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Maryanne Wolf is a scholar, teacher, and global advocate for literacy. Wolf completed her doctorate at Harvard University, in the Department of Human Development and Psychology, where she began her work in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics on the reading brain, language, and dyslexia. She directs UCLA’s Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice. She has published four books connecting reading with brain science: Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain, Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century, and Dyslexia, Fluency and the Brain. She was elected a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of Science.
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Hosted by Eric Mazur, Social Learning Amplified brings candid conversations with educators who are finding new ways to engage and motivate their students inside and outside the classroom. John Warner is a writer, editor, speaker, and author of eight books, most recently More Than Words: How To Think About Writing in the Age of AI. His previous books include Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities (Johns Hopkins UP) and The Writer’s Practice: Building Confidence in Your Nonfiction Writing (Penguin).