Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 15, 2020

provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. For example, users can convert text to audio files, making them available anywhere. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Christopher Bugaj Assistive Technology Specialist, Loudoun County Public Schools One way for educators to meet the needs of students is to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into their instructional practices. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 2, 2019

provide assistive technology (such as a calculator, text-to-speech tools, and electronic dictionaries). HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. For example, users can convert text to audio files, making them available anywhere. offer an alternative answer sheet.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 23, 2016

Special education teachers are more likely to use mobile apps with their students than general education teachers, but are not receiving enough formal training on the use of mobile technology for instructional purposes, according to a report released today as part of a new initiative examining the role of mobile technology in special ed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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? You’ve said that these technologies present both a challenge and an opportunity.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 25, 2017

Mobility-related disabilities. Not all of these can affect the learning process, but limited mobility of hands can hinder users’ experience online. For example, if you create a simple Google Document, don’t just bold and increase the font-size for the title and subtitles, but use the settings in the upper ribbon instead.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On the flip side, technology caused stress in families where parents became navigators for students who could not use assistive technology independently. Take for example a teacher who records a video demonstrating algebra equations on a whiteboard. He is still meeting with mobility instructors.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

2 Mobile Devices —Mobile devices in education can be controversial. Some benefits of mobile devices include the ability to view textbooks, research, participate in Internet-based class assignments, and create media-rich projects. 3 Wearable Technology —Wearable technology is an up-and-coming trend in edtech.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Furthermore, the materials we had selected to share with clients in our office had been carefully selected and designed to demonstrate positive representations of our clients, their unique attributes, cultural diversity, different abilities, mobilities, areas of strengths and needs, and areas of interests.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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. When did they last log in?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2023

Furthermore, the materials we had selected to share with clients in our office had been carefully selected and designed to demonstrate positive representations of our clients, their unique attributes, cultural diversity, different abilities, mobilities, areas of strengths and needs, and areas of interests.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 18, 2019

These include impairments in hearing, vision and mobility. Special ed teachers rely on assistive learning devices to address the needs of student challenges. Referred to as assistive technology (AT), these devices are often decidedly low tech. Pencil grips, adapted paper and spelling aids all assist with writing.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The following tips provide strategies for using technology to create inclusive learning environments. Assistive technology, by definition, relates to any equipment that supports a child with a disability and increase or maintain their functioning in different settings. However, merely throwing tools at a class is not enough.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Here's mine as an example.) This allows users to be able to create Collections from their mobile device, albeit the options are more limited than the full website version of Wakelet. I've created a Collection that demonstrates how the mobile app works , which is also embedded below: How could you use it?

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, Select paragraph. Google Docs Mobile App). Did you know that Voice Typing works on mobile?!! Students who have mobile devices can dictate directly into their device. Just look for the microphone icon on your mobile keyboard to start dictating. Exclamation point. Question mark. New paragraph.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 29, 2015

It is also the home to a number of competitions like the Assistive Technology and Fall STEAM Challenges , which invite community members to collaborate and create across the globe. One example of the collaborations on Thingiverse is the creation of the Robohand. million downloads per month.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

For example, research suggests that taking notes by hand may be more effective than typing (though this is not yet definitive ). What’s more, effective classroom tech doubles as assistive technology for students with a range of special needs. For example, an inkjet printer is often very inexpensive to buy.

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N2Y

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Orientation and mobility services. For example, they may participate in psychological, educational, and speech-and-language evaluations to determine areas of need in academic subjects along with communication goals. In this example, the OT is a related-service provider who helps the student achieve two types of IEP goals.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JANUARY 6, 2023

As a result, mobile device-optimized eBook readers are one of the most downloaded apps on both Android and iOS devices. On the other hand, eBooks are digital files, and all one needs is an eBook app to access learning resources on their mobile device. What better way is there to convey this message, than by setting an example.

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