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Alli Grover

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  • Assistive technology is any kind of technology and/or tool that can be used to enhance the functional independence of a person with a disability.
  • can be a challenge
  • iDevices in the Special Education Classroom
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  • Students learn in different ways
  • The iPad can provide visual, audio and tactile learning; reaching many students’ learning styles.
  • The iPad is often used as an individual tool in isolation
  • But please, don't put the child in a quiet place and just hand them an iPad without a true purpose. Let's get creative with its use. How to use an iPad in the classroom with a group? A couple of thoughts - Teacher directs, students watch.  Teacher directs, with iPad in the middle of the group and students touch with instruction.   Teacher instructs and iPad is passed between students. Use as part of your lesson, part of your center activity.   Teacher instructs and the students use, independently or in a team situation.    Team learning situations. Hand a group of students an iPad with a purpose. 
  • Most of us will not have enough for all our students for a while.
  • ideas
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  • be careful to not have the iPad become what we have seen so many computers become in education: a glorified toy.
  • What are some of the benefits we are seeing? We are seeing that the iPad often encourages interactivity. Students will share a lot of what they're doing, ask each other "How did you do that?" or, "Oh, look what I did!"  They want to problem solve together. It encourages group discussions between the students. They tend to help each other a lot more.  It is affordable, comparatively speaking (see below.)  
  • For special education students, some are saying it is the best tool that has ever been designed. Here are a few reasons why we might prefer an iPad over a desktop computer: Ease of access – no need to be able to operate a mouse, a switch or to need to sit a certain way. The iPad can easily come to the student, be placed where they need it and the touch required is extremely friendly. (Not for all!! Remember, this is very individual.) Simplicity of programs – from very basic to more complex, many apps are design to be user friendly. For the moderate to severe population of students the amount of simple apps is huge, plus they are extremely inexpensive and visually draw students in. Simplicity of use - many who cannot understand how to operate a computer, can understand how to operate an iPad. (Even your grandmother!) Low cost of programs – compared to the cost of software programs for a computer, there really is no comparison (unless you consider the abundant amount of free programs available on the Internet. And yes, please continue using those!). There are apps designed specifically for our population (see other postings to right). Designing apps for education has become quite the market. The amount of apps designed specifically for special education has grown so much that there is now a category for it that stands alone in the iTunes Store. Assistive Technology and Communication Apps are available that help to make this a tool for access support, not just a tool for learning (i.e. audio books, word prediction, visual prompts, etc.) It can be loaded with many adaptive technology gadgets and programs, thereby reducing the need for multiple devices. Talk about UDL (Universal Design for Learning)! This is a tool that can level the playing field for many. There are apps that are inexpensive and exciting to increase vocabulary, sight words, math facts, reading comprehension, organizational skills, and drawing skills, just to name a few.It can be very educational and in the classroom, this is what we want: exciting, fresh, innovative teaching tools. Built-in accessibility tools such as zoom and high contrast display make this a tool to support visually impaired. The built-in VoiceOver screen reader works as well on the iPad as on the iPhone. For our VI population, the options are growing and growing. (However, it may be the iPhone that is the best solution for those with significant vision impairments.) Programs such as Dragon Dictation is free, no paper and pencil needed if one can speak clearly, for writing text messages, e-mail, maybe documents. (Must have Internet/WiFi connection for this to work however and it is not the best option for longer texts.) The brilliant screen of the iPad which creates and supports visual interest - with the ever improving HD colors which are bright and the HD video and/or camera- tools at our fingertips that can be pulled into our educational artillery in so many new and innovative ways.  The right case can make it much less indestructible. More and more tools are being developed to help with access. (Mounts, switch access, adaptive styluses, etc.) Light weight (iPad = 1.5 lbs.) Instant Response/Instant On/Fast Processor. Consider this: Combine the touch screen, ease of use, and cool factor of the iPad and you have a pretty interesting format for communication device
  • AT is intended to enhance performance of an individual with a disability.  It is why we have to carefully match what we recommend to the user's strengths and needs.  The iPad cannot do that on its own, it is the recommendation of the appropriate Apps that ultimately improve the performance of a student.  Thus, the iPad itself is not the Assistive Technology it is the Settings and the Apps, the case, the special stylus, that offer enhanced performance. Improving performance of a student with a disability through AT (Apps or otherwise) means looking at the student, identifying the task that needs to be performed and identifying where the student will use the AT - i.e. the environment, effects of time etc
  • This is a list of iPad pros, from a student’s point of view (wish I knew the student’s name so I could reference her. My apologies!):
  • iPads with Moderate to Severe Students:
  • Videos worth watching:
  • Articles worth reviewing:
  • Now go out and make this tool a wonderful addition to our educational world!
  • Alli Grover on 03 Apr 14
     
