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students with reading disabilities can also use screen readers

International Study

Student Organizations

Employment Opportunity

Financial Aid

Future Teacher Program

Strategic Partnerships for Safe Schools and Communities Initiative

Additional resources for undergraduate students

Start Class with a Mind Warm-U

find the mistakes planted in material written on the board

Use Movement to Get Kids Focused

Teach Students How to Collaborate Before Expecting Success

Use Quickwrites When You Want Quiet Time and Student Reflection

Run a Tight Ship When Giving Instructions

Use a Fairness Cup to Keep Students Thinking

Use Signaling to Allow Everyone to Answer Your Question

Use Minimal-Supervision Tasks to Squeeze Dead Time out of Regular Routines

Mix up Your Teaching Styles

Create Teamwork Tactics That Emphasize Accountability

2. Do Repeated Readings in Class

4. Enlist Tutors to Help Out

5. Try a Reader's Theater in Class

Choosing one of these platforms enables teachers and students to transport their learning between home and school, as well as ensure that their creations can be shared with a wider audience.

With the proliferation of laptops, Chromebooks, and tablets, we have the potential to create new and diverse learning artifacts such as audio, video, and interactive media.

How we communicate and connect beyond the walls of our classrooms and the immediate geography of our schools plays a critical role in the structure of our ecosystem.

Embrace Connected Learning - The concept of "Connected Learning" is at the center of a new theory that champions say "is a model of learning that holds out the possibility of re-imagining the experience of education in the Information Age" that draws on "the power of today's technology to fuse young people's interests, friendships and academic achievement." According to Dr. Mizuko Ito, a leader in the field of Connected Learning and a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and cultural anthropologist of technology use, examples of Connected Learning are when a teacher may ask a student to do a report on their favorite video game, or if a kid who likes to draw on the computer creates the signs and banners for a classroom party.

Email Article To From Note Privacy & Terms How to Help Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom The 5J Approach By Mary Burns / September 2010 Print Email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on more var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true}; Comments (2) Instapaper (function() { var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0], rdb = document.createElement('script'); rdb.type = 'text/javascript'; rdb.async = true; rdb.src = document.location.protocol + '//www.readability.com/embed.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(rdb, s); })(); Recent reports (from The Chronicle of Higher Education and Walden University [PDF], for example) point to teachers' continuing difficulties integrating technology into classroom learning. Despite access to technology and despite the fact that novice teachers are entering the classroom with far more advanced technology skills than their counterparts of an earlier age, only 39 percent of teachers report "moderate" or "frequent" use of technology as an instructional tool (Grunwald Associates, 2010).

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,

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.