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Measuring Student Engagement with Digital Tools

ViewSonic Education

Artificial Intelligence and virtual assistants within education can play a role in helping to measure how engaged students are in a class. The data that can potentially help educators better understand student engagement includes the number of clicks per user, or the number of words typed. ViewSonic Education.

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EdTech that transforms access for physically disabled students

Neo LMS

Undoubtedly eye-gaze technology has created the greatest advance in access for people with serious immobility such as those suffering paralysis or ALS. In fact eye-gaze technology is now being preferred even by students with limited mobility due to its increasing accuracy and ease-of-use. Accessible gaming.

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Assessments Become More Accessible With Speech Synthesis—and an Almost Human Voice

Edsurge

Häkkinen leads the Accessibility Standards and Inclusive Technology Research Group at ETS, the 60-plus-year-old nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization that administers K-12 state exams along with the well-known GRE and TOEFL, among other tests. How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content?

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Don Johnston Incorporated Joins Texthelp Group; Edtech Giants Join Forces to Help Students Across North America and the Globe

eSchool News

10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Texthelp , a global leader in literacy and accessibility technology, today announced that they will acquire the Education Technology Division of Don Johnston Inc., a leading assistive technology and special education curriculum company based outside of Chicago, IL. WOBURN, Mass.,

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7 principles for AI in education

eSchool News

AI technologies used in education should account for educational equity, inclusion and civil rights as key elements of successful learning environments. AI technologies used in education must protect student privacy and data. Two panel discussions were also conducted. The panel AI in the Classroom: What is it? How is it Made?

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Think "Out of the Box" Assistive Technology #SXSWedu

EdTechSandyK

Relevant Meaningful 21st Century Tasks (PBL) and relevant data provided to teachers so they can continue to customize learning. With time, tech tools, and access to one another, teachers could solve many of the problems we face in education today, including addressing students with special needs.

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

Edsurge

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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