    This website is a great if you are looking for some fresh tips on how to use the latest iPad tools for students in a Special Education classroom. On this site lists benefits of iPad and has real life SpecEd students' opinions, also this page lists videos and articles for extra guidance and opinion on iPad.
Jaclyn Mirski

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  • Take our dyslexia
  • Jaclyn Mirski on 03 Apr 14
     
    This website is for getting audio books for people who are blind/visually impaired, or for people who have a reading deficit. 
Kate Coleson

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  • ORGANIZATION
  • lace computers where they are available throughout the day
  • READING
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  • Connect your computer  to an averkey or a projector for whole class instruction
  • Allow groups to work on projects during literacy circles, guided reading, etc.
  • AppleWorks to create posters advertising books, character trading cards, group summaries, book cubes, student made tests
  • Use the Sesame Street site to practice letters
  • Play Kids Games for alphabet fun
  • WRITING / LANGUAGE ARTS
  • bookmark online resource tools (or put them on your website for easy access)
  • Make graphs from data using AppleWorks spreadsheet
  • SCIENCE / SOCIAL STUDIES
  • track live information
  • Candy Stack on 08 Oct 13
     
    This website helps give teachers ideas on how to include technology into their daily classroom routine. Also, it gives them specific programs that help certain subjects.
  • Melissa Mauer on 31 Mar 14
     
    Helpful for teachers - Integrating Technology in the Elementary Classroom in reading, writing and language arts, math, science and social studies.
  • Kate Coleson on 07 Apr 14
     
    May ideas of incorporating technology into all subjects of the elementary classroom. 
Katelyn Huibregtse

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  • I am a Special Education major and I love to sing and water ski
  • Katelyn Huibregtse on 11 Feb 14
     
    it would be useful for teachers because its a way to find different books. It is also away to stay organized and on top of things.
Dorshe' Jackson

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  • Dorshe' Jackson on 30 Sep 14
     
    This site is good technology helper in todays society , because it provides teachers with the ability to use the new social media in the classroom in an effective manner. It also will keep the children engaged and have them more excited about school die to the fact that is is more accessible and hip than just reading the lesson out of the book or an online pdf it is on their favorite social media site. It secretly keeps them engaged in learning all the time !
Margaret O'Malley

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Tips Integration technology education

