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More schools piloting secure mobile devices | Mobile and Handheld Technologies | eSchoo... - 1 views

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  • A company that manufacturers secure personal cell phones for children is making a move to education, where it has introduced secure, internet-enabled mobile handheld devices for classroom use. School teachers or administrators can program the devices to allow (or disallow) calling or texting during certain times of the day, making them ideal for educational use, the company says
  • “There is recognition that we can leverage capabilities and technologies … by providing mobile learning devices for students with controls for schools,”
  • Data from Project Tomorrow’s 2010 Speak Up Survey indicate that 67 percent of parents support their child using mobile devices in the classroom for school work, although 65 percent of school administrators in the same survey strongly objected to letting students use their own mobile devices in school.
J B

Technology Must Be Accessible to All, Feds Reaffirm - On Special Education - Education ... - 1 views

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shared by J B on 27 May 11 - No Cached
  • "As the use of emerging technologies in the classroom increases, schools at all levels must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of the technology for all students, including students with disabilities," wrote Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Education.
  • Schools need to "think about on the front end whether the device is fully accessible,"
  • "If it's used to further the achievement gap and further the opportunity gap...we should prevent that on the front end."
J B

D2K | Data To Knowledge - 0 views

edbrc.tamu.edu

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shared by J B on 30 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • J B on 30 Apr 11
     
    The e-DBRC system is an electronic daily behavior report card that allows teachers and schools to progress monitor prosocial behavior, communicate with parents, implement interventions and make data based decisions. Using an A-B-C-D-F grading system (modified for early childhood settings to red, yellow, green/happy, neutral, sad faces) the e-DBRC is an effective efficient method of data collection and reporting on behavior.
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107 Favorite iPad Apps for K-8 « Ask a Tech Teacher - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 11 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Not surprisingly, student scores improve when they use iPads and their interest in school soars. I say not surprisingly because students love digital toys and in my experience work harder and longer if given the opportunity to do so with any of the digital offerings (ipods, laptops included).
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New Social Networking Sites - Educational Twist - 0 views

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Patrick Black

SpeEdChange: A 'Universal' VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi - 0 views

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shared by Patrick Black on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • VoiceThread has failed to work with any kind of screen reader, leaving those with sight issues, and reading issues, disconnected... from totally to partially
  • VoiceThread Universal lets full-scale screen readers, software like JAWS and ORCA, read the text comments left on a VoiceThread and allow navigation. The navigation allows you to add comments as well, and that's great. But as the developers point out, the current system won't help you with, "creating and adding content to VoiceThreads," won't allow searches, doesn't allow phone integration, though they say all these things are being "worked on."
  • A bigger issue for me is that neither VoiceThread nor VoiceThread Universal works with the kind of "light" screen readers used by those with dyslexia.
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  • So, is it OK for us to use these tools in schools? I am conflicted. I tend to think "yes" assuming that we always - automatically - provide alternative access capability which is, essentially, equal. After all, we still use those inaccessible books in our rooms, we still let teachers write, in handwriting no less, on the "board." But I'm bothered by it because use may tend to remove the pressure on these organizations to move toward accessibility. These companies want access to our students, should we offer that if they don't really want access to all of our kids?
J B

GoAnimate for Schools and Educators - 0 views

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