- Rapid, Deep Learning App
- Fast Memorization
- Quick Review Before Test or Class
- Easily Check What You've learned
- Study Anywhere
- No Training Required
Simply scan your study material on one of your library's KIC scan stations and output to the amazing new KIC Study System tablet/phone app
Most students agree that Speed Reading, Read-Along Audio and Flashcards can help with studying, and KIC Study System has all three:
- 1SKIM Speed Reading without prior training
- 2ReadAlong Audio for deep learning
- 3Custom Flashcards made fast
But ...
magic happens when they are
used together
in the KSS way
BEATS
The Most Effective Study System
for existing textbook content
For Academic Libraries
Instant access to alternate treatments of a section of study materials can greatly improve quality of education by:
- Helping with a basic understanding
- Providing a deeper understanding
- Improving retention
- Transcending the course curriculum
For Public Libraries
For afterschool student patrons – they have time at the library but not at school – and continuing education patrons
- Support for continued ed courses
- Patron’s choice – learns what he/she sees fit to learn – for creative and open exploration of a subject
Instant Access to Alternate Sources
Academic Libraries
Instant access to Open Educational Resources (OER) provides alternate treatments of textbook content for first-time learners of subjects such as history, biology, microbiology, political science, economics, mathematics and physics. For upper division & grad students, instant access to OER can provide instant reference/review materials. And as vast academic library print collections become available digitally to students studying in the library (in compliance with ©-Law), this study tool will provide instant access to a tremendous amount of scholarly content that is closely related to materials being studied.
Public Libraries
Student patrons can increase the efficiency and efficacy of their study time. With only 5 minutes between classes, students don’t even have the few minutes it takes to setup for studying with this study enhancing tool, but they have plenty of time after school at their public library. By scanning the current and upcoming chapters of their textbooks into this system on their phone, tablet or PC, or onto a USB drive that they can use with a patron-use PC in the library, students have instant access to high quality Open Educational Resources on subjects such as history, biology, microbiology, political science, economics, mathematics and physics. In addition to eliminating the need to always carry their textbooks around, having instant access to alter- nate treatments of study materials has the benefits listed on the side of this page under ‘For Academic Libraries.’
An Amazing NEW Research Tool
...too effective to be limited to university libraries
KIC Study System automatically finds all keywords in the material you scan, searches over a billion sources and presents the closest match to the PDF your source material within seconds. This Powerful digital-age research tool allows users to research faster and more thoroughly than ever before.
Imagine frequently seeing your university’s researchers at the library, even more often than before the digital age. Like IA-based discovery tools, this amazing new research tool goes far beyond regular full-text search, yet unlike AI, it does not take the control away from the user.
Researchers input their digital and printed research into your existing KIC systems, then discard irrelevant content and output it to MyDocs on their phone, tablet or PC, then activate HotLinks 2D Full-text SearchMATCH Discovery to instantly SearchMATCH and find the most relevant content from HotLink’s massive infobase of open access journal articles, currently about 10 million and growing fast. Note also that your library’s most popular and valuable print content can be easily added using your KIC systems, and while in the library, your researchers can view the full content, in compliance with US copyright law Title 17, Section 109(c) – Public Display (after First Sale).
Here's how to download MyDocs for Free
KIC Study System is a feature in the MyDocs application.
Once installed, scan your material on KIC and output to KSS to activate the MyDocs App.
MyDocs
DLSG has been working diligently for several years on many new enhancements to our KIC systems. One very important enhancement is an Android® / Apple® app for KIC called MyDocs. MyDocs is great for managing important documents but can be especially valuable for students as a tool for managing study materials captured by KIC.
Recently, as we approached completion of MyDocs, we added some very special features to it, two study tools that work wonderfully with its ReadAlong Audio feature. Together, these features form a study system that dramatically increases study efficiency while significantly increasing study effectiveness.
