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A Helping Hand: Assistive Technology Tools for Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

I don’t write enough about special needs so when Rose contacted me with an article idea, I was thrilled. In this article, Rose writes about a little-known problem that students may unknowingly suffer from that may make it look like they are plagiarizing when–to them–they aren’t.

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A Helping Hand: Assistive Technology Tools for Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

I don’t write enough about special needs so when Rose contacted me with an article idea, I was thrilled. In this article, Rose writes about a little-known problem that students may unknowingly suffer from that may make it look like they are plagiarising when–to them–they aren’t. 50 Special Needs Tools.

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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

As an article for the Digital Learning Institute explains , the metaverse has been a game changer for immersive learning because classes can both be delivered and accessed in a virtual setting. The concept of online onboarding in the workplace is also likely to follow the pattern of online learning and move into the metaverse space.

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How to create accessible e-learning design

Neo LMS

Many visually-impaired people use screen readers or other forms of assistive technology to navigate web pages, and heading tags are easier to interpret by such technology. Here’s another example: Check this article if you want to know more about anchor text. Here’s an example: Find more information about anchor text here.

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newsela

SpeechTechie

newsela is a very nice resource of electronic news articles designed with education in mind, another e-resource to have in your toolkit along with EPIC! Books and ReadWorks. The site offers quite a lot to educators for free, and a "pro" tier is available. You can access it through a web browser or free app for iPad.

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Research to Better Support Your Students with Reading Disabilities

edWeb.net

A fundamental problem in identifying individuals with dyslexia is that existing operational definitions of reading disability produce unstable phenotypes-meaning someone could be identified as having a reading disability during one test, but not during a second test. This article was modified and published by eSchool News.

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

The definition of "easy" will depend on the target age. Can the content be interpreted by assistive technologies? To determine whether a digital learning tool works with various assistive technologies, many operating systems have built-in AT features under “Settings.” Is it easy to operate?