These Books will Inspire Kids of All Ages!

How Books Will Become Machines

We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of technological evolutionary dynamics is still in its infancy. We are missing the equivalent of a Darwinian Theory of Evol...

Reading children's books to awe and inspire nursing students.

Reading illustrated children's books in the classroom to nursing students is 1 way to inspire students to be great nurses. After offering guidelines for the types of books to use and the courses books can be used in, the author describes the effects on student learning.

Readability and Reading Ages in school books

Introduction When writing a textbook, a work-sheet or an examination paper, an author is intent on transmitting information to the reader. How well the author succeeds will depend on the readability of the text. Readability is concerned with the problem of matching between reader and text. An accomplished reader is likely to be bored by simple repetitive texts. A poor reader will soon become di...

The Kids Aren't All Right.

Governor signs "Cover All Kids" legislation.