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"Designing Options for Every Learner: Universal Design for Learning"

Social Emotional Needs Entwined with Students' Learning, Security

CAST today announced the release of UDL Studio, a free web-based tool that enables anyone to author and publish educational materials that use the universal design for learning framework to flexibly respond to the needs of all learners.

"Learning in Hand is a resource for educational technology by Tony Vincent. From netbooks and web applications to iPods, iPads, and podcasting, Tony has put together practical information for educators."

Great resources! "Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2012 Presentations"

"Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We've combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share."

"The Read&Write GOLD training series walks learners through all of the features found on the Read&Write GOLD toolbar, including features for reading, writing and self-editing, study skills, and research.",  said Jon Blissenbach, Atomic Learning's VP of Product Business Development. "Our partnership with Texthelp allows us to offer this comprehensive training collection for learners with special needs." Videos are available for both the PC and Mac versions of Read&Write GOLD.  Each online training collection includes 2-3 minute videos for each of the features of this powerful assistive technology software, giving learners with special needs the opportunity to achieve and succeed in their learning goals

"A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age' The document, drafted by a dozen educators brought together by the MOOC pioneer Sebastian Thrun, proposes a set of "inalienable rights" that the authors say students and their advocates should demand from institutions and companies that offer online courses and technology tools. "

In response to a well-documented need to improve algebra learning, CAST this week released two innovative, research-based educational games that teach essential math reasoning and problem-solving skills. The puzzles-MathScaled and MathSquared-are now available through Apple's iTunes Store at no charge.

"Gateway to Language and Learning© is a series of pages sets designed for children and adults who communicate through the use of a augmentative and alternative communication technology (AAC). Created in 1997, Gateway© was the first core word page set designed for use on a dynamic display device. It continues to be the only communication page set designed from a developmental perspective. Authored by Joan Bruno"

"Michael Rosen meets parents, researchers and carers to explore the ways we communicate with people with autism or profound learning disabilities. Phoebe Caldwell talks about the principles of "intensive interaction", and why listening and non verbal communication are central to her work. Researchers at the Norah Fry Research Centre in Bristol explain why changing the way we communicate with people with disabilities can challenge preconceptions, and make relationships.."

Symphony of Science is a project that combines science videos with music to create new and novel ways to learn science concepts. The videos are from well known scientists like Carl Sagan and Bill Nye and the content shared ranges from dinosaurs, to astronomy, to global warming. Symphony of Science videos are an excellent resource to support science curriculum in the classroom of from home. Science teachers and students should take the time to watch these videos and bookmark this site because their library continues to grow.

"Welcome to the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities' Assistive Technology wiki. Here you will find links, vendors, stories, and virtually anything else that relates to Assistive Technology. EXPLORE, LEARN, ENJOY"

Jackie Gerstein's book created out blog posts on mobile learning

"finds age-appropriate educational content on any topic presented with interactive multimedia interfaces generates quiz questions based on student's research activity and skill level supports creation of research journals and concept maps for learning assessment "

Lon Thornburg's blog No Limits 2 Learning: Celebrating human potential through assistive technology blog

"For the past 12 years I have conducted an annual review of the special education technology literature. This work involves scanning the contents of 31 journals and capturing each article that I think is relevant to the work of special education technology professionals. After reading, analyzing, and indexing each article, I prepare an analysis of this one-year profile of the knowledge base. The purpose of this work is to answer the question, "What have we learned lately?" "

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