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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. This includes assistive technology devices.

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Thirteen Writing-with-Tech Tips You Don’t Want to Miss

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are thirteen of the top writing-with-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: A Helping Hand: Assistive Technology Tools for Writing. Revision Assistant–the Most Comprehensive Virtual Writing Assistant Available for Students. Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning.

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mARch: Augmenting with Aurasma, Part 2- Making it Your Own!

SpeechTechie

If you are creating a video aura of speaking about a book connection, as I modeled above, a Common Core Connection for you: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.4.4 apps assistive technology augmented reality Common Core curriculum connections description digital storytelling images sentence formulation story grammar'

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mARch: Augmenting with Aurasma, Part 1.

SpeechTechie

See my other posts detailing other features of Aurasma: -Part 2: Augmenting visuals with your own images/video -Part 3: Making text "auras" Oh, and by the way, there''s a Common Core Connection : CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.2

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Come to the Mobile Learning Experience in September 2013

The Mobile Native

This year''s topics include project-based learning, assistive technologies, Common Core State Standards, Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT), and the open content revolution. Those topics are in addition to basic sessions on the most compelling apps, device deployment, and training tips and hints.

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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. Until recently, for instance, classroom tech tools known as assistive technology, or AT, designed to aid children with disabilities, were frequently clunky and expensive, said Dr. Sean J.

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Mobile Learning Experience 2012 - April 11-13 in Phoenix, Arizona

The Mobile Native

Read more about the call for proposals.