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Disabled Students Could Benefit from Virtual Classrooms | STEM | Science | Second Life ... - 2 views

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shared by Chris Dede on 05 Mar 11 - No Cached

Chris Dede on 05 Mar 11

unclear why virtual classrooms would aid disabled

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Education Week: Digital Revolution Changing Lives of Students With Disabilities - 0 views

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shared by Jackie Iger on 07 Mar 12 - No Cached

Jackie Iger on 07 Mar 12

Digital tools are helping students with learning and sensory disabilities gain academic confidence and motivation.

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Why Socially Enabled Games are Important to Gamers With Disabilities - 1 views

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shared by Lauren Farrar on 01 Apr 12 - No Cached

Lauren Farrar on 01 Apr 12

Looks like another interesting panel at PAX East.

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A Free Cloud Library for Students with Disabilities -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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Suspecting verbal abuse, parents are sending disabled children to school with audio rec... - 1 views

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Chris McEnroe on 26 Apr 12

A different focus on technology within the ed system.

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- Why the iPad for College Students is more than Angry Birds - 2 views

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Jackie Iger on 18 Mar 12

A look at how the iPad--and some specific apps--can help students with learning disabilities stay organized and focused.

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Yale-led team developing social robots - 0 views

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shared by Kiran Patwardhan on 17 Apr 12 - No Cached

Kiran Patwardhan on 17 Apr 12

Within five years, Yale-designed robots may be helping teach children. A Yale-led team of researchers from across the country received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation on April 3 to pursue the creation of "socially assistive robots" to help young children learn basic skills and in some cases overcome cognitive disabilities.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Within five years, Yale-designed robots may be helping teach children. A Yale-led team of researchers from across the country received a $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation on April 3 to pursue the creation of "socially assistive robots" to help young children learn basic skills and in some cases overcome cognitive disabilities.</div>

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Video gamers: Size of brain structures predicts success | R&D Mag - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Jocz on 28 Jan 10 - Cached

The new study, in the journal Cerebral Cortex, found that nearly a quarter of the variability in achievement seen among men and women trained on a new video game could be predicted by measuring the volume of three structures in their brains.
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pre-existing individual differences in the brain might predict variability in learning rates, the authors wrote.
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Such information might be useful in education, where longer training periods may be required for some students, or in treating disability or dementia, where information about the brain regions affected by injury or disease could lead to a better understanding of the skills that might also need attention
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Jennifer Jocz on 28 Jan 10

Interesting article discussing a study showing that the size of certain brain structures can predict video game performance

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