Tag: learning difference
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DRAFT: Insights — Archimedes
This section repeats one of the most famous examples of insight that we have. It is an excellent example of how astonishingly non-linear insights can be! But is it a too much of stretch of you scientific side to understand why Archimedes was successful? Let me know what is confusing, please.
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DRAFT: Insights — How Thinking Outside the Box Works
Insights are bizarre. Have I explained how this process works clearly?
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DRAFT Creativity — Pattern Recognition
One of the biggest strengths of neurodivergent people, including dyslexics, is their ability to see patterns where the rest of us see static. But I want everybody to be able to see at least some of the patterns that I present. What do you see?
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DRAFT Creativity — Gist
The ladies in my writing group tell me that the last four pages (two spreads) are a little confusing. Is it confusing for you? What can I do to make them more clear?
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DRAFT Thinking Differently — Big Picture
Is it too upsetting to see Zara fail again? It’s a common situation for people with dyslexia, and I don’t want to trigger anybody. But we need to see her fail to see her succeed later.
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DRAFT How We Learn — … and Reading Takes More Energy
We are at the half-way point in the graphic novel. I’ve intentionally kept the sections coming at a fast pace so that you can get a feel for what the GN will be like as a book. How does it feel? Are you lost at this point? What could be made more clear? Less boring?
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DRAFT How We Learn — For People With Dyslexia, Reading Is Hard Work …
This section was a lot of fun to write. Then I stepped back and looked at the story it was telling about people with dyslexia — it is hard to read slowly. Dyslexics: Please tell me if this is too painful to read. Hopefully fluent readers will have a better understanding of the troubles dyslexics…
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DRAFT How We Learn — Some People Have Trouble Learning Reading Scripts
This is the next baby step in where the process of learning to read goes wrong. Am I belaboring the point?
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DRAFT How We Learn — Steps to Scripts
This time when I present how we learn, I point out the individual steps we all go through to learn a script like reading, opening the refrigerator or driving a car. I go back and forth with myself as to if this is too much detail. It sure feels like it, but in the next…
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DRAFT How We Learn — Scripts Let us Take Short-cuts
How the two sides of the brain process information while they learn a task is central to dyslexia. But it is also rather abstract. Because of that, I go over it several times in the graphic novel. Here is the first time I present How We Learn. Is it clear that once you learn a…