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Engineering Universal Access for Learning - 0 views

  • “Universal design usually means creating buildings that are physically accessible to everyone, with hallways wide enough for wheelchairs,” he says. “But, in promoting ‘universal design for learning,’ we have to simultaneously confront the technological, social and psychological barriers to equal education.”
  • “Rather than see one person as being blind and another as having dyslexia, we’ve found that it’s most useful to think of both of them as having difficulty processing visual information.
  • some of the most critical issues in educational access remain social rather than technological. As he says, “there is still a stigma that makes some students unwilling to disclose their learning disability.”
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  • Bowie State is collaborating with researchers at the University of Illinois to combine image processing, facial recognition and natural speech to interpret and describe graphic images.
J B

iPad holds promise for dealing with autism | Hudson Star-Observer | Hudson, Wisconsin - 0 views

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    Computer developers at Apple didn't design the iPad with autism in mind, but it seems like it, according to parents of children with the disorder.
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Classroom Set Up for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store - 0 views

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Tech Turns Air Into a Multi-Touch Screen : Discovery News - 1 views

  • Researchers created a special empty frame with highly responsive multi-touch capacity.
  • Touch-sensitive frames have enabled surfaces to become interactive for years, but their size and responsiveness tend to be limited.
  • The 28-inch ZeroTouch frame with scalloped edges can detect whatever moves around inside it. Fingertips, hands, arms, and even inanimate objects pass through an invisible two-dimensional optical web that tracks them. Put ZeroTouch on a computer screen and it turns into an interactive surface that can be manipulated with a stylus.
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  • One big advantage to ZeroTouch, the researchers say, is its affordability. The research prototype was made using commercially available sensors usually found in TV remote controls. Moeller said that the frame, which wasn't designed for mass-production, cost about $450 to construct.
  • Moeller pointed out that the technology creates more possibilities for interaction than capacitive interfaces like the glass touch-screens on smart phones and laptops. The technology simply requires the user to break the light beams -- there's no force required to activate the sensor.
Patrick Black

Special Education Teacher Describes Fun Classroom Technology Learning Environment to Te... - 0 views

  • video interview with Education Specialist Rebecca Byers.Video Interview: http://web.teachtown.com/article-byers-042011
  • “The technology enables teachers, parents and specialists to work together to provide consistent instruction. Student data reports guide us to develop more effective IEPs (Individual Education Plans). Consistent instruction and progress data are two primary benefits of computer aided instruction to help all children learn.”
  • TeachTown®: Basics incorporates the latest artificial intelligence and best practices in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Discrete Trial Performance to prescribe individual lessons based on learning styles and student progress.
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  • I also think this program would work well for English Language Learners.
  • TeachTown®: Basics was designed by a team of autism researchers led by Dr. Christina Whalen, PhD, BCBA-D, Chief Science Officer, who co-founded the company while working at the University of Washington Autism Center. The intervention curriculum addresses early childhood learning standards, and uses prescriptive and adaptive intelligence to deliver direct instruction. At appropriate intervals, children are motivated with games and rewards. Teachers can view progress reports online and receive a monthly email report to track accountability. The program contains over 800 On Computer Lessons and Off Computer Activities, and delivers thousands of concepts in six essential learning domains: Mathematics, Language Development, Language Arts, Adaptive Skills, Cognitive Skills, and Social and Emotion Skills.
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Brighter Futures for Beautiful Minds - 0 views

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    Wonkido - web and mobile based platform designed to manage schedules, tasks, lessons, therapy or activities.  Features fun, kid-friendly interface and built-in reward system.
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Apportunities with iPads | The Technology is Brilliant While the Teaching is Magic - 0 views

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    Apportunities with iPads is a forum originally designed for 20 teachers and parents in the state of Minnesota who are involved in an iPad Project with children who have deaf-blindness. The intent of this forum is to establish a tool that will allow teachers and parents within this project to connect and share experiences about the use of the iPad as an instructional tool with this population of learners. The broader intent of this forum is to weave together the ever-changing face of app use within the field of special education and students with severe and multiple disabilities.
Patrick Black

Matt Bergman's Universal Design for Learning / Ed Tech 2.0 Blog - 0 views

  • Recently, a graduate student of mine introduced me to a site called Answer Garden, which is an online brainstorming tool. All you need is a question and computers for your students to use to answer! Answer Garden makes it easy to embed on your website or just provide a link for your students to access.
  • If you are lucky enough to have a few extra computers in your classroom, you may want to use www.vocabulary.com. Your students are given the challenge of answering a variety of multiple choice questions about vocabulary. The questions appear on a note card, giving it a classroom feel. The site has built a database of over 40,000 words and you have options for narrowing your choices down or getting clues. As you compete, you can accumulate points, making it a competition.
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