"We're superhuman, we just can't spell" : using the affordances of an online social network to motivate learning through literacy in dyslexic sixth-form students

This is a study of the use of Facebook as an educational resource by five dyslexic students at a Sixth Form College in north-west England. Through a project in which teacher-researcher and student-participants co-constructed a Facebook group page about the students' scaffolded research into dys...

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Main Author: Barden, Owen
Other Authors: Davies, Julia
Published: University of Sheffield 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557452