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6 Cases of Interactive Digital Whiteboards as an Assistive Technology in Special Education

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Quick Take: Learn about assistive technology in special education. Assistive technology in special education can bring much-needed help to teachers who have students with disabilities or providing special education services. Understanding Special Education and Assistive Technology.

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What is Digital Accessibility? (And Why It’s Crucial at Schools)

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Digital accessibility is about ensuring that all users can perceive, use, and operate web content, software, mobile apps, and other forms of digital media. Someone with a disability must be able to experience web-based services, content and other digital products with the same successful outcome as those without disabilities.” .

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How Automated Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

Edsurge

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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COVID-19 Is Costing Visually Impaired Students Time That Can’t Be Made Up

Edsurge

On the flip side, technology caused stress in families where parents became navigators for students who could not use assistive technology independently. A huge focus for me is training teachers to use educational technology in a way that’s effective with students that use assistive technology.”

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Change the Game: Using Minecraft to Teach Students with Autism

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Modern research has continued to demonstrate that playful learning improves educational outcomes, even more so when it’s digital and multi-modal. Modern research has continued to demonstrate that playful learning improves educational outcomes. I’ve certainly found that to be true in my years teaching non-traditional learners.

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How Speech Recognition Could Change Studying Forever

Edsurge

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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Top 10 Education Tech Trends in 2022

Kitaboo on EdTech

For instance, students with vision impairment can use assistive technologies like Braille screen readers and electronic magnifiers to access learning the same way any other student would. . A lot of data collection and data analytics work goes into this process, but the learning outcomes till now have been great.

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