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Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities in the Online Classroom - Faculty Focus | ... - 0 views

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      William Meredith on 11 Jun 12
       
      Should it be solely the student's need.  Should the instructor try to diagnose?  Is that going too far?
  • Students with learning disabilities tend to learn better in the online environment, but institutions are not doing enough to prepare instructors to meet their needs, says Mary Beth Crum, an online instructor at the University of Wisconsin—Stout
  • For some, online learning provides the opportunity to hide their learning disabilities from classmates, which can be a welcome relief from the unwanted attention their learning disabilities received in their face-to-face courses.
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  • Their response: open and constant communication, compassion, a willingness to bend the rules to accommodate students, and one-on-one instruction.
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      Text based courses can prove problematic - have more aural 
  • Crum has found that when students who need extra time initially receive it, they tend to get subsequent assignments in on time. Planning becomes a way for them to reach their potential once the obstacle of a due date is removed.
  • Students with learning disabilities may have difficulties with online courses that are predominantly text based
  • William Meredith on 11 Jun 12
     
    How to help students with learning disabilities online. 
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accesselearning Tutorial: Overview - 0 views

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shared by Jane DeMeis on 16 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Jane DeMeis on 16 Jul 09
     
    this is a course on how to make different media forms suchas vieo, and PowerPoint accessible for the guys I work with who have developmental disabilities and need or use devices to help them work on the computer. I am very excited about this course and information and I am presenting this at work
  • Jane DeMeis on 16 Jul 09
     
    this is a course on how to make different media forms such as video, and PowerPoint accessible for the guys I work with who have developmental disabilities and need or use devices to help them work on the computer. I was very excited about this course and information until I read through and found that some of it was basic knowledge and some of it was junk. However, the end had great resource bibliography which I am using in my class. :)
  • Jane DeMeis on 16 Jul 09
     
    for mod 4 assignment
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Parent Training for Young Children With Developmental Disabilities: Randomized Controll... - 0 views

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  • Parenting training has a long history of use with typically developing children who had behavior disorders. Parent training is based on social learning theory, principles of operant theory and behavior modification, and tenets of developmental psychopathology. Evidence suggests that building positive parenting skills and targeting parent–child interactions will have collateral effects on children’s behavior problems (The following popper user interface control may not be accessible. Tab to the next button to revert the control to an accessible version.Destroy user interface controlForehand & Mc-Mahon, 1981; The following popper user interface control may not be accessible. Tab to the next button to revert the control to an accessible version.Destroy user interface controlPatterson, 1982).
  • Unlike parent training for families who have children with behavior problems, programs for children with developmental disabilities often target increasing children’s adaptive behavior, self-help skills, language, or academic skills (The following popper user interface control may not be accessible. Tab to the next button to revert the control to an accessible version.Destroy user interface controlBaker & Brightman, 2004; The following popper user interface control may not be accessible. Tab to the next button to revert the control to an accessible version.Destroy user interface controlBreiner, 1989
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Accessible courses: Going beyond technology to meet the needs of students with disabili... - 0 views

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  • Lauren D on 17 Jun 12
     
    Students attracted to online learning tend to fall into the "non-traditional" categories, particularly adult learners who are balancing work and other responsibilities -How does the student manage his or her time? -How does the student respond when clarification is needed and no one is there to ask? -What are the student's organizational skills? -How does the student feel about the limited social interaction? -How much time does the student need to read and process written information?
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Learning-Centered Syllabi - 0 views

