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6 Benefits of Immersive Learning with the Metaverse

ViewSonic Education

What’s more, the metaverse itself can be accessed using a variety of devices. However, true immersion is not guaranteed, and issues, such as accessibility, are always important to consider. With that being said, metaverse learning is a relatively new concept and one that many educators are still getting to grips with.

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Improving Accessibility Often Falls to Faculty. Here’s What They Can Do.

Edsurge

But a common problem prevented that: some faculty have been slow to catch up with technological advances, and many wait until students ask for accomodations rather than having accessible materials from the start. “I That’s especially concerning to her, given assistive technologies alone won’t always help.

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

Plus, the students who struggled with attention didn't miss out on any information since they could access the content through the voice-over, the visuals in the video, and the text in the captions. An app for young kids, for example, should have large buttons and not too many options on the home screen. Is it easy to operate?

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Wakelet

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

You can use Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or just use your email address. Here's mine as an example.) Another new feature utilizes Microsoft's " Immersive Reader " in order to read aloud your Collection ! Collaborators can be given access directly via their Wakelet profile name or email, or indirectly via URLs and QR codes.

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Expert Roundtable: Dispelling the Myths and Misunderstandings About Dyslexia

Reading By Example

Some of the most imaginative, brilliant, and highly successful people who have ever lived are believed to have had dyslexia, for example, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Steven Spielberg, John Lennon, and Jamie Oliver, to name several. There are so many assistive technology tools to support students with dyslexia.

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Top Tech Tools for Kids Who Struggle to Read and Write

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether you’re using something like Read and Write, or Snap and Read, these are some great tools that can be used to access text in Google Docs or on the web. What will they get, for example, with Read and Write? Select Voice Typing, and give your microphone permission to access it. Vicki: OK, so tell us. Start talking.

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The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

Edsurge

Businesses and organizations are providing free access to digital tools and apps for teaching and learning (see THE Journal’s ever-growing list of Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak ). They may not be aware that their use of these technologies might violate students’ privacy rights and put them in unsafe situations.