Why

Why should my learners use the Click and Listen tool or its counterpart in docReader? These tools allow learners to click on a paragraph and have that paragraph read to them.  Using this tool makes it easy for learners to return to material they didn’t understand the first time and re-listen to it. Or, the learner may only want to consume small bites of information at a time. Learners may want to read a paragraph and think about its meaning before going on to the next paragraph, especially if the material is difficult to understand.

Who

The "Who" question is answered by observing your learners and identifying your struggling learners.  These learners may be trying to digest too much information at one time and need to chunk the material.  The "Click and Listen" tool allows learners to do so.

What

What are the benefits to the learners? The learners are now chunking material and can take notes on it before moving on. In a previous lesson, we talked about bimodal learning. This combination of methods is trimodal or multi-modal learning. The learners see and read the paragraph, hear it read to them while they read, and then write their notes. So, the learners have used three senses: sight, hearing, and touch—the more senses involved in learning, the higher the retention rate of the material. 

How

This functionality is available in both webReader and docReader; however, it's slightly different.  Let's look at each.

webReader

docReader

As indicated earlier, the functionality is the same, but the location and labeling differ.

Video

webReader

docReader

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