Gould Burgess teaches in a "flipped classroom," so her students complete their "lower-level thinking" for homework, and engage in "higher-level thinking," like the marble and catapult lab, in the classroom. After watching the podcasts at home, students come to class ready to work on more advanced exercises that build on what they learned from the lectures.
Check out some great tools and examples from the NEA website!!
The Tech and Learning magazine has always been on my reading list, though, I admit that I don't read the articles as much as I would like. I tend to find at least one article that is relevant to my current situations each time I read it.
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Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards. My students love these videos!
This website, which is now only available as a mobile app, provides learners and educators with videos that demonstrate the signs in American Sign Language for specific mathematical terms.
With this program a student can speak math problems and they will be written out on the computer. This can help students who have a motor skills disability.
Metroplex Voice Computing is the leader in speech recognition mathematics. Our exclusive speech recognition software products are designed to operate without needing the keyboard or mouse.
The Described and Captioned Media Program is a free-loan library of accessible educational media for use by teachers and family member of K-12 students with a vision or hearing loss. This U.S. Department of Education-funded program also serves as a clearinghouse of accessibility information and training resources as well as a gateway to accessibility information from partnering organizations.
Education access and achievement for the deaf and hard of hearing is gaining attention as more students attend neighborhood schools, and educators are becoming more familiar with options and opportunities to improve instructional delivery. Multimedia materials and environments can provide multiple representations of concepts that are more meaningful to students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
A free online automatic text summarization tool. Simply select a percentage to keep, and the original text will be accordingly shortened to reveal a summary.