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  • . Plan ahead: There has to be a comprehensive strategy in place to implement technology into the school system, Wise says, and the teachers have to be involved in the planning stages.
  • 2. Try something new: The Digital Learning Day website includes a number of teacher "toolkits" with lesson ideas and devices for enhancing lessons with technology. One tool mentioned is the website Animoto, which allows students to create and upload videos, such as oral book reports. There are also lists of ideas for digital learning, which have been submitted by other teachers.
  • Become an educational designer:
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  • ntegrating technology into a high school classroom isn't a one-step process. "You can't just slap a netbook [computer] on top of a textbook and say, 'Great, now we have technology,"
  • digital learning starts with teachers,
  • performance is enhanced by technology
  • he first annual Digital Learning Day falls on February 1 and will celebrate innovative K-12 instructors who successfully bring technology into the classroom by assigning online course content,
  • When a school says, 'OK, we want to use technology better,' you have to develop your goals and what learning outcomes you're trying to reach,"
  • As technology evolves, so must the teachers. "For the last 100 years, teachers have essentially been the sage on the stage," Wise says. "They're the only access point of knowledge."
  • 1. Plan ahead: There has to be a comprehensive strategy in place to implement technology into the school system, Wise says, and the teachers have to be involved in the planning stages."When a school says, 'OK, we want to use technology better,' you have to develop your goals and what learning outcomes you're trying to reach," Wise says. School leaders and teachers must then think about the "three T's," he adds, which ask how teaching can be improved, what technology will be used, and how time will be used more efficiently.
  • Login Welcome, {{name}} Logout Rankings & Advice Education Health Money Travel Cars Law Firms News U.S. News Home education Facebook Twitter Education Rankings & Advice Home Colleges Grad Schools High Schools National Rankings State Rankings High School Notes Blog (function ($) { "use strict"; $(function () { var $metaCurrentState = $('meta[name=current_state_abbreviation]'), $headerSearch = $('#headerSearch-highSchools'), $headerState = $('select[name=bhs-school-state]', $headerSearch), $headerStates = $('option', $headerStates), currentStateAbbreviation = ''; if ($metaCurrentState.length > 0) { currentStateAbbreviation = $metaCurrentState.attr('content'); $headerStates.each(function () { var $state = $(this), text = $state.text(), value = $state.val(); if (text === currentStateAbbreviation) { $headerState.val(value); } }); } }); }(jQuery)); (function($) { $(document).ready(function() { function autocomplete_school_name_widget() { var state = $("#bhs-header-state option:selected").val(), url = 'http://' + window.location.hostname + '/education/best-high-schools/' + state + '/name-autocomplete?timestamp=0&limit=10', redirect_url = 'http://' + window.location.hostname + '/education/best-high-schools/search-bounce'; if ($.fn.usnAutocomplete) { $('#bhs-header-school').usnAutocomplete({ responseFormat: 'newlineList', autocompleteOptions: { serviceUrl: url, paramName: 'q', onSelect: function() { window.location.href = r
  • Login Welcome, {{name}} Logout Rankings & Advice Education Health Money Travel Cars Law Firms News U.S. News Home education Facebook Twitter Education Rankings & Advice Home Colleges Grad Schools High Schools National Rankings State Rankings High School Notes Blog (function ($) { "use strict"; $(function () { var $metaCurrentState = $('meta[name=current_state_abbreviation]'), $headerSearch = $('#headerSearch-highSchools'), $headerState = $('select[name=bhs-school-state]', $headerSearch), $headerStates = $('option', $headerStates), currentStateAbbreviation = ''; if ($metaCurrentState.length > 0) { currentStateAbbreviation = $metaCurrentState.attr('content'); $headerStates.each(function () { var $state = $(this), text = $state.text(), value = $state.val(); if (text === currentStateAbbreviation) { $headerState.val(value); } }); } }); }(jQuery)); (function($) { $(document).ready(function() { function autocomplete_school_name_widget() { var state = $("#bhs-header-state option:selected").val(), url = 'http://' + window.location.hostname + '/education/best-high-schools/' + state + '/name-autocomplete?timestamp=0&limit=10', redirect_url = 'http://' + window.location.hostname + '/education/best-high-schools/search-bounce'; if ($.fn.usnAutocomplete) { $('#bhs-header-school').usnAutocomplete({ responseFormat: 'newlineList', autocompleteOptions: { serviceUrl: url, paramName: 'q', onSelect: function() { window.location.href = r
  • 2. Try something new: The Digital Learning Day website includes a number of teacher "toolkits" with lesson ideas and devices for enhancing lessons with technology. One tool mentioned is the website Animoto, which allows students to create and upload videos, such as oral book reports. There are also lists of ideas for digital learning, which have been submitted by other teachers.[Experts give parents tech tips on embracing digital education.]One idea that has seen great results, say Wise and Hall, is the "flipped classroom." With this setup, they explain, the lectures and homework are reversed. Students will listen to a webcast or recording of the teacher's lecture at home, and then they will come to class and work on projects and problem-solving activities related to the lecture with the teachers.
  • 3. Become an educational designer: As technology evolves, so must the teachers. "For the last 100 years, teachers have essentially been the sage on the stage," Wise says. "They're the only access point of knowledge."But now, Wise says, teachers are more like designers, who get to choose and develop what kinds of content their students access and which technologies they use. Wise says that with new content technologies, too, teachers can quickly see assessment results of their students."They have tools so that instead of seeing 25 students sitting in front of them looking the same," Wise says, "they now know that this student needs this particular assistance, and this student needs that something else."
  • hayley stankiewicz on 16 Oct 12
     
    3 Tips to Adding technology in the classroom
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  • Connor Oelfke on 31 Jan 13
     
