eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. This model engages classroom teachers as well as reading teachers, math teachers, behavior intervention specialists, and assistive technology specialists, to name a few.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2018

Academically, an investment at the elementary age can keep students reading on level; emotionally, it gives them confidence and makes them feel included with their peer group. Fiscally, addressing students’ needs now could mean avoiding excessive special ed costs in the later years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

At one elementary school she supports, Duffy collaborated with the speech pathologist to design a Breakout that required general education students to use the communication tools that their non-verbal peers use daily. What can they say when they don’t feel heard by the group? What strategies can they use to calm down if they get frustrated?

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

3 Wearable Technology —Wearable technology is an up-and-coming trend in edtech. Wearable technology covers a wide range of items—from assistive technology for students with disabilities to devices to encourage motivation and participation.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Assistive technology teachers working at schools in the Fairfax County, VA school district, one of the largest in the United States, are finding that the use of audiobooks is improving access to grade-level content while also developing the love of reading that motivates many students to continue improving.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. I worked very diligently over the course of my high school career to familiarize myself as much as possible with the inner workings, complex nuances, and the design principles of many forms of assistive technology.

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Some of these neurodivergent children have already been unable to fit into Elementary School Jewish Day School and attend public schools or other non-Jewish private schools. Imagine being a parent of a child who has been asked to leave a JDS in lower elementary school and is now grading 8th grade, ready to re-enter a JDS.

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edWeb.net

JULY 18, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Turn Struggling Readers Into Leaders Using Assistive Technology , Gavin and Marley, two middle school students, along with dyslexia specialist Dana Blackaby, presented on their use of assistive technology that helps struggling readers. We’ve done this a lot at different schools,” Gavin told us.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. This model engages classroom teachers as well as reading teachers, math teachers, behavior intervention specialists, and assistive technology specialists, to name a few.

Education 64

Education Assistive Technology Meeting Examples 64

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Field Elementary, where nearly one out of every five students is classified as having some sort of a disability, has actually managed to do this. This includes assistive technology devices.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

Optimize access to tools and assistive technology. . Summer VACAY Bingo (Anderson One Instructional Technology Team). Elementary Digital Playground: Tic-Tac-Toe (Sarah McKinney). Foster collaboration and community. Offer alternatives for auditory and visual information. . Vary the methods for response and navigation. .

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Poor education for special education students typically starts in elementary school, most often with a student not being given the services to which they are entitled or not being properly diagnosed. When Brad was in elementary school, he said he wanted to go to MIT and become an engineer. He graduated high school this year with a 1.9

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Inspiration in all its versions is particularly appropriate for upper elementary through adult learners, and is often recommended as an Assistive Technology (AT) tool. A number of other narrative teaching visuals demonstrated in the article can also be created with Kidspiration and Inspiration.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2018

A high school librarian collaborating with a local music mentorship program to teach youth in special education classes how to code music with assistive technology. Public librarians in a rural community teaching coding languages to help youth engineer and operate a FarmBot robotic gardener.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Academically, an investment at the elementary age can keep students reading on level; emotionally, it gives them confidence and makes them feel included with their peer group. Finally, administrators can look for ways to pool resources from different budget streams to assist students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

His areas of interest are learning, ICT, video and Assistive Technology. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. He was a teacher and a special education teacher before moving into tertiary education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. STEM opportunities are on the rise for young learners as elementary and early childhood programs increase exposure to STEM activities and careers.

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SpeechTechie

AUGUST 9, 2016

This past year I was involved with a productive assistive technology and language consultation regarding a student who LOVED to be in all of his classes. He just needed support to participate verbally.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 23, 2016

But special education teachers said they were more likely to use the iPad and other assistive technologies for instructional purposes than general education teachers, who were more likely to use light tables or overhead projectors and screens and their own websites. The SpedApps initiative is also developing two apps of its own.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It was developed by a school psychologist as an assistive technology for students with ADHD and autism but is a helpful tool for any student. School Tool Box has done all of the legwork to help your elementary school student prepare for their first day back in class.

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SpeechTechie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Overall, this type of interactive provides a visual contextual support for you to target objectives around description, sequencing, and cause-effect, while providing students (particularly upper elementary, MS, and HS students) additional review of classroom topics.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. How do you approach purchasing education technology tools? Currently, Dr. Rob serves as Principal at South Park Elementary Center outside of Pittsburgh, PA, and has truly become a sought-after leader in topics surrounding the field of education today.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Freedman has come to see sketchnoting as a bridge between early elementary, when students necessarily think visually because they are still learning to read, and middle school, where suddenly all visual thinking seems to stop. In the end, many of her students chose to sketchnote.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

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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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. STEM opportunities are on the rise for young learners as elementary and early childhood programs increase exposure to STEM activities and careers.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

SpeechTechie

MARCH 12, 2016

Expository text passages are handy for language intervention. There's a lot you can teach with a passage as a context!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Products that use voice assistant technology to measure a student’s language comprehension and creation skills are one example. Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Services can include access to assistive technology, small-group instruction, extra time to take tests and a range of therapies. More than 7 million students nationwide are entitled to special education services in K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. –Dr. .

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