chapter described how learning sciences perspective has developed from the behaviourist models into the emergence of interdisciplinary field of cognitive sciences to the rise of computer technology as a platform to help children learn. The chapter also discussed several research findings and the...

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Content Area Paper Reading in the subject area of math can be difficult for students to understand at times. Similarly to other subjects, in math, students should have an opportunity to be taught using methods that make the information comprehensible to them. The background and capabil...

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In Experience and Education (1939/1991), Dewey wrote, "the immediate and direct concern of an educator is with the situations in which interaction takes place" (Dewey 1938) Dewey writes of a "new education,"" wherein, rather than learning from "texts and teachers,"" students learn from experience and there is "active participation by the students in the development of what is taught."" ...

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There are many times in our life it happens that we completely change our mind just because we get so much influenced by our surroundings. Cultural influence, social expectation, plays a huge role in people's growth and development. Now a day's television medium also plays a very important role when...

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If an instructor is in front of the class giving a lecture and showing a powerpoint, with text, pictures, etc, and I'm taking notes, writing down exactly what I'm seeing and hearing, it helps me understand the material being taught more efficiently. ...

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The purpose of frameworks in education is to offer a combination of options to assist instructors in designing a course. The author of our text book speaks of three different frameworks that can be used to design a course. Each framework focuses on something different than the other; however, they a...

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Sir Ken Robinson is an English author, speaker and committed supporter of education and the arts. He has been writing educational books since 1977 and contributes very respected texts in the study of art education. "Out of Our Minds" is a book promoting creativity in the work place. Robinson discuss...

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Adult Learning 1 Education and the Adult Learner Adult Learning 2 Education, can you ever have enough? It would seem that in today's world the answer to that question is no. With technology growing by l...

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This essay will look at the impact and usefulness of learning styles and theories in teaching and learning. It will highlight some of the key features of such concepts, assess their strengths and weaknesses, look at how they are actually used and explore the relationship between them. Generally, lea...

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