Can Your Apple Computer Really Teach You How To Read?
Are you looking for a great way to teach reading in your school? Are you interested having your students be engaged in online learning? How about asking students to write a book that their computer reads back to them?
Thanks to the new iBooks app on Apples OS X Mavericks (or higher), you can now teach your students how to create and learn from online books and textbooks.
- Step 1: Install Mavericks onto your MAC or Apple Laptop
- Step 2: Open up iBooks app and select a book
- Step 3: Highlight some text in the book and right click.
- Step 4: Select START READING
Apple's macOS operating system has a built-in text reader. This function is great for students learning to read or need help sounding out words on a screen.
Check out our video demonstration today!
What do you think?
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Happy Reading!
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