Live Broadcast 32: GingerSoftware – Assistive Technology for Struggling Writers
Miki (Michal) Feldman-Simon, Vice President, U.S. Operations, Ginger Software Inc., will speak with us how struggling writers can use GingerSoftware. Miki has varied experience in education, entrepreneurship, and organization management and has lectured on these topics worldwide. Miki has worked with children as young as kindergarten to adults in various educational programs in Israel, Australia [...]
Live Broadcast 33: Structured Word Inquiry and the Scientific Study of Words
Peter Bowers of WordWorks Kingston will model and discuss an instructional approach called “structured word inquiry” that uses the linguistic tools of the word sum and the matrix to make sense of the spelling-meaning structure of words. Peter Bowers is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He [...]
Live Broadcast 34: How CogMed Trains Working Memory
Peter Entwistle, PhD will join us to discuss how CogMed improves working memory for better focus and attention. Dr. Entwistle is a Cogmed Consultant for Pearson. He is a psychologist and has worked for a number of entities including: The Psychological Corporation, University of Massachusetts-Boston Department of Counseling & School Psychology, Braintree Hospital and Scituate [...]
