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Lauren Saxon

How the iPad can turn teaching special ed 'on its head' | VentureBeat - 0 views

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  • I had a student with Cerebral Palsy who only has proficient access to one finger,” Virani said. “The iPad comes along and 35 minutes after opening it from the box, he wrote his name for the first time — it was the first word he ever wrote. I thought if we can do this in 35 minutes, what can we do in nine months? The possibilities are endless when we have the right tools.”
  • The TabCam is a wireless streaming camera that captures and delivers live video to other devices. Virani uses the TabCam to broadcast lessons to and from anywhere in the room.
  • Students can access the content when they need a refresher or miss class and to collaborate with their peers. Teachers can use it to track their curriculum and share content with the class or with other schools. It also makes it easier to customize lessons for each student, and to engage parents and other teachers in their education.
  • Lauren Saxon on 23 Oct 13
     
    Students with special needs can make huge strides when given technology. TabCam allows teachers to broadcast lessons so that when students miss class or need a refresher, they can always access the original lecture.
Sarah Casto

What are the benefits of the iPad in the classroom? | INKids - 0 views

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  • 17 Benefits of using iPads in the Classroom
  • There are numerous benefits associated with the use of mobile computing devices such as the iPad and iPod. Many see the iPad as a versatile, powerful tool that is changing the face of education – both students and teachers have access to an unquantifiable amount of educational apps that can be purchased through the App Store. Content and material for all areas of learning from kindergarten through to university is readily available, offering a diverse method to deliver instructions and engage students.
  • Saving money by combining books, diaries, writing implements, calculators, word processors, etc. all in one media tablet.
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  • Education programs can be tailor made for each student.
  • School districts have been creative in finding ways to save money using the iPad. From digital textbooks, to tests and to homework, there’s the potential to save huge amounts of money through paperless innovation.
  • ts light weight and portability means it can easily be carried from class to class without having to close and reopen the screen. Data can be accessed while standing and notes can be taken on the go, thus extending learning far beyond the classroom.
  • Children are eager to embrace new technology and many are able to troubleshoot computer issues and resolve them quicker than adults.
  • Sarah Casto on 21 Oct 13
     
    This website shows the benefits of using an IPad in the classroom. It lists 17 extremely valuable things that they do for schools. This site is very beneficial to teachers.
Jenny Pflieger

Special Education / Assistive Technology Resources - 0 views

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Specialeducation technology resources reading writing communication classroom

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  • Jenny Pflieger on 14 Feb 14
     
    Additional site that provides information on assistive technology resources for Special Education students in the field of writing, technology, reading, and communication.
Jordan Moser

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  • helps teachers improve behavior in their
  • classrooms quickly and easily.
  • its free!
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  • interactive whiteboard, a computer connected to a projector, or even just a smartphone, tablet or iPod touch! The only thing you really need is some kind of computer device in the classroom (just one, for the teacher, is enough) and an internet connection.
  • free,
  • hello@classdojo.com
Jessica Dziubla

Project Tomorrow | Speak Up - 0 views

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  • rom Chalkboards to Tablets: The Digital Conversion of the K-12 Classroom is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2012. For the past few years, Project Tomorrow has used the Speak Up survey to diligently document the growth in educators’ access to emerging technology devices, tools and services, and how that increased familiarity has resulted in greater interest in digital learning. The Speak Up survey data has also highlighted the growing expectations of parents each year for interactive and collaborative digital learning environments that they believe are essential for preparing their child to compete in the global information society. And, we have shared information and research over several years about the widespread national interest in enhanced college and career readiness for all K-12 students. Given all of those positive conditions, why is there so much new fervor around digital conversions today? What makes today’s education landscape different than last year, the year before or five years ago? What is different?
  • Do you know? Ten Things Everyone Should Know about K-12 Students’ Views on Digital Learning Do you know? Ten Things Everyone Should Know about K-12 Administrators’ Views on Digital Learning
Kaitlin Nellessen

SMART Boards - Interactive Whiteboards - The Benefits of Technology for English Languag... - 0 views

