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The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education

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Here’s what your students can achieve in an inclusive classroom that provides these devices: Enriches communication Various assistive technologies support hearing, reading, and writing, enriching communication between you and students with deafness, hearing loss, language disorder , or speech impediment.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

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In this post I would like to introduce you to way that you can ensure the standards are amplified, and not ignored, by the integration of educational technology. I have also included links to over 45 valuable resources (Towards the bottom of the article). For this reason I will refer to it as finding the technology in the standard.

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How to Run a Parent Class

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help them understand how technology supports the school’s mission and overarching curricula (such as Common Core or Everyday Math). Springboard this activity to a discussion about digital citizenship. Four Ways Teachers Can Stay Connected With Their Student’s Parents Using Technology. Build Your Wild Self.

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Touch-Typing: Rote vs Integrated Learning or Rote and Integrated Learning?

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It isn’t about Rote Learning vs Integrated Learning since the two go hand in hand and when facilitated with regard to the context that such learning can take place (time available, resources, prior student knowledge/skill) it becomes highly effective. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. Homework is increasingly done online, tapping into resources that might have been compiled a state or even a country away. Parents can digitally tap into not just grades but assignments.

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Screen Time in School: Finding the Right Balance for Your Classroom

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But I could also add links to helpful videos or other resources about comma usage, right in the doc where they're the most beneficial to students. In this case I’ve used technology to augment -- but not change -- the content of the lesson. can also be a helpful resource for families.

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What are Good Tech Goals for Students?

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But that’s not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It’s the pencils and books of our digital world. The metric for measuring technology skills isn’t a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.