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  • Learning-Centered Syllabi Workshop
  • Creating and using a learner-centered syllabus is integral to the process of creating learning communities.
  • students and their ability to learn are at the center of what we do
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  • we focus on the process of learning rather than the content, that the content and the teacher adapt to the students rather than expecting the students to adapt to the content, that responsibility is placed on students to learn rather than on professors to teach.
  • facilitate student learning rather than to act as "gatekeepers" of knowledge
  • A necessary first step in creating a learning-centered syllabus, according to most sources, is to spend some time thinking about the "big questions" related to why, what, who and how we teach.
  • thoughtful discussions with ourselves and our colleagues about our teaching philosophy and what it means to be an educated person in our discipline
  • We also need to think about how we encourage responsibility for learning in our students.
  • students should progress from a primarily instructor-led approach to a primarily student-initiated approach to learning.
  • participate in planning the course content and activities; clarify their own goals and objectives for the course; monitor and assess their own progress; and establish criteria for judging their own performance within the goals that they have set for themselves, certification or licensing requirements, time constraints, etc.
  • Your first objective is to facilitate learning, not cover a certain block of materia
  • According to Johnson, "course objectives should consist of explicit statements about the ways in which students are expected to change as a result of your teaching and the course activities. These should include changes in thinking skills, feelings, and actions" (p. 3)
  • Don't use words that are open to many interpretations and which are difficult to measure. Make sure that all students understand the same interpretation.
  • here are three primary domains of development for students in a course
  • The Cognitive Domain is associated with knowledge and intellectual skills. The Affective Domain is associated with changes in interests, attitudes, values, applications, and adjustments. And the Psychomotor Domain is associated with manipulative and motor skills
  • An effective learning-centered syllabus should accomplish certain basic goals (Diamond, p. ix): define students' responsibilities; define instructor's role and responsibility to students; provide a clear statement of intended goals and student outcomes; establish standards and procedures for evaluation; acquaint students with course logistics; establish a pattern of communication between instructor and students; and include difficult-to-obtain materials such as readings, complex charts, and graphs.
  • Students need to know why topics are arranged in a given order and the logic of the themes and concepts as they relate to the course structure
  • Clarify the conceptual structure used to organize the course.
  • Does the course involve mostly inductive or deductive reasoning? Is it oriented to problem-solving or theory building? Is it mostly analytical or applied? In answering these questions, acknowledge that they reflect predominant modes in most cases rather than either/or dichotomies.
  • Identify additional equipment or materials needed and sources.
  • "Any student who feels s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact me privately to discuss your specific needs. Please contact the Disability Resources Office at 515-294-6624 or TTY 515-294-6635 in Room 1076 of the Student Services Building to submit your documentation and coordinate necessary and reasonable accommodation."
  • Use a variety of methods.
  • "A learning-centered syllabus requires that you shift from what you, the instructor, are going to cover in your course to a concern for what information and tools you can provide for your students to promote learning and intellectual development" (Diamond, p. xi).
  • Critical Thinking
  • Critical thinking is a learned skill. The instructor, fellow students, and possibly others are resources. Problems, questions, issues, values, beliefs are the point of entry to a subject and source of motivation for sustained inquiry. Successful courses balance the challenge of critical thinking with the supportive foundation of core principles, theories, etc., tailored to students' developmental needs. Courses are focused on assignments using processes that apply content rather than on lectures and simply acquiring content. Students are required to express ideas in a non-judgmental environment which encourages synthesis and creative applications. Students collaborate to learn and stretch their thinking. Problem-solving exercises nurture students' metacognitive abilities. The development needs of students are acknowledged and used in designing courses. Standards are made explicit and students are helped to learn how to achieve them.
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Video: I Have a Student Who Is Deaf | Listening and Spoken Language Knowledge Center | ... - 0 views

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  • Danielle Melia on 19 Jun 12
     
    Every disability can be named, but you may be surprised by your student's abilities.
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BrainBerg Child Development Center: Multiple Intelligence - Where Kids are understood b... - 0 views

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  •  Our schools and culture focus most of their attention on linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence.
  • equal attention on individuals who show gifts in the other intelligences: the artists, architects, musicians, naturalists, designers, dancers, therapists, entrepreneurs, and others who enrich the world in which we live
  • many children who have these gifts don’t receive much reinforcement for them in school.
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  • learning disabled,"
  • linguistic or logical-mathematical classroom.
  • lessons in a wide variety of ways
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! - Television Tropes & Idioms - 0 views

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  • Anneke Chodan on 23 Jul 12
     
    Another example trope. Also a personal pet peeve of mine, as someone who actually HAS ADHD.
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WebAIM: Screen Reader Simulation - 0 views

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  • Kelly Hermann on 02 Jun 10
     
    WebAIM has many resources available for those interested in web accessibility. This screen reader simulation will provide insight into what it might be like to experience a website through the use of a screen reader. Screen readers are software programs that narrate the text of the desktop and any applications used for those who have visual impairments.
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Review: Million Dollar Baby - 0 views

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    Steve Drake's review of Million Dollar Baby
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The Myth of Learning Styles - 0 views

