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Google Apps and Chromebooks for Special Education and Special Needs

Educational Technology Guy

Chromebooks and Google Apps are excellent assistive technology (AT) that help students with special needs access curriculum and information. Google Apps and Extensions in the Chrome Web Store provide many supports to students with learning challenges. Chromebooks allow students to access curriculum while avoiding their triggers.

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Snow Day? 7 Ways to Keep Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

For example, Wabash County issues all students MacBook Airs and iPads (your school could use Chromebooks) that are available to students who can’t get to school: All Wabash County students in grades 3 through 12 have a MacBook Air they take home every day. Google Hangouts. Google Classroom. It is browser-based but work.

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Long Live the '90s: ‘Edtech’ Crazes Every Teacher (and Student) Secretly Wishes Were Still Around

Edsurge

2017 Equivalent: Google Drive. 2017 Equivalent: We’d say MacBook Airs are the modern G3 equivalent, but Chromebooks rule the classroom these days. We know we still have Google and everything, but posing direct questions to you just made so much more sense. USB Flash Drive. Whatever the “cloud” is. Dry Erase Boards. Undoubtedly.

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Now Take Notes on Drive Videos with VideoNot.es – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

can be tied to a Google Drive account, all notes can also be saved and shared with others. works with YouTube, Vimeo, Coursera, Udacity, Khan Academy, and EdX videos. By manually changing the URL, students can now take notes on Google Drive videos! We lead Google, web tool, and Chromebook workshops throughout the year.

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Otus–Exciting Free LMS You Want to Meet

Ask a Tech Teacher

works across all platforms–iPads, web, Chromebooks. plays well with a wide variety of apps, such as Khan Academy. full access to Google Drive. You can access it with a Google log-in. easily monitors student progress, work, and learning. includes reminders of activities. student and teacher blog platforms.

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Here’s how this NYC teacher moved his tech-centric class online

eSchool News

I had a SMART Board in my room, and when students would walk in at 9:30 each morning, I’d have a Google Slide projected that showed what was expected of them over the first hour or hour and a half of school. It’s no different in a Google Hangout. I can see you’ve done six minutes of Khan Academy and you’re supposed to do 40 every day.

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Active Learning in the Math Classroom

techlearning

PRODUCTIVE STRUGGLE Kirt Thomason, math teacher and district math coach at Burlington Township (NJ) Middle School, is piloting an “in-class flip” with Khan Academy this year. PHS teacher Jeff Rose introduces Google Classroom and Padlet to make students’ thinking more visible. Google Classroom ? Khan Academy ?