    A great site on giving tips on how to use technology in the classroom.
  • Abby Cleary on 22 Feb 13
     
    Three tips to make sure the classroom uses effective technology
  • Desiree Stevens on 28 Feb 13
     
    This website gives great tips on ways to integrate technology into the classroom.
  • Emily Dulle on 02 Oct 13
     
    Integrating Technology into the classroom
  • Jasmine McDonald on 08 Oct 13
     
    This site is useful because it helps in understanding how to bring technology into the classroom in an appropriate non-forceful manor.
  • Ellie Heiking on 18 Feb 14
     
    Tips on how your students can benefit from tech. in the classroom.
  • emily dreher on 02 Apr 14
     
    There are tips on how to successfully use technology in your classroom.
  • Emma Gorski on 23 Apr 14
     
    This article talks about how integrating technology into the classroom is a process instead of a one-step action. It gives three pieces of advice on ways to transition into having a technology based classroom.
  • Margaret O'Malley on 23 Sep 15
     
    3 Tips on Integrating Technology in the Classroom
Tessa Cristan

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  • — that cover a wide range of subjects for every grade level and learning style.
  • We’ve even created a collection of apps just for teachers to help you organize more efficiently and teach more effectively.
  • Whatever you’re teaching, apps help you do what you do best — inspire students to think in new ways.
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  • iBooks is stacked with materials to help you teach practically any subject.
  • they’re great interactive experiences.
  • Tessa Cristan on 24 Feb 15
     
    This website illustrates strategies for students to get ivolved with iPads. The apps help teachers get their students interested and have them think outside of the box.
edmondsbl30

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  • Despite the challenges, incorporating technology into education still has proven benefits, especially when it comes to personalized learning. From math games that adjust the level of difficulty as players progress to electronic books that talk and respond to the tap of a finger, products that personalize the learning experience for students often benefit their understanding. An interactive game is more engaging than a book, so technology often promotes more practice and review in areas requiring memorization, such as spelling, math and geography. This frees up time in the classroom so educators can focus on skills like problem solving, character development and critical thinking.
  • Technology also makes it easier to spend more overall time on learning. “After school and weekend time can become effective learning time with the right technology,” says David Vinca, founder and executive director of eSpark Learning, an education company that focuses on bringing iPads and iPods into the classroom. Much like how smart phones extend the workday by allowing professionals to send emails anytime, educational technology extends the school day for kids who will happily play multiplication games or review grammar on computer programs.
  • Michaela Dunn on 08 Mar 13
     
    Technology in classroom is it helpful or harmful?
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  • Michaela Dunn on 08 Mar 13
     
    Very interesting article. Is technology helpful or harmful in the classroom. This website provides good information regarding why it is good to have it in the classroom.
  • Rylee Covert on 23 Oct 14
     
    Gives great examples of why technology is good in the classroom. It gives kids to use technology outside of the classroom as well. 
  • littlejojs15 on 30 Jan 15
     
    Kids gravitate towards technology-if your child heads straight for the video games or Facebook after school, you know what we're talking about. With a world of information at their fingertips nowadays, it seems like kids should be finding it easier than ever to succeed in school.
Chelsea Reineke

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Assistive_technology LD Teaching Special_Education disabilities

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  • What kinds of assistive technology tools are available? The term "assistive technology" has usually been applied to computer hardware and software and electronic devices. However, many AT tools are now available on the Internet. AT tools that support kids with LD include: Abbreviation expanders Alternative keyboards Audio books and publications Electronic math work sheets Freeform database software Graphic organizers and outlining Information/data managers Optical character recognition Personal FM listening systems Portable word processors Proofreading programs Speech-recognition programs Speech synthesizers/screen readers Talking calculators Talking spell checkers and electronic dictionaries Variable-speed tape recorders Word-prediction programs
  • Emily Suchecki on 01 Mar 13
     
    This website explains that technology for kids with learning disabilities can be beneficial. I can come back to this site to use the list of assistive technology tools available to help kids that come to me in substitute of or in addition to the regular classroom.
  • Chelsea Reineke on 22 Oct 14
     
    Provides technology resources for educators to use with students that have learning disabilities. It explains what assistive technology and also provides other resources to use.
Nikki Rickert

