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Removing Barriers: Assistive Technology Tools to Support Reading & Writing for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
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2. Removing Barriers: Assistive Technology Tools to Support Reading & Writing for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities
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4. "Ball point pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The virtues of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.”
6. SpeakUp 2009 use social based learning for learning and personal lives access to untethered learning digitally rich learning using relevancy-based digital tools, content & resources that allow for self directed learning Project Tomorrow (2009)
11. Barriers to Learning & Opportunity ..impaired access, participation and progress in learning, social connectiveness, and employment
12. Barriers to Learning & Opportunity “prepare for an environment where they will spend more time reading and using information on the internet than they will reading from a printed book”
18. Universal Design for Learning Multiple Meansof Action & Expression Student - Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas. Teacher - Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know
19. Universal Design for Learning Multiple Meansof Engagement Student - How we get engaged and stay motivated. How weare challenged, excited, or interested. Teacher - Stimulate interest and motivation for learning
20. Universal Design for Learning CAST - Center for Applied Special Technology http://www.cast.org National Center on Universal Design for Learning http://www.udlcenter.org
24. Universal Design for Learning Multiple Meansof Representation Student - How we gather facts and categorize what we see, hear, and read. Teacher - Present information and content in different ways
28. AT ReadingTool Features Digital, customized text Read text aloud (text to speech) Dictionary & Thesaurus Text to audio capabilities Scanning to text
37. Universal Design for Learning Multiple Meansof Action & Expression Student - Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas. Teacher - Differentiate the ways that students can express what they know
55. Universal Design for Learning Multiple Meansof Engagement Student - How we get engaged and stay motivated. How we are challenged, excited, or interested. Teacher - Stimulate interest and motivation for learning
Johannes Gutenberg – 1440first mass production of books3600 pages per day compared to 40 by hand printing / few by hand-copyingintroduced era of mass communication –increase access to knowledge – broke the monopoly of the literate elite1620 Francis bacon would say “changed the whole face and state of things throughout the worldno dyslexia before the printing press
Mrs BarnesWe have witnessed a range of innovations in education since Gutenberg’s printing press – ball point pen / ink well monitor
Thomas Friedman"flatteners" that he sees as leveling the global playing field – personal computingconvergence of computers / internet / globalisationdigital nativesSpeakup 2010Not reflected in what is happening in schools – precieved lack of sophisticated use of emerging technologiesDesktop computers still most prevalent
survey to identify and measure literacy linked to social and economic characteristics of people – 15 to 74 year olds46-47% had literacy levels below ‘functionalliteracy’ – that is, the literacy skills necessary to met the complex demands of everyday life and work in the emerging knowledge-based societylinks between employment / income / use of technologylink with health literacy – 60% functioning below minimum requirements required to understand and use information relating to health
emerging and developing technologies delivering compensatory strategiesLiteracy support tools for reading and writing text to speech, spelling and grammar checkers, word prediction, speech recognition
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trainingaccess – physical and socio-econoicUDLassessment
Work Habits / BehavioralCognitive SkillsReading and WritingBasic Computer SkillsConsistency of SpeechLanguageSupport and Training