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  • Effective use of the Smart Board technology can without question quickly produce increased student interaction and engagement with specific instructional material and can have lasting benefits on the classroom dynamic and cognitive development of the middle school age student population
  • In the 21st century not only do most K-12 students have or are in the process of acquiring technological literacy, but concurrently the use of technology has become the central focus of their lives
  • While the classroom should not become simply a conduit for students to further immerse themselves in technology, the classroom should not pretend technology does not exist as well
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  • tudents developing frontal cortex to better process the visual information the teachers are presenting
  • The use of interactive technology in particular, such as interactive whiteboards, can have concrete benefits
  •   The SmartBoard allows both students and instructors immediate feedback
  • At its core Smart Board technology is an interactive tool that allows students to truly be at the center of their own learning
  • A huge advantage of Smart Boards is the student’s ability to see their work displayed prominently in front of the classroom
  • While supplementing a students need for visual representations of instructional material, technology such as the Smart Board has the potential to inquire from students more detailed analysis of a particular subject. By allowing students to manipulate the Smart Board, students can be asked to directly participate in activities previously reserved only for the instructor
  • This particular study focused on elementary school classroom where 40 percent of students were classified as ESL
  • Some Smart Boards are embedded with a device called “Smart Network” that has spell check which allows students to engage in meaningful trial and error
  • students who were given access to the Smart Board technology over the course of the year displayed more pronounced improvements in grammar, than students who did not have the technology
  • Students with certain intellectual disabilities that historically have struggled in the classic classroom setting are allowed by the Smart Board technology to integrate their creative minds in a hands-on fashion, using the drag function to tangibly alter and refashion text and sentences
  • Furthermore, the researcher of this inquiry saw student vocabulary growth during the process as well.
  • During the teenage years, adolescent brains are transforming and Smart Boards can be used to bridge the gap between childhood and intellectual teenage creativity
  • Boards has the potential to dramatically increase overall student productivity and awareness of a particular learning segme
  • nt. The development of phonetic cognition is accelerated by interactive technology.
  • Technology has the potential to either bridge the educational achievement gap, or expand the academic inequality that we currently see permeating throughout our society.
  • Kaitlin Nellessen on 01 Oct 13
     
    Smart Board benefits for teachers and students.
usmcbound

10 Best Calculator Apps - 0 views

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  • scientific and graphing calculators, are under threat by the proliferation of highly capable calculator apps.
  • usmcbound on 11 Oct 14
     
    When I was a kid, there were no graphing calculators. In fact we couldn't use even simple calculators until my senior year. I think even Calculus can be taught. very effectively without graphing devices.
Katie Krzyvon

5 Ways the iPad Helps Children with Disabilities - 0 views

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iPad Classroom Apps

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  • SoundingBoard
  • Apple recently announced at their Education Event that 20,000 education apps have been built for the iPad.
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  • Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
  •  Little Writer,
  • But can it enhance real life experiences by helping maximize activities of daily living? Clearly, it can.  Together, developers, Apple, educators, and our government are helping pave the way for more breakthroughs in technology to come. For the special needs community and children born today with disabilities, the future seems especially bright.
  • Katie Krzyvon on 24 Sep 15
     
    A helpful apps to use in a classroom to help students with special needs. Also, it describes how iPads in the classroom are beneficial. 
wisemankn18

Technology in Education - Education Week - 0 views

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  • While there is much on-going research on new technologies and their effects on teaching and learning, there is little rigorous, large-scale data that makes for solid research, education experts say. The vast majority of the studies available are funded by the very companies and institutions that have created and promoted the technology, raising questions of the research’s validity and objectivity. In addition, the kinds of studies that produce meaningful data often take several years to complete—a timeline that lags far behind the fast pace of emerging and evolving technologies.
  • For example, it is difficult to pinpoint empirical data to support the case for mobile learning in schools—a trend that educators have been exploring for several years now—let alone data to support even newer technologies such as tablet computers like the iPad. The studies that do look at the effects of mobile technologies on learning are often based on small samples of students involved in short-term pilots, not the kind of large-scale, ongoing samples of students that educators and policymakers would like to see (Education Week, Feb. 23, 2011).
  • However, there are a handful of large-scale studies that do point to trends and observations in the education technology field. For example, Project RED, a research initiative linked closely with the One-to-One Institute, which supports one-to-one laptop initiatives in K-12 schools, released a study about successful implementation models of education technology in October 2010. That study found that most of the schools that have integrated laptops and other digital tools into learning are not maximizing the use of those devices in ways that best make use of their potential. The report goes on to outline the critical steps needed to capitalize on that potential (Project RED, 2010).
  • Matt Langlie on 24 Feb 14
     
