Teachers, teachers, teachers...

My, you have a tough job.

Each of your students has a different approach to learning. Each one is on a continuum of interest from over-eager to asleep. There is a staggering amount of information available these days, and partly because of this, students shut down, or escape into the monotonous stimuli of games, TV, or the internet. Many of you feel that you're fighting a losing battle to win the attention of your students.

StudyLaB books offer a contemporary tool to get students on the same page at the same time.

To the rescue...

You hand out homework, worksheets, reading assignments. Some students do the work, some copy from others, some don't do it at all.

Now imagine this scene...

"Close your eyes class," you say with an unrecognized glee.

"Come on everyone. Close your eyes." You walk around the room, placing a brand new StudyLaB book on each desk. Scattered breaths grow excited as they hear the quiet pat of the book. You walk back to the front of the room.

"Okay, now open your eyes! Let's read!"

You are now forever remembered as the most popular teacher in each of these child's lives. : )

10 minutes later, EVERY student has considered a plain and compelling argument about an important topic and is eager to begin the liveliest talk you have had in awhile.

StudyLaB books are a crowbar to the critical imagination. They can be employed in the classroom in a variety of ways. They are designed as the entry to a topic, not as an end. It's up to you how deep you take your students or how deep they take you! This is also why StudyLaB books work with such a wide age range.

A Comic Book? ...please.

StudyLaB books were not designed in a comic book format because "Kids Love Comics!"

Rather, the power of the medium rests in a careful balance of emotionally affecting images and real language, a task rarely achieved in most comics.

The advertising industry has been perfecting the art of comics for well over a hundred years and has produced some stunning results in mnemonics, retention, and recall, albeit in the service of something less than inspiring. But the combination of words and pictures can be used for introducing ideas as powerfully as it can for selling products.

And more...

Eventually, StudyLaB.com hopes to be a place where students all over the globe can get together in a live chat to discuss their studies, their homework, and general exploration of ideas.