Shake Up Learning
JULY 5, 2022
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. Looking Ahead.
Edsurge
AUGUST 10, 2017
It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious book-digitizing project in 2002. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.
eSchool News
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia. Principals should make sure teachers get the training they need to use the assistive technology. “If Develop Guidelines. Early intervention is ideal for students with dyslexia. Ensure Proper PD.
Ask a Tech Teacher
JUNE 10, 2015
If we look at a standard day in any classroom, the activities and assessments are all channelled through writing. From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. They then may move on to reading a poem and answering questions. I tried numerous different solutions.
EdTechTeam
NOVEMBER 21, 2017
When I first began my job as an Assistive Technology Coordinator in my district back in 2008, the lines between educational tech and assistive tech were pretty crisp. Again, some students do just fine with one type of assessment, but what about the learner who is visually impaired, or has severe motor disabilities?
N2Y
JULY 9, 2020
Assess expressive vs. receptive skills. When students are limited in their expressive verbal communication (the words a student can express or produce), it can be unclear initially how much they are receptively understanding or what they might be capable of learning if given an appropriate level of visual support or assistive technology.
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