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  • 1. Best for Young Readersscholastic.com/stacks
  • 2. Best for Lesson Plansthinkfinity.org
  • 3. Best for Finding Booksbookwizard.scholastic.com
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  • 9. Best for Historyfree.ed.gov
  • 5. Best for Writingeducationnorthwest.org/traits
  • 6. Best Online Dictionarywordsmyth.net
  • 7. Best Math gamesnlvm.usu.edu
  • 8. Best for Geographyearth.google.com
  • 10. Best for Sciencensta.org
  • 18. Best for Moviemakingxtranormal.com
  • 11. Best for Middle Schoolfigment.com
  • 12. Best for Virtual Tripssmithsonianeducation.org
  • 13. Best Web 2.0 Tooledu.glogster.com
  • 14. Best for the IWBexchange.smarttech.com
  • 15. Best for IWB Newbiesprometheanplanet.com
  • 16. Best for Wiki Helpwikisineducation.wetpaint.com
  • 17. Best for Video Clipsteachertube.com
  • 4. Best for Craft Projectscrayola.com/educators
  • 19. Best Standards Helpcorestandards.org
  • 20. Best for Tough Topicstolerance.org
  • 21. Best PD On the Golearner.org
  • 22. Best For Your Careernea.org
  • 23. Best for Inspirationblogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching
  • 24. Best Reality Checkitsnotallflowersandsausages.blogspot.com
  • 25. Best for Teacher Giveawaysfacebook.com/scholasticteachers
  • Rebecca Stolz on 24 Oct 13
     
    This webpage has links that take you to places that provide an example to utilize in the classroom. It also helps with ideas for projects to do in the classroom.
  • Vanessa Brooks-Cobbins on 17 Feb 14
     
    More helpful sites. Not just ranging in tools for the class, but also, sites to help talk about tough subjects and some to help with inspiration.
  • Samantha King on 25 Sep 14
     
    I fee that this would be a great website for teachers to use because they can use it for their students. They can use many books, activities and art ideas.
Kaitlyn McGuinn

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  • These sites encourage students to have fun playing games while strengthening math, reading, writing, and critical-thinking skills.
  • target elementary and middle school students
  • free interactive materials and games that help kids practice reading and build their phonemic awareness.
  • Kaitlyn McGuinn on 06 Nov 15
     
    Helpful fun games for K-8th grade students. Besides reading a book you can play games that help with reading.
Meghan Mortell

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  • This self-described “toy” allows students to analyze word frequency in any text, from a poem to a science book chapter, by simply copying and pasting “a bunch of text” into the box on the top of this page. Click on “go” and you’ll get a snapshot of the most common words in that text as shown by size. (The most frequently appearing words appear larger.)
  • Tech Tips For Teachers: Free, Easy and Useful Creation Tools
  • 1. Visualize Texts
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  • 2. Make Content Comic
  • 3. Create Interactive Timelines
  • 4. Design Interactive Presentations
  • 5. Map and Brainstorm Ideas
  • Meghan Mortell on 04 Mar 13
     
    Ideas for teachers to make their students more adapt to using technology, ways to incorporate technology into a given lesson.
Keela Strouf

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  • One of her pre-service teachers even used the iPad to solve a problem with a disruptive student who made trouble in the reading center every morning. But when the teacher showed the student how to download books on the iPad, he read with focus for 20 minutes each morning – a goal he had not achieved until then
  • Anything new and different is engaging for kids,” said Nancy Davidson, a senior elementary education major at Wake Forest who used an iPad in her student teaching last semester. “Tracking student growth through apps, pictures and videos became more efficient for me and more interesting for the children. Using the iPad in class started as a luxury, but quickly became a normal part of their learning process.
  • Bennett’s pre-service teachers used the iPads in three ways:•Comparing students’ progress on identical tasks using the iPads, interactive whiteboards and desktops, to see if the less-expensive iPad would work as well.•In groups of two or three, working out a problem together. This approach required a set of rules (only one set of fingers on the iPad) and specific tasks for each team member. The group would capture an image of their work and store it in the iPad’s photo album for teacher review.•For the teacher only, taking the place of other digital displays. One teacher took photos around the school and flipped through as she explained geometric shapes occurring in the school and in nature.
  • Keela Strouf on 09 Nov 12
     
