Do students with learning differences really need an i pad (1)
- 1. Session Code: ET-10 Do Students With Learning Differences Really Need an iPad? Rick Weinberg Rick_weinberg@caboces.org Twitter: @rickweinberg February 1st, 2013 Handouts are available at: www.atia.org/orlandohandouts 1 1
- 2. I’d Like to Learn About You
- 3. A little about me Rick Weinberg • Work • Education • Publications
- 4. Screenshot Collage of Publications
- 5. Well, it depends 1) goals of and for the student 2) student's needs 3) what are the person's gifts 4) what’s affordable
- 6. Why am I doing this? • Lack of plan • Personal Reasons • Some Observations • Making a mobile device not mobile • The wow factor • Instruction vs. Compensation (Brian Wojcik and Dave Hohulin) • Bloom’s Taxonomy
- 8. Here is what I mean QuickTime™ and a libx264 decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 9. The Majority of What I do • Is help with reading and writing
- 10. Dyslexia Research • A decade ago, Shaywitz, author of Overcoming Dyslexia, demonstrated in her research that fully one in five students has the condition, with males and females sharing it in roughly equal numbers. Dyslexia makes it difficult for a person to retrieve or correctly order the basic sounds, or "phonemes," of spoken language (like the "k," "aah," and "t" sounds that make the word cat, for example).
- 11. Does your student need help writing? 1) Does the child need physical help with the act of writing 2) Does the child need help with idea acquisition? 3) Does the Child need help with “getting ideas down on paper?”
- 12. If the Student Needs Head Tracking QuickTime™ and a AVC Coding decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 13. Dragon Naturally Speaking PC Version or an iDevice Version
- 14. Speech to Text QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture.
- 15. Speech to Text on a Mac
- 16. Google Search for Spelling
- 18. Bubbl.us
- 19. Popplet
- 20. We want everyone to participate
- 21. One of the Best Resources is: • Bookshare.org
- 22. Bookshare.org Can be used Both • On the Computer or on a Mobile Device
- 23. Bookshare is free for
- 24. Did you know that
- 25. Just about every Library has • a way to sign out books online. 25
- 26. NYPL.org 26
- 27. The Three Things I use at NYPL 27
- 28. One way to do that 28
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- 31. Librivox 31
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- 36. Text to Speech 36
- 37. Text to Speech on a Mac 37
- 38. Accessibility Settings on an iPad QuickTime™ and a decompressor are needed to see this picture. 38
- 39. What if you have an older iPad • and/or the operating is not updated • or cannot be updated 39
- 40. iTunes University 40
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- 43. Resources • Qiat.org 43
- 44. Resources Continued 44
- 45. Twitter #ATchat 45
- 46. My Information Rick Weinberg rick_weinberg@caboces.org Twitter @rickweinberg 46
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