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  • . While many of those scientists seek to discover general principles of learning, we all acknowledge that there are differences among students. Understanding these differences and applying that understanding in the classroom can improve everyone's education
  • First, whether we call it talent, ability, or intelligence, people vary in their capacity to learn different areas of content
  • Second, and often intertwined with ability, students differ in their interests. If a student loves the piano, or basketball, or chess, or the biology of frogs, that student will no doubt learn material related to that subject faster than another one who does not share that fascination.
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  • Third, students differ in their background knowledge, and that difference influences their learning
  • Many students will report preferring to study visually and others through an auditory channel. However, when these tendencies are put to the test under controlled conditions, they make no difference—learning is equivalent whether students learn in the preferred mode or not
  • The emphasis on learning styles, we think, often comes at the cost of attention to these other important dimension
  • just as our social selves have personalities, so do our memories.
  • Finally, some students have specific learning disabilities, and these affect their learning in specific ways.
  • The proof that the learning-styles theorist must find is that for some sort of content—whether it be math, poetry, or dodgeball—changing the mode of presentation to match the learning styles helps people learn. That evidence has simply not been found.
  • While such evidence of learning styles would serve as a proof that they exist, the lack of evidence does not prove definitively that they do not exist
  • Teachers should take into account the differences in learners' abilities. And adjusting a lesson not just to be appropriately pitched at the students' level of ability but to take into account their background knowledge and interests is surely an important first step in fostering learning.
  • if a student believes she is a visual learner and therefore disengages and daydreams when a lecturer turns off the PowerPoint and tells a story, this will prevent her from learning the concept through a compelling narrative. And while these beliefs may not have as direct an impact on performance reviews as they do in K-12 settings, a belief in learning styles occasionally shows up in student evaluations of teaching:
  • (can the auditory learner learn geography through hearing it? Can the visual learner become better at music by seeing it?)
  • Third, learning-styles theory has succeeded in becoming “common knowledge.” Its widespread acceptance serves as an unfortunately compelling reason to believe it
  • econd, learning-styles theory is sometimes offered as a reason to include digital media in the classroom.
  • . We shouldn't congratulate ourselves for showing a video to engage the visual learners or offering podcasts to the auditory learners. Rather, we should realize that the value of the video or audio will be determined by how it suits the content that we are asking students to learn and the background knowledge, interests, and abilities that they bring to i
  • Assessment of student interest can also be a useful tool for deciding how to approach the material in a given class
  • Students differ in their abilities, interests, and background knowledge, but not in their learning styles. Students may have preferences about how to learn, but no evidence suggests that catering to those preferences will lead to better learning. As college educators, we should apply this to the classroom by continuing to present information in the most appropriate manner for our content and for the level of prior knowledge, ability, and interests of that particular set of students.
  • Heather Kurto on 18 Jul 13
     
    Great article for all teachers. Thank you!
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LD OnLine :: Technology-Supported Math Instruction for Students with Disabilities: Two ... - 0 views

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  • One kind of cognitive task that can be offloaded to a computer is converting text, symbols, and mathematical notations. These tools can support students who have difficulty decoding text and symbols
  • Too often, special education students study mathematics by first learning isolated skills. Then they apply these skills by solving narrowly defined math problems that are purported to provide practice for these skills. Unfortunately, this strategy often leads to the practice of rote procedural skills
  • inert knowledge
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  • students may have the mathematical knowledge and procedures they need but may be unable to use them because they lack the conceptual understanding that allows them to match their knowledge to the problem situation
  • anchored instruction
  • declarative, procedural, and conceptual.
  • Joan Erickson on 01 Jul 10
     
    LD strategies for math education
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Special Connections - 0 views

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  • is typically perceived as two educational professionals working together to service a group of heterogeneous learners. The most common teams of educators found to engage in co-teaching relationships are:
  • o-teaching
  • meet a wide range of learners more effectively
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  • paraprofessional and a special or general educato
  • co-taught middle school setting, special educators are assigned (typically by grade level) to be a member of the interdisciplinary team. Also at this level, as is true at all levels, students with disabilities who are included in a co-taught setting must feel positive about themselves.
  • "Is what we are doing good for ALL students?"
  • because the curriculum is being modified for everyone,
  • Melissa Pietricola on 28 Jun 10
     
    Co-Teaching Model
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Multimodal Learning Blog - 0 views

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  • As Siegel (2006) points out, “children have always engaged in what are now called multimodal literacy practices” (pg.65) Children naturally talk about, dramatize and draw ideas that they are reading and writing about. Furthermore, using multiple modes or sign systems can provide new and deeper meaning (Siegel, 2006, pg. 71)
  • Research to date shows that when curricular changes include multimodality, those youth who experience substantial success are the very ones who’ve been labeled “struggling reader” or “learning disabled” (Siegel, 2006, pg. 73)
  • Many progressive pedagogies such as constructivism, experiential learning and inquiry learning emphasize the importance of building upon students’ experiences, knowledge, skills and interests (Rowsell, Kosnik & Beck, 2009.)
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  • In his recent video, An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube,  Michael Wesch (2008) persuasively outlines the ways in which the world has changed through new media, and how education can and should harness the potential of this new world.
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