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Talking Tom Cat 2 - 1 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 11 Jun 12
     
    Help develop language skills for students who are having difficulty with this Android and Apple Device App with a cartoon cat that copies every sound you make and interacts in other ways. The basic free version has lots of functionality, but comes with banner ads. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Special+Educational+Needs
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The App | Outlines Outloud - 14 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 24 Sep 13
     
    This app converts study notes to speech. This might be an app that some of you are interested in trying out for your special needs students. "OutlinesOutloud takes the sting out of studying by converting your study outlines to spoken audio. Super-flexible playback controls let you vary speech rate; jump forward and backward with ease, skip rows or whole sections, loop-and more!"
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Simple English Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 3 views

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shared by Paul Hamilton on 31 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Paul Hamilton on 31 Aug 10
     
    "...an English edition of the Wikipedia encyclopedia, written in primarily Basic English and Special English. The site's stated aim is to provide an encyclopedia for "people with different needs, such as students, children, adults with learning difficulties and people who are trying to learn English". As of August 25, 2010, the site contains over 64,000 content pages, and has more than 141,000 registered users."
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RTI Action Network - Home - 0 views

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shared by Peggy George on 09 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Peggy George on 09 Apr 08
     
    What is RTI? Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners. Students' progress is closely monitored at each stage of intervention to determine the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both.
  • Peggy George on 09 Apr 08
     
    Home page for RTI Action Network-discussed in live show linked from CR20 LIVE Conversations on 4-9-08. LD Live-Living with Learning Disabilities
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Niall Ferguson: How American Civilization Can Avoid Collapse - The Daily Beast - 4 views

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shared by Deron Durflinger on 03 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • “killer applications
  • Competition
  • The Scientific Revolution
  • ...29 more annotations...
  • Modern Medicine
  • The Consumer Society
  • The Work Ethic
  • The Rule of Law and Representative Government.
  • these killer apps were essentially monopolized by Europeans and their cousins who settled in North America and Australasia
  • the great divergence
  • They also grew more powerful
  • 20th century, just a dozen Western empires—-including the United States—controlled 58 percent of the world’s land surface and population, and a staggering 74 percent of the global economy.
  • tendency of Western societies to delete their own killer apps.
  • But there is a second, more insidious cause of the “great reconvergence,” which I do deplore—and that is the
  • Ask yourself: who’s got the work ethic now? The average South Korean works about 39 percent more hours per week than the average American. The school year in South Korea is 220 days long, compared with 180 days here. And you don’t have to spend too long at any major U.S. university to know which students really drive themselves: the Asians and Asian-Americans
  • Yet life expectancy in the U.S. has risen from 70 to 78 in the past 50 years, compared with leaps from 68 to 83 in Japan and from 43 to 73 in China.
  • On no fewer than 15 of 16 different issues relating to property rights and governance, the United States fares worse than Hong Kong. Indeed, the U.S. makes the global top 20 in only one area: investor protection
  • The future belongs not to them but to today’s teenagers
  • The latest data on “mathematical literacy” reveal that the gap between the world leaders—the students of Shanghai and Singapore—and their American counterparts is now as big as the gap between U.S. kids and teenagers in Albania and Tunisia.
  • Yet statistics from the World Intellectual Property Organization show that already more patents originate in Japan than in the U.S., that South Korea overtook Germany to take third place in 2005, and that China is poised to overtake Germany too
  • the United States’ average competitiveness score has fallen from 5.82 to 5.43, one of the steepest declines among developed economies. China’s score, meanwhile, has leapt up from 4.29 to 4.90.
  • Perhaps more disturbing is the decline of meaningful competition at home, as the social mobility of the postwar era has given way to an extraordinary social polarization. You don’t have to be an Occupy Wall Street leftist to believe that the American super-rich elite—the 1 percent that collects 20 percent of the income—has become dangerously divorced from the rest of society, especially from the underclass at the bottom of the income distribution.
  • Far more than in Europe, most Americans remain instinctively loyal to the killer applications of Western ascendancy, from competition all the way through to the work ethic. They know the country has the right software. They just can’t understand why it’s running so damn slowly.
  • What we need to do is to delete the viruses that have crept into our system: the anticompetitive quasi monopolies that blight everything from banking to public education; the politically correct pseudosciences and soft subjects that deflect good students away from hard science; the lobbyists who subvert the rule of law for the sake of the special interests they represent—to say nothing of our crazily dysfunctional system of health care, our overleveraged personal finances, and our newfound unemployment ethic
  • And finally we need to reboot our whole system.
  • If what we are risking is not decline but downright collapse, then the time frame may be even tighter than one election cycle
  • Western Civilization's Killer Apps
  • COMPETITION
  • THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
  • THE RULE OF LAW
  • MODERN MEDICINE
  • THE CONSUMER SOCIETY
  • THE WORK ETHIC
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12 Rules for Writing Great Letters to Request Action - Wrightslaw - 1 views

