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in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!
It is funny you guys are discussing this topic. I have been an English teacher for the past thirteen years. I teach English 10A right now, but earlier in my career, I helped kids in special education with autism and also dyslexia. I found a game called “Phonopoly” which re-trains the human brain to use both hemispheres to read instead of just one in a matter of 5-16 hours of playing.
We have been taught to “memorize” words traditionally in our school systems. This game teaches an illiterate person (child or adult) to read after simply learning 40 sounds and a handful of rules, instead of memorization.
Have you ever gotten sleepy or tired or bored while reading? That’s known as the “Sleepy-tired Syndrome”, which is eliminated in just a couple of games.
I have seen it change lives in a matter of hours.
Our minds are amazing tools if we learn how to use them as they were designed to be used.
I’m working on a curriculum at my school, where I can teach Surfboard Design and Board Building in the classroom, and then the kids can go to my shop which is literally 2 blocks away, to prove what they’ve learned by making a board of their own.
Thanks for the post… and to answer your question, yes, Spell Checking is overrated. However, it is nice to get a spell checked essay from my students as opposed to some that look like your scrambled-word paragraph in the original post!
Yeah, I could read that no problem, but then I’m good at anagrams and “jumbles”.
Its that non-linearity that makes something like visualizing what’s going on with water flow on a board through all phases of motion a snap, but pecking out these letters a rael pane…