Read, more than a habit, an implicit need

The truth is that the information and written communication is becoming more abundant and access has become involuntary, and therefore, how to process it becomes more important and even vital. Digitization multiplied exponentially as written material and as happened with photography and music. I do not use the roll of film but many more photographs are taken each time you have less CD's but you hear more music and fewer books but will read much more content.

As an example of this, information on the Internet doubles every two years and currently there are over a billion web pages. The New York Times reported in a week that all the information available to a person of the eighteenth century along his life. This confirms that the Internet has exceeded the capabilities of information processing of human beings.

Based on the foregoing, absorb large amounts of information becomes a necessity, if not addressed, can affect academic performance and even business productivity. Reading is a complete activity, is the use cognitive in nature, which allows us to , imagine, dream and respond to various aspects or circumstances which we live.

According to Andreas Seibert, regional representative of Reading Program, a reading untrained person reads 104 words per minute (ppm). Currently, a person would take more than 8 hours to read the 51.000 words that receives an average day, between emails, web pages, text messages and social networks. "The human mind is capable of recognizing up to 3 000 images per minute and can decode and assign meaning" Seibert said. Thus, to increase reading speed, the brain is concentrated in that one activity and does not lead to distractions thoughts of others to what is being read.

Thus arises Advanced Reading, a program proven 100% online for eye and brain training that enables mastery of the skill of speed reading and the inclusion of people in the information society. This is the repetition of a series of exercises in training sessions of 15 to 20 minutes divided into modules that allow you to break bad habits and establish new techniques for imaging impact reading.

A little history

According to Seibert before computers existed imaging machine called the tachistoscope, with which it could present a series of paintings in fractions of less than one second. Early versions of this machine were developed by a German scientist named AW Volkmann. The tachistoscope was widely used during World War II to train fighter pilots in the early recognition of enemy aircraft, and during this training was discovered that there were people who were able to distinguish such images with projections of just two thousandths of a second , which brought immediate implications to the field of reading.

Thus, using the same methodology as the training of fighter pilots, he soon found that they could project themselves and recognize up to four words simultaneous periods of time of two milliseconds. In the early 50's an American professor, Evelyn Wood, the tachistoscope techniques adapted to a portable device that allowed to increase reading speed.

Currently, the tachistoscope and similar portable devices have been replaced by the use of specialized computer programs that allow the training of a faster and easier to obtain the necessary skills to increase reading speed and improve comprehension.

Reading, a key indicator of education and human development

The act of reading becomes a cornerstone of education and dissemination of knowledge, the democratization of culture and individual and collective human, so it is extremely important to expose the importance of efficient reading in schools, colleges universities and the education sector in general.

Proof of this is that the Advanced Reading technique has been used to train over 6,000 people at the regional level, which is reflected in the testimony of Camilo Henriquez College - Talca in Chile, where students participate in a project whose main objective is to increase reading speed and comprehension through the use of learning platforms specialized in speed reading. Alexander Rudloff, the project manager says that the speed reading increases the enjoyment of reading and changes the way learn because they move from one syllable to a reading read display, which allows the person to greater understanding, greater capacity for reflective thinking and greater retention. "The children report that they now read for pleasure, reading them gives pleasure and move to other places where they feel part of what they are reading "says Ana Maria Sepulveda, Professor of Language of the school.

Rudloff says he saw a paradigm shift and expectation regarding the ability of their students, which fills them with hope for their ability to be inserted into the knowledge society, where today, the available information is duplicated exponentially.

When reading an indicator of human development and assuming that reading ability is the understanding and reflection on texts in order to develop the knowledge, personal potential and participate in society, has created a space in www.lecturaavanzada.com that offers readers the opportunity to perform in a few minutes, a test of reading speed and comprehension and experiment with these new techniques.