How to Read a Book & Other Ideas – This week was all about reading and getting the most from it. Apparently Kevin Kelly the founder of Wired magazine had said that we are now in an age where we are moving from book literacy to screen literacy. As part of this we discussed the F pattern of eye movements when tracked across a screen. I always enjoy our group sessions and find the information from them really useful. I discovered that that there is something called ChatPdf which I would like to explore further. I would also like to try out ‘Voice Dream Reader’ and ‘Speechify’ which are text to audio generators. We also looked at the ‘Pomodoro’ technique as a way to approach the research for the research paper. An outline of how this technique should be used is summarised in the slide selection below. I intend to try this as I think it will be very helpful as both a time management and motivational tool. Perhaps the biggest takeaway for me this week though, was the notion of: ‘I feel’, ‘I wonder’, ‘I think’. I’d never ever thought about something in those terms before and this week […]
