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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?

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Five years ago, these tools were considered purely assistive technology [for children with special needs]; now everyone’s using them. Every computer and iPad has it.”. For so long, special education and assistive technology has been for ‘those kids over there.’ And the reason is, everyone has access to it.

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

The Hechinger Report

On a recent morning, Rockhold and two teaching assistants cycled through a series of silly, animated songs, each a precursor to technology-aided exercises, where students answered a series of questions using their tablets or the interactive white board at the front of the class. This includes assistive technology devices.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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GRADECAM ENHANCED ANSWER FORMAT ( www.GradeCam.com ) GradeCam introduced a futuristic new answer format powered by Aita – their proprietary Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant technology – that can read and score handwritten letters and words up to twenty characters in length.

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