KIC Study System
Most students who try KIC Study System immediately see its benefits. Those that have convenient access to a KIC scanning system begin using it regularly.
1Skim
While it is not great for longterm retention, speed reading is a great way to skim a textbook chapter before studying deeply using ReadAlong Audio. MyDocs’ speed reading tool works instantly without training.
While it is not great for longterm retention, speed reading is a great way to skim a textbook chapter before studying deeply using ReadAlong Audio. MyDocs’ speed reading tool works instantly without training.
2Read Along Audio
Everyone knows that retention is higher when the reader is able to listen to text while reading it. MyDocs ReadAlong Audio tool is so easy to use, and is perhaps the most powerful of the 3 study tools that make up the KIC Study System. However, the sequence of skimming study material for 30-120 seconds, then using ReadAlong Audio at a slower and thorough pace, and finishing with flashcards made during the Read Along Audio session forms an extremely powerful study system that often cuts study time in half.
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1Skim
While it is not great for longterm retention, speed reading is a great way to skim a textbook chapter before studying deeply using ReadAlong Audio. MyDocs’ speed reading tool works instantly without training.
While it is not great for longterm retention, speed reading is a great way to skim a textbook chapter before studying deeply using ReadAlong Audio. MyDocs’ speed reading tool works instantly without training.
3Flashcards
Another great tool for learning is flash cards. The KIC/MyDocs version of Flash Cards lets students quickly and easily make flash cards directly from information from their textbooks, course materials from their instructors, and monographs and serials in the library. Making flash cards in MyDocs from textbook content is like highlighting text while studying, only better – flash cards are interactive and highlighting is not. Since the flash cards are only for the student’s personal use, they can usually be created without typing.
Another great tool for learning is flash cards. The KIC/MyDocs version of Flash Cards lets students quickly and easily make flash cards directly from information from their textbooks, course materials from their instructors, and monographs and serials in the library. Making flash cards in MyDocs from textbook content is like highlighting text while studying, only better – flash cards are interactive and highlighting is not. Since the flash cards are only for the student’s personal use, they can usually be created without typing.
MyDocsPersonal Study Network
You Can Instantly Switch Between Phone, Tablet & PC Without Losing Study Progress
No Internet? No Problem.
MyDocs only uses the internet occasionally, to get new study material and synchronize between your devices
KIC Study System Example
Let’s compare traditional studying to studying using these 3 study tools together. Imagine that a student looks at the next chapter for studying and estimates that it will likely take two hours of regular studying that evening. Suppose that student tries the KIC method instead. The student scans the chapter, maybe 30 pages, and sends the text and audio to MyDocs on his phone. That’s quick, just a couple of minutes.
Skim Student spends 8 minutes skimming the chapter using MyDocs’ SKIM speed reading feature in 30 to 120 second intervals, following each SKIM interval immediately with a ReadAlong Audio interval of the content just skimmed, ...
constitution
Read Along Audio ... immediately after each skim interval, while the content is still in short term (subliminal) memory, the student reads the content again, only much more slowly, using ReadAlong Audio, pausing to make Flash Cards, spending an additional 35-40 minutes.
The Constitution of the United States of America.
September 17, 1787
Preamble
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America
Article. I.
Section 1
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section 2
The House The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. (Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.) (The previous sentence in parentheses was modified by the 14th Amendment, section 2.) The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five and Georgia three. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Flashcards The balance of one hour is spent studying the flash cards.
