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