Students and children with reading difficulties across North America and other countries are increasingly using Zane Education's online Visual Learning solution, and subtitled educational video library, because it provides a unique and affordable online visual learning resource that teaches a vast range of curriculum subjects using a format ultimately suited to the child with reading difficulties - because the audio-visual nature of each video enhances and empowers their learning potential by removing the need to read to learn.
Yet Zane does more than just removing the reliance on reading to enable those children to learn, it provides the information in a format (using subtitles on each video -except for Math) that provides each child with the potential to improve their reading and literacy skills at the same time.
In other words, it uses a format that overcomes their difficulties and enables their reading and literacy skills to improve AT THE SAME TIME they are studying and improving their knowledge of those subjects and topics they are studying each day. It therefore serves a dual purpose.
And used correctly, the recommended process used to achieve improvement in each child's reading and literacy skills, will dramatically increase the amount of information retained and remembered by the student, of the topic itself.
The three main reasons why Zane's visual learning program, is the online learning solution of choice for parents and teachers of those children and students with reading difficulties is because:
Our unique and advanced online learning solution provides these significant benefits for families of those children experiencing difficulties with reading:
Visual learning entails the use of visual aids like video to convey ideas even more effectively. It enhances learning since interactive effects are used to reinforce the content being learned. Visual learning is a great way of learning as it aids to increase a learner's interest in a certain subject.
Visual learning techniques are used widely in schools across the country to accomplish curriculum goals and improve student performance.
Substantial research promotes the use of video in the classroom, or the home, as a dynamic and effective resource for teaching and supporting curriculum material. According to a recent teacher survey, 94% of classroom teachers had effectively used video during the course of the last academic year, and most teachers were using it frequently - on average, at least once per week.
"A picture is worth a thousand words, but add text to the sound and video becomes a reading tutor."
(Captions For Literacy, 2008)
Zane provides the only fully subtitled (captioned) video library with enlarged fonts developed specifically for teaching available online. It enables study of curriculum material and reading improvement - at the same time! AND there are now legal requirements to cater for students with learning disabilities.
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Many teachers dislike preparing and grading exams, and most students' dread taking them. Yet tests are powerful educational tools that serve at least four functions. They help evaluate and assess whether students they are learning what is being expecting of them. They can serve to motivate and help students structure their academic efforts. They can help you understand how successfully material is being presented. And they can reinforce learning by providing students with indicators of what topics or skills they have not yet mastered and should concentrate on.
Zane uses multiple-choice tests to measure both simple knowledge and complex concepts because multiple-choice questions can be answered quickly and you can assess students' mastery of many topics in a short time period. Zane has also ensured that each correct or incorrect answer is qualified with a reason so as to ensure that the learning process continues.
A selection of interactive study tools are provided immediately beside every video to enable the student to fully explore and understand all aspects of each particular topic.
Zane provides free Lesson Planning for virtually all of the 260 topics so as to help reduce and minimize lesson planning and preparation time, and to ensure that lessons that are well planned, will achieve their objectives, and are more likely to provide the best learning outcomes for you and your children or students.
Zane Education's library of online subtitled video, online testing and assessment, quizzes and quiz questions have been specifically developed and produced for the teaching of the K-12 curriculum and are aligned to state, regional and national standards.
The Zane Learning Guide provides a detailed list and overview of the K-12 subjects and topics that can be studied using our online subtitled educational video library.
We highly recommend that you take the time to download this 270-page publication if you want to want to understand the comprehensive nature of the curriculum material we provide. Simply looking at our website will not fully inform you of the true extent of the learning material that we provide.
The link to download this from is: Catalog Downloads
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Zane Education provides a Guide for students with reading difficulties demonstrating how to use the visual learning resources provided on this website to achieve the best educational outcome for the student.
This Guide can be downloaded free of cost on our Downloads page by those people that have completed a free Registration for a free Basic Membership.
Customers can complete a free Registration for a Basic Membership by going to our Registration Page.
Access to the use of our full subtitled videos is a Premium Service and requires the purchase of a Gold, Silver or Bronze Membership subscription
Gold Membership - all videos for all subjects for all Grades
Silver Membership - all videos for all subjects for the chosen Grade
Bronze Membership - all videos for all Grades for the chosen Subject