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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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We’ve now taken the boring task of learning Braille and turned it into a game,” says Schultz, co-founder of Boston-based educational games maker ObjectiveEd. We’re changing the dynamic so that a kid is looking forward to learning.” According to Crunchbase , global investment activity in assistive technology has grown from $118.5

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ASHA 2013 Update- from a Techie Point of View!

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ASHA 2013 in Chicago is in the books. Additionally, WiFi was in my experience generally accessible in conference rooms, and free to boot! This session always focuses on facilitating access to curriculum for LLD students through a strategic language-based focus. It was great traveling to one of my favorite cities for this event.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. A settlement that would have created a Book Rights Registry and made it possible to access the Google Books corpus through public-library terminals ultimately died, rejected by a federal judge in 2011.

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Wakelet

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

Collaborators can be given access directly via their Wakelet profile name or email, or indirectly via URLs and QR codes. Students could use Collections as a way of saving research, composing mini-"hyperdoc" essays, creating an online portfolio of learning artifacts, or collaborating with team members on resources while working through a PBL.