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shared by Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11 - Cached
  • 4. You negotiate with the school for special education services.
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11
       
      The purpose of the letter could vary.  This format can easily be used for a variety of issues.
  • 5. Never threaten. Never telegraph your punches!
  • Fear of the Unknown As a negotiator, one of the most powerful forces you have on your side is the "Fear of the Unknown." When you threaten, you are telling the other side what you plan to do. If you tell them what you plan to do, you have told them how to protect themselves. At that moment, you lose your advantage - which is the wonderful, powerful Fear of the Unknown. Never telegraph your punches – you will destroy their power and effectiveness. 
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  • 6. Make several (unpleasant but necessary) assumptions.
  • 7. Make your problem unique.
  • 8. You ARE writing letters to a Stranger who has the power to resolve the problem
  • 9. Write letters to the school as business letters.
    • Suzie Nestico
      Suzie Nestico on 27 Mar 11
       
      Again, writing does not have to be simply for a school.  This can easily be adapted to any audience.
  • 10. NEVER make judgments.
  • 11. Write your letter chronologically.
  • 2. Write letters that are clear and easy to understand.
  • Before you write a letter, you need answer these questions.
  • 2. Your First Letter is Always a Draft
  • 3. Allow for "cooling off" and revision time.
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Don't Blame Teachers for Our Education Failures - Newsweek - 27 views

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shared by Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10 - Cached
  • why not copy and fund some of their parental-support programs for existing public schools?
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      Was is somthing so obvious not in every article on education reform?
  • Charter schools often receive the same amount of public funding per student as public schools, and also benefit from their ability to raise and use charitable donations.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      This I didn't know.
  • Surely, classroom teachers would have more opportunity to teach and teach well if they had enough books and study materials for all their kids
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      More of the obvious.
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  • Charter schools are not required to accept special-needs children or children with learning disabilities
  • So isn’t there a way for school systems to strengthen their professional development programs or put forth proposals for more effective teacher observation, mentoring systems or remedial teacher training, if necessary?
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      There are plenty of ways to do this, but nobody can seem to agree on the right way, besides it would cost money.
  • what the HCZ does is first recognize that the amelioration of poverty does not begin and end with an excellent education, but also requires a full belly, parental education, safety, advocacy, and the expectation that every student will succeed
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      Do we ask our schools to do too much?
  • I just can’t believe that holding only teachers accountable—and not the school systems they work for—is the fair or even the best way to improve public education.
    • Brendan Murphy
      Brendan Murphy on 30 May 10
       
      It's not fair, but it is easy.
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Tar Heel Reader - 0 views

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shared by Kathy Benson on 10 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Marie Coppolaro on 10 Jan 09
     
    free, easy to read, voice to text, books for special needs readers up to teenagers
  • Pat Hensley on 10 Jan 09
     
    a collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.
  • Kathy Benson on 20 Aug 12
     
    Free online books for beginning readers of all ages. Some content more appropriate for teenagers. Use the favorites feature to pick books appropriate for you students.
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What Should Schools Teach? 10 suggestions by @RichardJARogers - 3 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Apr 18
     
    "I'm one of those few people who can actually say that I use the stuff I was taught in school on daily basis in my job. I'm a Science Teacher: so naturally, I'm teaching my students almost the same things I was taught at school. However, there are a lot of things I had to work out by myself when I left school. Was 'personal experience' the best way to learn these things?"
  • Walter Antoniotti on 09 Apr 18
     
    Martin, given only about 25% will ever need as much academics learning as a science teacher, I say teach the kids to read, do a little arithmetic, a let them study what they want which will probably what they are good at, their special intelligence.
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Free music, free books, free games, free poems and free puzzles that help teach childre... - 15 views

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shared by Dean Mantz on 04 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 04 Feb 10
     
    Multiple resources for educators to use in teaching reading and literacy to elementary and special needs students.
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