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Autumn Griffith

Turning Point Student Response Systems: Making it Click for Students with Disabilities - 1 views

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turning point student response systems disabilities

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  • Turning Point is an audience response
  • system, commonly referred to as “clickers”, that works inside Microsoft’s PowerPoint®. Students are able to participate in presentations or lectures by submitting responses via their clickers; their recorded responses are then captured and can be viewed by the instructor and / or whole class.
  • differentiated instruction
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  • allows for all students to participate equally in answering questions
  • Clickers allow them to answer without the fear of being ridiculed for incorrect answers
  • Competitive students can compete against other students for having the fastest response times.
  • Turning Point not only gives teachers instant feedback on what students are or are not learning, but this data can also be kept as ongoing records of student achievement and growth.
  • This information can be later disaggregated on Excel spreadsheets.
  • With Turning Point, teachers can insert not only question slides to gauge student’s mastery or understanding of a concept, but also input slides that ask students to convey their comfort level with newly learned material without fear of being “the only one” who didn’t understand.
  • Autumn Griffith on 10 Apr 13
     
    This article describes how TurningPoint can be used to benefit teachers and their students, especially those with disabilities. TurningPoint is an anonymous response system that teachers can use to check for understanding and allows students to feel confident in participating.
Melissa Morris

Why Schoology - 0 views

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social networking schoology features

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  • Melissa Morris on 16 Apr 13
     
    This page shows an overview Schoology, a social networking site for the classroom. Similar to Facebook, Schoology links classrooms and offers teachers new ways to keep connected with students and parents.
Corynne Farmer

Assistive Technology for Young Children in Special Education: It Makes a Difference | E... - 0 views

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technology assistive teaching children disabilities

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  • echnology can be a great equalizer for individuals with disabilities that might prevent full participation in school, work, and the community.
  • mobility, hearing, or vision impairments,
  • enable subtle motor movements to control mobility devices,
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  • new and more effective means of learning while individualizing instruction to the broad range of student learning needs.
  • Educators are using computers as tools to deliver and facilitate learning beyond drill and practice, to provide environments that accommodate learning, and to ensure enhanced and equitable learning environments to all students.
  • "any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities."
  • used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities."
  • he benefit of AT is also easy to comprehend when a child who cannot hear can understand his teacher's directions because real-time captioning converts the teacher's speech to text projected onto his laptop computer.
  • "appropriate" education
  • apparent that new technologies can provide the tools to bring more children with disabilities into "regular" educational settings
  • Corynne Farmer on 09 Apr 13
     
    As a special educator it is our job to provide equitable accommodations for all students with disabilities. Assistive technology, ranging from low to high tech provide efficient educational experiences for students to reach their full academic potential  despite any disability. Assistive technology tools provide many opportunities for children with disabilities to learn and for the teacher to be able to provide learning opportunities for his/her students.
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