Category Archives: education
The Right to Education – Sud Academy’s Case Study. Please Help!
Note: This is a guest post by Kellee Jacobs. Kellee has been working for the past year at the Sud Academy in Nairobi. Her experiences have been enlightening, but now she needs our help. Please contact her at kelleejacobs[at]gmail[dot]com if … Continue reading
Filed under development, education, human rights
A Response to the Luddite Literati
The article Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind where Mark Bauerlein asks us to “restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms” reminds me of one of the oldest jokes in the book. You know the one – a man walks … Continue reading
Filed under education, internet, Reading, technology
E-Textbooks May Not Make Economic Sense for Students … or do they???
There was an interesting article in yesterday’s LA Time’s that gives a timely perspective on the proliferation of e-textbooks in the student market. The crux of the argument is that e-textbooks, although half the price of print textbooks, may actually … Continue reading
Filed under digital publishing, education, Reading, technology
The E-Book Revolution
There has been a lot of speculation recently regarding the future of e-books and whether they are going to be the next big thing. What we do know at this point is that Amazon has sold 240, 000 Kindles. Given … Continue reading
Filed under digital publishing, education, Reading, technology
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
Motoko Rich of the New York Times recently released the first of what will be a series of articles addressing online reading and the movement away from traditional forms of reading (i.e. books, newspapers, journals). I won’t go into a … Continue reading
Filed under digital publishing, education, internet, Reading, Spreed
Michael Tipper, Speed Reading Professional on the Topic of Spreed
Below is a link to a fantastic article about Spreed written by Michael Tipper a professional speed reading coach based out of the UK. Michael sums up spreed perfectly and has put together an instructional video on how to read … Continue reading
Is our reading behaviour changing? Search me…
For a few years now there have been various journal papers and blog articles positing the theory that our reading behaviour, that of the so-called Google Generation, is changing to adapt to the medium of the internet, some say becoming … Continue reading
The Zen of Spreed
As a long time tester and now user of Spreed I’d like to share some personal observations about my own learning curve with Spreed. When I read I notice that I can hear in my “mind’s ear” the words as … Continue reading
A Response to: Faster is Smarter?
The wording of Anthony’s title as an interrogative suggests an openness to the debate on the topic of speed reading. This is good news because there will be lots of differing views. However, at this time, instead of discussing the … Continue reading
Filed under education, General, Reading, technology
