Jan 13, 2010 | DM News Blog
I just found this blog post by a personal tutor, describing a revelation about the destructive effect of stress on the learning process. It sounds like it was a painful lesson to learn, but I’m sure his students are better off for...
Dec 2, 2009 | DM News Blog
I found this website earlier; it’s run by a woman called Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord, who teaches kids to make books. There are lots of free activities on the site, as well as book recommendations, ideas and tips. A really inspiring...
Dec 2, 2009 | DM News Blog
I’ve just been reading about an initiative being run in rural Niger which uses mobile phones as a tool to aid in increasing adult literacy. The scheme is called IMAC (Information sur les Marchés Agricoles par Cellulaire), and it allows users to access information...
Dec 2, 2009 | DM News Blog
I happened upon an article earlier this week about a literacy-promotion scheme which I’d never heard of before. It’s called Reach Out and Read, and its mission is to make literacy promotion a standard part of paediatric primary care, by training doctors and nurses to...
Nov 26, 2009 | DM News Blog
Iansyst, a Cambridge-based company specialising in assistive technologies for conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, is currently running the 2009 iansyst Dyslexia-Friendly Best Practice Award, a competition aimed at recognising and celebrating best...