    This article discuses how the pace of technological advances are increasing dramatically. It also discusses technology differences between schools and it explains how some are excelling while others are falling behind.
  • wisemankn18 on 21 Sep 15
     
    Research on technology in schools
Kellyn Brink

Tablets vs. Textbooks - ProCon.org - 1 views

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  • As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed over whether K-12 school districts should switch from print textbooks to digital textbooks on tablets.
  • Proponents of tablets say that they are supported by most teachers and students, are much lighter than print textbooks, and improve standardized test scores. They say tablets can hold hundreds of textbooks, save the environment by lowering the amount of printing, increase student interactivity and creativity, and that digital textbooks are cheaper than print textbooks.
  • As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed over whether K-12 school districts should switch from print textbooks to digital textbooks on tablets and e-readers.
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  • Proponents of tablets say that they are supported by most teachers and students, are much lighter than print textbooks, and improve standardized test scores. They say that tablets can hold hundreds of textbooks, save the environment by lowering the amount of printing, increase student interactivity and creativity, and that digital textbooks are cheaper than print textbooks.
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      Kellyn Brink on 22 Sep 15
       
      I agree with being able to have one device that can hold several important things, including school textbooks, instead of having to carry around 4 or 5 textbooks all day
  • Opponents of tablets say that they are expensive, too distracting for students, easy to break, and costly/time-consuming to fix. They say that tablets contribute to eyestrain, headaches, and blurred vision, increase the excuses available for students not doing their homework, require costly Wi-Fi networks, and become quickly outdated as new technologies are released.
    • Kellyn Brink
      Kellyn Brink on 22 Sep 15
       
      I also agree here that a tablet can be a huge distraction to kids, especially with how popular social medias are these days.
  • littlejojs15 on 30 Jan 15
     
    Textbooks will always be useful in my opinion. Tablets can be used in many situations. I will always prefer turning the pages of a book but most students want to learn and read more from tablets.
  • Kellyn Brink on 22 Sep 15
     
    This article is talking about whether to switch from textbooks to tablets for school aged kids. There are pros and cons to this debate.
Meghan Berther

Using Technology to Enhance Teaching & Learning - 0 views

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  • Blackboard SMU uses the course management system Blackboard.  For help creating Blackboard courses and learning the basics, consult Academic Technology's Blackboard help page, as well as this Blackboard online tutorial. Access your Blackboard courses here. Presentation Software Sometimes it's helpful to provide visual aids to complement teaching, stimulate discussion, or allow out-of-class teaching. Tools designed for this purpose, such as PowerPoint, can be used well or used badly. Click here for resources that provide advice for thoughtful use of PowerPoint, as well as a few additional presentation tools. Classroom Response Systems ("clickers") One way to encourage student engagement is by using electronic devices that allow students to record their answers to multiple choice questions and allow you to instantly display the results. The anonymity encourages participation, and their answers help the teacher know when further discussion is needed.  Use of clickers can also serve as a catalyst for discussion.  Click here to learn more about using response systems effectively.
  • Converting a Face-to-Face Course to an Online Course Teaching online, whether in a hybrid course or a wholly-online course, requires different techniques and different tools.  Without the F2F contact, professors will need to be even clearer about setting and articulating expectations for digital work and participation.  Encouraging interaction between professor and student and among students is an additional challenge, as is monitoring student learning as the course progresses.  The online environment requires the use of basic technologies to digitize course materials as well as mastery of the university's learning management system.  And various tools like Skype allow synchronous communications, while blogs and Twitter can encourage asynchronous interaction.  Here are some ideas to get you started.
  • Ashley Miller on 12 Feb 14
     