    This page shows how even if schools aren't able to buy enough iPads for every child in the classroom, with just one iPad teachers can improve classroom lessons and how their students learn.
Alyson Denman

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  • revalence of technology in children's daily lives requires parents and teachers to master new literacies, including keyboarding, word processing, Internet research skills, multimedia production, and social networking. Technology is proving to be valuable in support of effective reading and writing instruction, universal access to instructional materials, assessment, professional collaboration, and home-to-school communication.
  • renonevada21 on 06 Feb 13
     
    This site would be useful to use technology to help struggling readers.
  • Kali Stelse on 13 Feb 13
     
    "The prevalence of technology in children's daily lives requires parents and teachers to master new literacies, including keyboarding, word processing, Internet research skills, multimedia production, and social networking. Technology is proving to be valuable in support of effective reading and writing instruction, universal access to instructional materials, assessment, professional collaboration, and home-to-school communication. "
  • eversonha21 on 01 Apr 13
     
    This Website offers information about reading e-books. It is helpful since most classrooms have access ipads or tablets. Student often get excited to use technology, there for the are excited to read
Gina Molinaro

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  • Introduce your students to new ways of seeing the world with a cultural exchange between your class and another classroom anywhere in the world. Language skills Bring language to life with real-life conversations where students can practice a new language with a class of native speakers, or help English learners practice their skills. Discovery Try mystery Skype calls, where classes connect online and give clues to help each guess the other's location. Or introduce your students to a classroom in the location of a book they're reading or a subject they're studying.
  • Gina Molinaro on 04 Mar 13
     
    Skype can be very useful to teachers. they can use Skype to learn about different things around the world.
Stephanie Waller

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  • information technology allows learning anywhere, anytime; not just in one particular classroom for forty minutes a day.
  • students have access to the same tools over the web, they can reinforce the ideas by experimenting with the simulations themselves, any time, any where.
  • Technology allows the tables to be turned. Instead of teaching (push), students can be given projects that require them to learn (pull) the necessary material themselves.
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  • Make a PowerPoint presentation, record/edit spoken word, do digital photography, make a video, run a class newspaper, run a web based school radio or TV station, do claymation, compose digital music on a synthesizer, make a website, create a blog.
  • new digital world is the ability to work collaboratively on projects with others who may not be physically close. This can best be
  • The Internet permits free video conferencing which permits interaction in real time with sister schools in other countries
  • n technologies can permit them to break step with the class and go at a pace and order that suits that student better.
  • extbooks and three binders easily weigh over 25lb. A laptop computer weighs about 5lb and provides access to infinitely more material via its own storage and the Interne
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  • if education is about knowledge and intellectual skills, then information technology lies at the heart of it all. We have only just begun this transition. School will eventually look very different. Get ready.
  • tools for the same reas
  • ns you do. They need to write, read, communicate, organize and schedule. A student's life is not much dif
  • t. A 40Gb hard drive can hold 2 million pages with illustrations; the web is unfathomably large.
  • Technology is no substitute for an inspiring teacher.
  • If you disagree, or find things missing, my contact information is at the end.
  • Reason 1. Expansion of time and place
  • Reason 3. Learning vs. Teaching
  • Reason 2. Depth of Understanding
  • Reason 4. New media for self-expression
  • Reason 5. Collaboration
  • Reason 6. Going Global
  • Reason 7. Individual pacing and sequence
  • Reason 8. Weight
  • Reason 9. Personal Productivity
  • Reason 10. Lower Cost
  • we need both the paper books and the computer
  • Gina Molinaro on 04 Mar 13
     
    This website shows why technology is useful in classrooms and important for learning.
  • Morgan Fafinski on 09 Apr 13
     
    Ten reasons why technology is good.
  • Stephanie Waller on 08 Apr 14
     
    Using technology is a better way of learning. Students are more interested in learning using technology than not using technology.
Cassidy O'Brien

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Twitter teaching socialmedia education

