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Immersive Reader: A powerful tool to support schoolwide literacy

NeverEndingSearch

Such a partner is Microsoft EDU’s Immersive Reader, a growingly popular tool that presents scalable, friendly, flexible, stigma-free solutions to improve literacy schoolwide. Microsoft Accessibility And Assistive Technologies For Education: A Total Economic Impact Analysis. Katherine McKnight, Ph.D.,

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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. What’s present and what’s absent?” So it’s not like my projects have to come to a screeching halt in 1923,” he says.

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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. It’s the night of the final class of her course, “Children with Special Needs: History and Practice.”

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Read Works Provides Access to Handy Text Passages

SpeechTechie

Expository text passages are handy for language intervention. There's a lot you can teach with a passage as a context! So, where to get the contexts?

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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. About the Presenters. Researcher: Sierra Noakes, Senior Research Project Manager, Digital Promise.

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Innovative Communication Techniques for Individuals with Autism

edWeb.net

About the Presenter. Our mission is to help others successfully implement research-based applied behavior analysis (ABA) techniques. This broadcast was hosted by edWeb.net and sponsored by Monarch Center for Autism , STAR Autism Support , and VizZle. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Dr. Howard C. Shane, Ph.D.,

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