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Additional Benefits
| Features | Advantages |
|---|---|
| ReadAlong Audio (3 Study Methods) | Reading while listening is well know to significantly improve retention. In addition, users can use just the audio can be used, and the normal reading, without the audio can be used. |
| Highlighting with FlashCards (3 Study Methods) | Students are able to highlight their own private digital copy without defacing a textbook that they don't own, and instead of simply highlighting important text, KSS makes flashcards that can be used for easy review, and quiz themselves on the highlighted points. Note that frequent quizzes is well know to improve retention. |
| SKIM (2 Study Methods) | This feature can be used in two modes: 1) at high speed (e.g. 400-600 words per minute), for pre-reading a paragraph or two just prior to ReadAlong Audio, for reviewing just before a test, or for looking for some particular information that the student hasn't been able to find by searching; and 2) at normal reading speed (e.g. at 120-400 words per minute) for more comfortable reading on the small screen of a smart phone. |
| Study Progress Monitoring | This features shows how much of the study material has been covered once, twice or more using ReadAlong Audio, Skim and the study mode of Flashcards. In addition, it shows the results of the one and multiple flashcard quizzes. |
| Study Dashboard | This feature shows study progress summary information for each course that is in progress, allowing students to better allocate their study time between courses. |
| Small Smart Phone Support | KSS intelligently reflows text, pictures , diagrams, etc. for surprisingly effective studying experience on small smart phones. MyDocs Personal Network can automatically transfer study materials between Phone, Tablet and PC. |
| Personal Network | Once in their phone, KSS packets can be automatically transferred to the students' tablet and PC for seamless switching between devices for optimal study effectiveness. |
| Instant Access to Research | HotLinks Research Tool – Once a researcher inputs dozens of pages of personal research as well as journal articles, etc., into a KIC digitization system at the library and outputs KSS packets to MyDocs, he/she is a few touches and screen swipes away from instant access to up to 100 pages of the most relevant content in the HotLinks and ©-Law 108 Content Server systems. |
| Instant Access to Alternate Study Materials | HotLinks Study Tool – Students that use KIC digitization systems at the library to digitize a textbook chapter and output a KSS packet to MyDocs can touch and swipe to the most relevant alternate study materials from a million pages of Open Educational Resources, or from all monographs in the HotLinks and ©-Law 108 Content Server systems. |
KIC Study System Cost Justification
Offer KIC Study System to Your Patrons for as Little as $2,000/Year
KIC Study System (KSS) is part of MyDocs, the free KIC companion app. Unlike most eLearning systems, KSS works with virtually all existing study materials. MyDocs with KSS does not need an active Internet connection to operate. MyDocs with KSS supports phones, tablets and PCs, including iOS, Android and MS-Windows operating environments.
After accepting a copyright notice, KIC lets students input digital study materials via USB in seconds and digitize a chapter straight out of their textbook in one or two minutes. Once in KIC, the study materials can be output as KSS packets to the students’ phone, tablet or PC.
Compare that with the Annual Cost of a US K-12 Student:
Compare that with the Annual Cost of a College Student:
$9,000 Average Annual Cost of an American K-12 Student
5% to 15% Benefit to Students Who Actively Use KIC Study System
$450 to $900 Annual Benefit Per Student User of KIC Study System
$20,000 Average Annual Tuition of a US or Canadian College Student
10% to 30% Benefit to Students Who Actively Use KIC Study System
$2,000 to $6,000 Annual Benefit Per Student User of KIC Study System
KIC Study System is free to students, so it doesn’t take many students using KIC Study System to justify the purchase of additional KIC systems and the low additional fee for KSS support.
Now that KIC Study System exists and is so readily available to the students of US and Canada, each day that passes is a loss of 50 million study hours, so it is urgent to make it available to as many students as possible as soon as possible. DLSG is doing its part by offering KIC Study System at a very low cost, but DLSG needs your help to maintain such low pricing. DLSG is asking you to act quickly to learn what you must know to make an informed decision whether to use some of this budget year’s discretionary money, and add KICs to next year’s budget, or if it is time to change/update your copiers. If you see the potential, please investigate as soon as possible how KIC can provide this wonderful study system AND eliminate the need for student use copiers. Also, we kindly ask that you share information about KIC Study System with your colleagues at other colleges and universities.
www.KIC.com/kss It is an instant mobile device simulation that is quite similar to the actual study system.
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