You know how science works: some studies say that video games are bad and some studies say that playing games "drastically improve the reading abilities of children with dyslexia." Who can you trust?
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MyScript Calculator, a free app for any device, that can level the playing field in math!
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April 22, 3:13 PM
Paul Hamilton has shared another great app that can take your handwriting of numbers and equations into digital text. Here is just a few comments that Paul made when testing it out: "I’ve only tested it with my finger, not a stylus, but the app has no difficulty understanding my rather large and somewhat messy scrawl. The calculator works just as well for basic computation as it does for more complex mathematics."
A video is including that shows how it is used on an Android.
Thank you Paul for introducing this great app that can level the playing field! 
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I saw this today and was completely blown away. I'll write a blog post about it sometime soon. Definitely check this out... Delete the scoop?
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A+ Click is a free site full of online mathematics games for students at all grade levels. You can find games on A+ Click by selecting a grade level then selecting a topic. Alternatively, you select just a topic or just a grade level and browse through all of the games. Students do not need to register in order to play the games. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , Tom Perran Delete the scoop?
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Caution needed here! Who was it that said that to every complex problem there was a solution that was simple, inexpensive, easy to implement and wrong? If it seems to good to be true--it probably is!
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"The University of Padua published a paper on Thursday entitled, "Action Video Games Make Dyslexic Children Read Better." The study claims to "demonstrate that only 12 hr of playing action video games—not involving any direct phonological or orthographic training—drastically improve the reading abilities of children with dyslexia."
In the experiment, kids between 7-13 were separated into two groups. The first group had nine 80-minute sessions with Rayman Raving Rabbids, while the second group played a more subdued game. After this, the kids' reading skills were tested and those who played Rayman Raving Rabbids were able to read faster and more accurately than the other group. This certainly does seem like a strange correlation, but we're interested to learn more about how games might help kids with reading problems."