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  • 28 ways to use Twitter in class.
  • utilizes Twitter to gather real-time feedback
  • end up projected right there during lectures
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  • allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands
  • This greatly aids studying, too, as they can easily refer back via dedicated classroom hashtags.
  • an excellent way for his students to continue class discussions after they’ve already ended
  • far easier to tweet changes, cancellations and other important announcements.
  • many students use Twitter now to alert their teachers about when they’ve finished their work
  • The 140-character limit offers a nice little challenge for students, and innovative educators and authors like have taken notice.
  • Word, trend or hashtag tracking:
  • ask them to actually tweet a response and open a discussio
  • Take notes:
  • For high schoolers and the college crowd, this assignment might very well help them discover some personal career goals.
  • Share a story:
  • The first tweets a sentence, the next builds off of it and so forth; try assigning a hashtag to make reading everything faster.
  • Keep parents informed: When teaching the younger set, parents may like to follow along with what’s going on in their children’s day. Keep a Twitter feed updating them about the different lessons and activities as they happen for greater engagement between the home and the classroom.
  • For kids just learning about distance, this makes for a lovely way to get them to know more about where everything is in relation to their own cities and towns.
  • ______ of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else “of the day” might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.
  • A common hashtag and communicative network is all it takes to share insight and recommendations.
  • Keep up with current events: Similarly, educators can set up lists with different news sources, allowing their students to stay on top of current events. Separate them by field for quicker access and even more comprehensive organization.
  • Set up a communal hastag for students and professionals alike to use and exchange their views and lessons.
  • Host a Twitter scavenger hunt: For fun and education, get students moving and organize a sort of Twitter scavenger hunts — maybe even see if other classrooms or professionals want to get involved. As with many of the projects listed here, such an activity can easily be applied to a wide number of grade levels and academic subjects.
  • Not only does it help them reflect on their lessons and their world, but it also serves as a nice, guided introduction to social media.
  • Help students get their names out: College professors hoping to nurture the professional future of their juniors and seniors might like the idea of teaching them the role of social media in job hunting. Business students into the whole “personal branding” fad will particularly benefit from comprehensively exploring such things.
  • Cassidy O'Brien on 08 Apr 13
     
    This article is talking about how to use twitter in a classroom setting and gives 28 different ideas on how to use it.
Kodi Porter

Technology Tools for Teaching & Learning - 1 views

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WebBased publish online discussion record

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  • Timetoast
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      Betsy Jordan on 03 Dec 13
       
      This website is able to provide a website where educators can properly use technology in their classrooms.
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  • Free account available. Visually appealing interface with extra features. Maps can be shared for collaboration, published, printed/exported as a pdf and embedded.
  • mindmeister
  • ree Google account. Create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, form or drawing. Organize into folders, publish to the web and share documents with other users. Supports existing document upload (word & powerpoint).
  • Google Docs
  • Amanda Gray on 11 Oct 12
     
    This website includes tools for teaching different web based technologies to students. Students can learn to create timelines, portfolios, books, record audio, etc.
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  • Raquel Coto-Valentin on 17 Oct 13
     
    Good lay outs and gives examples on what you want your students to learn from these web pages.
  • Alyssa Bohm on 01 Nov 13
     
    gives links and tips on different things teacher will want to know about. It also gives teachers ideas on what they can do with students through technology.
  • Hannah Monday on 11 Nov 13
     
    This website outlines many resourceful ways to use technology as a teacher. There are different learning goals that are laid out and it is very helpful when trying to decide what would work best in your classroom.
  • Andrew Tietz on 25 Nov 13
     
    This website gives a list of things that teachers would use technology for in a classroom, then under each different thing they would use, it gives a list of websites and applications that could be used.
  • Brandon Spahn on 10 Feb 14
     
    Different beta sites for teachers to try in the classroom
  • Kodi Porter on 10 Feb 14
     
    This is a good site because it has a lot of different things that you can look at that will help from web timelines to recording and editing audio.
Griep Kaitlyn

2nd Grade: Writing Sample 2 | Looking at Writing | Reading Rockets - 0 views

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second grade writing

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  • What does this child need to learn next? She may benefit from seeing different ways to organize factual information. The teacher may use a mini-lesson to show different examples of nonfiction animal books. This student, and the rest of her classmates, could look at nonfiction text features and try to use them in their own writing (table of contents, captions with pictures, bold words, close-ups, diagrams with labels, an index). This may motivate her to find more information about white sharks and think about how to organize it in a multi-page format. This would be an effective tie to a nonfiction reading unit.
  • Griep Kaitlyn on 17 Oct 12
     
    Strategies for helping a 2nd grader how to write
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