    Enhance teaching and learning using technology
  • Luke Pagel on 10 Sep 14
     
    A lot of these points align with our class!
  • Meghan Berther on 06 Nov 14
     
    This site gives some examples of technology you could use in the classroom. This includes Presentation Software, Blackboard, etc.
Karissa Gonio

How Technology Is Helping Special-Needs Students Excel | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

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  • "Kevin can be far more involved in group activities. He can converse with his peers, participate in class discussions, and do his homework, no matter where he is. This has increased his ability to be an independent member of the school and the community."
  • traditional assistive technologies have converged with consumer technologies
  • today's smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices come equipped with universal access functionality, making it possible for users to deploy built-in or easily downloaded assistive technologies.
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  • speech recognition, screen-reading tools, Braille displays and text-to-speech solutions for the visually impaired; and sound amplifiers, closed-captioning applications and video conferencing technologies that facilitate sign language and lip-reading for the hearing-impaired
  • speech recognition
  • In fact, many technologies designed for mainstream use can be successfully repurposed to teach students with disabilities.
  • access to assistive capabilities on technologies that are smaller, more mobile, more ­integrated and inexpensive
  • "We're no longer limited to helping one particular student with a single specialized technology,"
  • allow the school to better and more easily integrate special-needs students into general education classes,
  • Nuance's Dragon NaturallySpeaking, which reads text back to them; Livescribe Smartpens, which capture everything spoken in class and written by the student;
  • interactive whiteboards
  • helps motivate and engage ­students in the subject they're studying.
  • helps her determine their level of understanding.
  • academic improvement
  • keep up with their peers.
  • achieve greater levels of independence; gain confidence; more willingly reach out to their teachers and peers to ask questions and collaborate; self-advocate; challenge themselves; and seek out new opportunities.
  • Karissa Gonio on 30 Jan 15
     
    Discusses how technology has helped students with many disabilities gain independence and grow in the classroom.
Benjamin Anderson

15 Examples Of New Technology In Education - 0 views

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technology Education teaching tools

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  • Flashnotes allows students to upload their lecture notes and sell them to other students who need more help or resources. The rating system allows the best note takers to get more business and the general pool of knowledge expands as students continue to share their work with one another.
  • Study Blue’s main attraction is that it is mobile. Whether standing in line for coffee, riding the train, or waiting at the dentist, a student can easily access their class work and prepare for an exam. The social aspect also helps students find other people studying similar subjects, capitalizing on a different set of notes and study guides.
  • Despite the rising popularity of tablets, Google’s Chromebook may snatch the competition in the lower grade school classrooms. The laptops have a few distinct advantages over the apple iPad: -They are less expensive -One-button-push easy setup -Easy to control settings and restrictions -Offers the traditional keyboard for fast typing and note taking -Hardware fixes are easier and less costly
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  • While not a technology per se, this teaching model is using technology to change the way instructors teach. Rather than spending the class time lecturing the students, the lectures are delivered to the student’s in video format for them to watch at home (or in study hall). Then, the classroom time is set aside for 1 on 1 help, discussion, and interaction based on the lecture homework. With nearly every student carrying a mobile device or laptop, this model may give students and teachers more time to work on areas of difficulty rather than simple straight lecture. For too long, instructors have seen that precious class time go to waste while a teacher scribbles on a blackboard and has their back to the students.
Michael Kelly

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  • The interactive whiteboard acts as both the monitor and input device, allowing you to control any application by touching the screen
  • NOTE: Depending on the model of your SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the Ready Light is either located on the right side of the SMART Pen Tray or the lower-right of the frame bezel.
  • TIP: To clear a large area of digital ink, draw a circle around the area you want to erase with the eraser and tap once inside that area. All digital ink inside that circle will disappear.
Erica Meier

SecurEdge Networks | 8 Studies Show iPads in the Classroom Improve Education - 0 views

