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Fighting Exclusion: Shake Up Inclusive Learning – SULS0164

Shake Up Learning

The school needed his expertise to help keep its assistive technology up and running as it was a school for children and adults with disabilities. In the beginning, Mike fixed wheelchairs and such, but as technology expanded so did his work assisting students with disabilities. About Mike Moratta. Twitter : @mmatp.

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Renaissance and Learning A-Z Partner to Promote Literacy

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Raz-Plus , the blended learning platform from Learning A-Z, which contains thousands of technology-enabled resources for personalized reading practice, will be integrated in Renaissance Flow 360 , an assessment-driven instruction solution.

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10 steps for making your online courses accessible for all students

eSchool News

And in engagement and interaction , an instructor is enabled to tap into students’ interests, challenge and motivate them to learn. In other words, educators need more than just assistive technology to create a UDL-friendly online course.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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The FuelEd/Modern Teacher partnership will help districts leverage digital solutions to prepare students for the 21st century by offering greater opportunities for personalized and blended learning. GradeCam can now read and grade responses that have simply been written out by hand. No bubbles required. Illuminate 11.0

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Secrets of Accessible Online Content You Need to Know

The CoolCatTeacher

Bevin: For an online platform, what it means to be accessible is your images have alternate text, and descriptions , where whoever is a non-seeing user that uses assistive technologies such as a screen reader, can read the descriptions of to them.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

The rise of collaborative learning environments within hybrid and blended learning models is another notable development in K-12 technology trends. While the pandemic did cause learning loss, it also pushed forth an increased use of online and hybrid/blended learning technologies for students.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ironically, many families also said that the very technologies designed to help students with disabilities — known as assistive technology — are seldom part of a GNETS education. Related: Technology offers help in special ed . I wish we had discovered the assistive technology earlier,” Exline said. “It