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Forbes

Cutting-Edge Schools Show How Education Is Everyone's Business

As the internet has transformed the way we communicate, we need educational technology to transform the way students learn and teachers teach.

The Guardian

Now the keyboard can be all fingers and thumbs

"They learn to touch-type, but they also learn to spell in a multisensory way," says Sue Atwood, deputy head at Lessness Heath primary school in the London borough of Bexley. "They can hear the words over headphones and make the words on the screen. It also helps a child's self-confidence when they go to the computer, even when they are doing things like creative writing because, once they can touch-type, the ideas can flow."

Dyslexia in the Digital Age: Making IT Work

Phonics and typing skills – Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) uses the principles of Hornsby and Shear’s Alpha to Omega to provide a keyboard skills program.

Homeschooling with Dyslexia

Homeschool Curriculum Picks for our Family With Dyslexia

TTRS teaches touch-typing skills in ways that also help kids improve their reading and spelling. It does that, in part, by having kids drill with actual, carefully selected words (red-led-fed), rather than purely mechanical keystroke combinations (juj-kik-lol, etc.).

Independent.ie

World of work: Learning curve

Sean Carthy says he never imagined he would end up doing what he’s doing now — helping children with dyslexia and learning difficulties improve their literacy and computer skills.