one time completed an end-of-term book review report by listening to an audio book instead of reading(mine was on Blair mountain). i did this 2 days before it was due. i ended up with an A, due to the commentaries i provided that listed my grievances on the lack of..... let's say *transitional* information on how the coal unions operated in West Virginia and the exact information on the battle of blare mountain. this book in question was not written by a single person, but by *Charles Rivers Editors*
Do you take notes in a notebook or do you write in the book? What other strategies do you recommend to memorize what you just read, and develop your own argument?
Thank you so much for this. I have adhd and I see reading for information similar to in high school when you were about to take a reading quiz but didnt read the chapter, the scrambling for data and sequence is something I, unfortunately, got very good at. Im about to start my first higher-level course so wish me and my two brain cells luck lol.
I had much much less to read...still couldn't do it. I'm soo lecdystic, it's insane. I'm glad I had a different sort of studies than history, so I could get lots of info through the lectures and practical workshop hours.
I sympathize as someone with a learning disability myself. One thing I used to do was use a program called Balabolka to have the text to speech engine read the stuff to me, and listen to it while going for a walk.
While you walk? How...does that work? Sometimes I used Claroread, but that wasn't always as useful, certainly not with things that were printed out. With word it worked perfect (though it was still a female Stephen Hawking that's hard to focus on sometimes), with PDF or scanned books (if you'd even scan them) not so much :-/ Mind me asking what your learning dysability is?? If I may so bold? :-/
I have ADHD, I made a video about it earlier on this channel. A couple things you can do: 1. request a digital version of the printed handouts (if you have a learning disability you can request this as an accessibility thing) 2. Scan and OCR those documents with a program like adobe acrobat When I listened to my books, Balabolka can export the text as a series of MP3s which I just transferred to my phone to listen to. Often there are audiobook apps that will keep your place or adjust playback speed to something you can focus on. You can get used to the robot voices! I hope these help, I hate hearing that a learning disability has held someone back from education they desire.
Thank you Tristan, that's very kind of you! My dyslexia has certainly held me back...but yea, life's not fair. Thank you for the information, who knows, it may well help :) Best of luck with your videos! Btw, how's that Catalonia's Anarchism government coming along??? wren't you going to make that one day? ;)
Helpful. Thank you!
This video was so helpful.
one time completed an end-of-term book review report by listening to an audio book instead of reading(mine was on Blair mountain). i did this 2 days before it was due.
i ended up with an A, due to the commentaries i provided that listed my grievances on the lack of..... let's say *transitional* information on how the coal unions operated in West Virginia and the exact information on the battle of blare mountain. this book in question was not written by a single person, but by *Charles Rivers Editors*
Do you take notes in a notebook or do you write in the book?
What other strategies do you recommend to memorize what you just read, and develop your own argument?
Thank you so much for this. I have adhd and I see reading for information similar to in high school when you were about to take a reading quiz but didnt read the chapter, the scrambling for data and sequence is something I, unfortunately, got very good at. Im about to start my first higher-level course so wish me and my two brain cells luck lol.
I had much much less to read...still couldn't do it. I'm soo lecdystic, it's insane.
I'm glad I had a different sort of studies than history, so I could get lots of info through the lectures and practical workshop hours.
I sympathize as someone with a learning disability myself. One thing I used to do was use a program called Balabolka to have the text to speech engine read the stuff to me, and listen to it while going for a walk.
While you walk? How...does that work? Sometimes I used Claroread, but that wasn't always as useful, certainly not with things that were printed out. With word it worked perfect (though it was still a female Stephen Hawking that's hard to focus on sometimes), with PDF or scanned books (if you'd even scan them) not so much :-/
Mind me asking what your learning dysability is?? If I may so bold? :-/
I have ADHD, I made a video about it earlier on this channel.
A couple things you can do:
1. request a digital version of the printed handouts (if you have a learning disability you can request this as an accessibility thing)
2. Scan and OCR those documents with a program like adobe acrobat
When I listened to my books, Balabolka can export the text as a series of MP3s which I just transferred to my phone to listen to. Often there are audiobook apps that will keep your place or adjust playback speed to something you can focus on. You can get used to the robot voices!
I hope these help, I hate hearing that a learning disability has held someone back from education they desire.
Thank you Tristan, that's very kind of you! My dyslexia has certainly held me back...but yea, life's not fair. Thank you for the information, who knows, it may well help :)
Best of luck with your videos! Btw, how's that Catalonia's Anarchism government coming along??? wren't you going to make that one day? ;)
Great video! I still need to get into the habit of doing this when I'm reading for classes.
It really helps. Reading a piece page by page actually will hurt you in getting the big picture.