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Book Review- The Practical (and fun) Guide to Assistive Technology in Public Schools: Building or Improving Your District’s AT Team

SpeechTechie

This review originally appeared on the PediaStaff Blog Book by: Christopher R Bugaj and Sally Norton-Darr Note: I read this book on my iPad''s Kindle app! Specifically, this book includes: Specific details of the AT Specialist’s job description, as well as pertinent terms and definitions. books consultation'

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Take a "Peek!"

SpeechTechie

It''s definitely a plus when we can up the engagement and fun on these types of interactions with students. Today, let''s look at Evernote Peek , an app that allows you to make fun little quizzes with an ingenious use of the iPad. Write the definition or answer in the body of the note. What does that word mean?

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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

“A lot of people worry that technology will take the place of the teacher, but I think it’s exactly the opposite,” said math teacher Kaswell. Kaswell’s class is known as the STEAM lab, for science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Every computer and iPad has it.”. It’s definitely been hard for them,” Kaswell said. “It

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Technology in the Classroom: The Complete Guide

ViewSonic Education

There has always been technology in the classroom, even if it hasn’t always been welcome. Take a brief look at the history of technology’s uneasy relationship with education. Continue reading to learn everything you always wanted to know about technology in the classroom. . There has always been technology in the classroom.

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Read and Write for Google

SpeechTechie

not on an iPad, though Text Help just released an iPad app that I will need to explore). For SLPs, I especially like the vocabulary tool that will collect highlighted vocabulary words within a document and add them to a new document with definitions and pictures for each word. assistive technology vocabulary writing'

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

The definition of "easy" will depend on the target age. Can the content be interpreted by assistive technologies? To determine whether a digital learning tool works with various assistive technologies, many operating systems have built-in AT features under “Settings.” Is it easy to operate?

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newsela

SpeechTechie

You can access it through a web browser or free app for iPad. newsela is a very nice resource of electronic news articles designed with education in mind, another e-resource to have in your toolkit along with EPIC! Books and ReadWorks. The site offers quite a lot to educators for free, and a "pro" tier is available.

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