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AT and UDL: Acronyms for Equity

EdTechTeam

When I first began my job as an Assistive Technology Coordinator in my district back in 2008, the lines between educational tech and assistive tech were pretty crisp. I worked exclusively with students in special education classrooms who needed a way to access the curriculum or a way to communicate effectively in the classroom.

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Annual Invent It challenge launches, focusing on solving health problems

eSchool News

Specifically, the challenge encourages them to tackle issues such as nutrition, the importance of sleep, preventing the spread of disease, street safety, screen time, assistive technologies, mental and emotional health, sports safety, healthy air and water and elder health. Highlights from the 2015 Invent It! There are 1.4

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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. I was offered a job closer to home in 2015 as a 6th-grade science teacher at Bondurant Middle School in Franklin County. Recently, Wakelet now allows multiple ways for users to collaborate on the same Collection.

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Thingiverse: Discover, Make, And Share 3D Printer Designs

TeachThought - Learn better.

October 29, 2015 — MakerBot Thingiverse, the world’s largest 3D design community, reached a landmark one million uploads and 200 million downloads on its platform. Thingiverse: Discover, Make, And Share 3D Printer Designs. by TeachThought Staff. From a press release. BROOKLYN , N.Y., million downloads per month.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

They are often placed in separate classrooms within public schools and spend large numbers of hours on computers using technology that is not aligned with their specific needs. There are children like Caleb and his GNETS classmates all over the country — with diagnoses including ADHD, bipolar disorder and, increasingly, autism.