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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

4] Principals should be in the loop on things like access to the curriculum for special education, need for assistive technologies, and other accommodations. Educators should be sure to provide a checklist or task analysis for parents when they make these assignments.[8]. Strategies for When Special Education Moves Online.

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How edtech can worsen racial inequality

The Hechinger Report

Take facial recognition technology. Research has shown that facial analysis algorithms and datasets perform poorly when examining the faces of women, Black and Brown people, the elderly and children. When used by police for surveillance purposes, the technology can lead to wrongful arrests or even deadly violence.

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

Edsurge

Through the HathiTrust Research Center , scholars can tap into the Google Books corpus and conduct computational analysis—looking for patterns in large amounts of text, for instance—without breaching copyright. He’s also vice provost for information collaboration and a professor of history there.

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

They’ve been taking turns presenting on disabilities such as dyslexia, brain injuries and deafness; Noble gave hers, on assistive technologies for children with physical disabilities, last week. Her 24 classmates smile and wave as they log on from different states. You are in your own class right now,” Eckert says.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Diamond: When her district identifies a need, her team does an exhaustive competitive analysis, using an RFI and not an RFP, to see what products will work. She has 20 years’ experience in strategic communications, writing, and policy analysis, primarily in education.

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Building an Effective EdTech Strategy - Bring together workload, collaboration, and education

ViewSonic Education

The lessons that ViewSonic learns from supplying technology to the corporate sector, and to education sectors across the world, are applied to what we do in the UK. These lessons would be much harder to learn, and to teach were it not for a steady flow of information between us and our schools and businesses.

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Innovative Communication Techniques for Individuals with Autism

edWeb.net

Teaching Students with Autism is a free professional learning community that provides ideas and resources for teachers working with students with autism, particularly advances in technology that can lead to significant breakthroughs in communication and learning. About the Sponsors.

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