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  • iPads have swept through almost every industry, especially education. Apple is pushing for iPad use in education, and several schools across the US have taken up the charge. The proliferation of iPads in the classroom will only keep accelerating. With these powerful mobile devices come a lot of possible benefits for educators and students alike
  • iPad technology in the classroom can be a powerful tool for learning and comprehension. The interactivity it provides can make for a very engaging experience, definitely for elementary school aged students. I think we will only continue to hear more studies and stories about how the use of iPads in the classroom is improving education. Classroom technology like iPads really does make an incredible learning tool.
  • Erica Meier on 24 Feb 15
     
    This is another article showing how iPads have integrated into US in many classrooms.
Chelsea Reineke

Assistive technology for kids with learning disabilities: An overview - Assistive techn... - 0 views

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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.
Cassie Immel

7 Fun Ways to Use Technology in the classroom to enrich learning - 0 views

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technology fun classroom

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  • Using mobile devices like iPads and tablets you can keep students involved with all sorts of educational games for just about any subject.
  • Video in the classroom can really help create a clearer and more complete picture for students. YouTube is a great tool for this; chances are you can find a video clip to compliment any lesson there.
  • 5) Podcasts
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  • Technology in the classroom is the best learning tool.
  • time for studying
  • letting students use them in group work
  • Utilizing technology in the classroom is a great way to bring your class to life.
  • Jordan Jackson on 23 Feb 15
     
    Ways to integrate technology into the classroom
  • Cassie Immel on 07 Apr 15
     
    why should you use technology in the classroom. ideas on what to use and how to use them. 
Amber Dorman

5 Tips to implementing iPad technology in the classroom - 0 views

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  • iPad in the classroom is not to come take over your classroom, nor is it to replace your teaching
  • A great way to increase acceptance and help educators to get familiar with the device is to have training classes led by an expert.
  • just a learning tool and that some lessons are best taught without them
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  • Allow your teachers to integrate them at their own pace
  • important for educators to show them how to filter and think critically about the information they are finding
Ashley Bullock

10 Ways to Help Reduce Bullying in Schools | CPI - 0 views

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  • 1. Have a Clear Definition of Bullying.
  • schools need to have a common definition of bullying.
  • Bullying, on the other hand, is an imbalance of power
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  • Ensure that the person who is doing the bulling knows what behavior is wrong, why it’s wrong, and what the consequences are for engaging in the behavior.
  • 2. Remove Labels: Address Behaviors.
  • Cyberbullying is the “use of any electronic device to harass, intimidate, or bully another”
  • 6. Engage Parents.
  • State rules in positive terms, Keep the number of rules to a minimum (3–5 depending upon age), Set rules that cover multiple situations, Make sure rules are age appropriate, Teach your students the rules, Set an example for rule-following behavior, and Be consistent in enforcing the rules
  • Rules need to enforce respect, responsibility, and safety
  • 4. Reward Positive Behavior.
  • reinforce good behavior
  • 5. Have Open Communication
  • A school can also provide nonverbal cues. These can include interior decorations like signs, it can include teachers and staff, and it can include the exterior of the school.
  • 3. Set Clear and Enforceable Rules and Expectations.
  • Keeping parents informed about their child’s grades, friends, behavior, and even attitudes in school is an important tool when addressing behaviors.
  • 7. Look for Warning Signs.
  • Are you constantly breaking up the same kids? Do you get to the bottom of what goes on? Have there been changes in these children’s attitudes?
  • 8. When Bullying Occurs, Clear the Scene.
  • Bullying is not going to end right away.
  • Be persistent and consistent about stopping i
  • 9. Monitor Hot Spots.
  • areas like hallways, bathrooms, playgrounds, and busses.
  • 47.2% of bullying occurs in a hallway or stairwell and 33.6% of bullying happens in the classroom (Mahoney, 2012). 20% of bullying situations occur on school grounds
  • 10. Know Your State Law and District Policies.
  • That’s why 49 out of 50 states currently have bullying laws in place
  • Bullying can be reduced.
  • Ashley Bullock on 07 Oct 15
     
    Here are 10 ways to help reduce Bullying in a school near you. 
Kayla Kilps

Nearpod: Create, Engage, Assess through Mobile Devices. | Interactive Lessons | Mobile ... - 0 views

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  • Kayla Kilps on 28 Oct 15
     
    Great tool for teachers if school provides iPads. Students can view and interact with presentations in the class.
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