Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

million goes to San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District to fund principals’ innovative ideas, hiring computer science and math teachers, developing college and career guidance and buying assistive technology for special education. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) September 1, 2016.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 9, 2016

After that we have a post that shows how technology can help improve student writing. Mar 13, 2016, 4143 Is #EdTech Really A Waste? Apr 3, 2016, 3888 Collaboration, Tools, and Add-Ons. Mar 16, 2016, 2904 Everybody Panic! Mar 16, 2016, 2904 Everybody Panic! There are a few more to round out the top.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 18, 2019

Launched in January 2016 as a bold Microsoft Hackathon idea, Immersive Reader , incorporates current reading research and inclusive design principles. Microsoft Accessibility And Assistive Technologies For Education: A Total Economic Impact Analysis. And librarians can lead in its implementation and integration.

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ProfHacker

APRIL 1, 2016

— Twitter (@twitter) March 29, 2016. Alternative text works with assistive technologies like screen readers , where a description of the image is read out loud by the screen reader. Starting today, anyone can make Tweets with images accessible to the visually impaired: https://t.co/mAnehClSNR

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Funding in both districts will go toward hiring math and computer science middle school staff, buying assistive technology for special education students and supporting college and career programs. million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5 million goes to Oakland Unified School District. in 2014 to 3.05

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

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. Lab Invent It Challenge is March 18, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. She and her classroom assistants constantly push themselves to adopt a different mindset, which school leaders say has been key to narrowing the gap. This includes assistive technology devices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The goal of the class is to introduce students to technology. Sarah filed a complaint with the state and went through mediation, which earned Brad the chance to use assistive technology, allowed him to make up some of his failed classes and paid for private tutoring and an outside evaluation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The Accessibility Journey at the University of Hartford Vicki: So, on your campus, at the University of Hartford, on October 2016 you formed and worked with an organization to start helping your campus be more accessible. Bevin: Our institutional goals that we had for the year 2016, we have a strategic plan put in place.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Our teachers work in classrooms where, reading levels may span four grade levels, more than half of our classrooms include ELL students, more than 70% of classrooms have special needs students, up to 50% of a teacher’s time might be spent addressing students’ needs, including the use of assistive technologies.

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ProfHacker

MARCH 28, 2018

[ This is a guest post by Michelle Morgan, who is Assistant Director of Educational Technology at Yale University and Adjunct Professor of American Studies at Connecticut College. A colleague recently sent out an email discussing a 2016 article regarding the digital-versus-hardcopy debate, Lauren M. Singer and Patricia A.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

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. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

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