Posted on 25 May, 2008 by lexify
It’s Marilyn [left] . That’s clear. What you may find hard to believe is the size. She’s standing on a diamond: see image [right] for scale!
The man who does these sculptures is another successful dyslexic: Willard Wigan. See the blog at the BBC, which starts:
When Willard Wigan, who has dyslexia, started school in 1962, he [...]
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Posted on 23 May, 2008 by lexify
It’s nice to see “word blindness” in the pages of someone who sells helpful products! – it makes you feel they know what the problems are like. And so, without having in any way assessed Dyslexia Manual Games we report on something which could, actually, be the Dyslexia Games Manual!Teaching Expertise sells it, and wrote [...]
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Posted on 19 May, 2008 by lexify
There’s a thoughtful comment in the Economist by (as usual) an anonymous correspondent seriously suggesting that:
Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more [...]
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