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Assessments Become More Accessible With Speech Synthesis—and an Almost Human Voice

Edsurge

EdSurge spoke with Häkkinen about the impact of new speech synthesis technologies on student assessments, and how his company is making the most of them. EdSurge: First, when we say “assistive technologies,” what exactly are we talking about? How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content?

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Learning with Google: Announcements for 2021

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

For example, a staff member with the T & L upgrade who creates a Google Meet can have breakout rooms AND a non-upgraded staff or student attending such a Meet would still be able to interact in those breakout rooms; however, if a non-upgraded staff member creates a Meet, breakout rooms are not an option.

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3 Ways to Motivate and add Narrative Complexity to Writing through Emoji

SpeechTechie

This is one example of how features previously only available as "assistive technology" have turned out to be incorporated in operating systems to benefit everyone. Equip your Mac or Chromebook with Emoji If you have a Mac, the Mac App Store has a free app called Emoji Lite. Within Google Docs EasyPeasy.

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Back to School with Choice Boards – SULS0121

Shake Up Learning

She also shares choice board examples and product ideas. Find ideas and examples in this episode. Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . Choice Board Examples. Examples from Kim Mattina. Examples from Jen Giffen. Jen Giffen also chimed in with some unique examples to take a look at.

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

An app for young kids, for example, should have large buttons and not too many options on the home screen. Examples include through the audio or the visuals, an option to print or read a transcript of text, a magnifier on the text, or through access to information from the images.) Chromebook Accessibility Features.

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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

Five years ago, these tools were considered purely assistive technology [for children with special needs]; now everyone’s using them. For example, many digital books come with a prerecorded audio version of the text. For so long, special education and assistive technology has been for ‘those kids over there.’

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Educators Want More Mobile Technologies for Classroom Use, Better PD

Marketplace K-12

Generally the type of ed tech those surveyed reported using most for instructional purposes were iPads, Chromebooks, desktops or laptops, and electronic whiteboards. Therapeutic professionals said the type of technology they most often used for instructional purposes were iPads, desktop or laptops and specific assistive technology devices.