Learning Through Listening in the Digital World

Read this mulitmedia paper to learn about the complex steps the brain goes through to decipher and process the many messages it receives from the ears. The paper includes video clips of examples and the author explaining some of the concepts in the paper, which helps to bring the paper alive for the reader. Note that there are several links to external websites throughout this paper.

Plato Revisited: Learning Through Listening in the Digital World
David Rose and Bridget Dalton
CAST, Inc.
Paper prepared for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
January 9, 2007
Contact: David Gordon, dgordon@cast.org, 781-245-2212

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Plato Revisited: Learning Through Listening in the Digital World
• How New Technologies are Changing our View of What Listening is
• How New Technologies are Changing the Relationship Between Literacy and Listening
• How New Technologies are Changing What a Literacy Program Should Be
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
• References
• Table 1

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