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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

The Hechinger Report

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning. Every computer and iPad has it.”.

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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. Couple this with the lack of instruction from teachers certified in content areas, he said, and learning suffers.