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Nipissing Nipissing UniversityUniversity
September 24, 2007©Janice McDonald-Zavarce
I'm thinking write but I'm thinking write but I'm rightin' wrong: I'm rightin' wrong:
AT and the UDL ClassroomAT and the UDL Classroom
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" Failure is not an Option", Dave L. Edyburn, ISTE.org
"Achievement gap". What we know....
-contemporary - not effective
-doing what we have always done will perpetuate the gap
-repeated failure makes it even more difficult to erase the damage,
-move to technology to support performance (as well as cognitive support i.e.Digital-visual organizers)
-attitude bias- 'Naked Performance‘- some teaching staff insist that using technology is ‘cheating’ and students only ‘really’ know it when they can do it without technology.
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Education for All: Expert Panel Report
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Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/
contrast
Curriculum Immigrants
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Digital Natives
Digital Immigrants
"Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants"Marc Prensky, www.marcprensky.com
age?
brain structure
skill level
aware of benefits, therefore question 'authority‘
Curriculum Natives
Achievement
Achievement
Gap Narrows
Gap Narrows
Digital Natives
Curriculum Natives
Terms:
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threats
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UDL
scaffolding
Education for All: Expert Panel
Assistive Technology-Any hardware or software which enhances/allows for access to the curriculum
Adaptive Technology - as above with more emphasis on adaptations to existing software and hardware such as switches, magnification etcAT
Koos Winnips - "analogy - learning to swim with a life preserver and then slowly letting out the air.
Best place to start. On line in PDF. Chapter 10 will (need) to be updated at "Tools for Learning". See list of sites at end.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) resists a one-size-fits-all approach to education, and posits instead that teachers, educators, and materials should effectively respond to the individual differences inherent within a learning environment.
Multiple means of representation - acquireMultiple means of expression - demo Multiple means of engagement - the affective network
Also see the Canadian links in this Wikipedia entry!!!
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Overview of commonly used AT software (SEA)
1. Word prediction and cueing plus...2. Speech to text.
Goes beyond a graphic organizer.
Famous for reading features-study skills perhaps most useful.
WordQ /SpeakQ
InspirationKurzweil 3000, Version 10
Software Demos
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Open first, every time.
Going beyond graphic organizers.
"Failure is not an Option" pdf.
how to make.isf
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Factual Recount: Scaffolding provides students with structures, organization.
healthiest city to live - brainstorm.doc
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Reading Strategies: Focus on good instructional strategies- not the software
key point exchange - teacher activity.isf
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Kurzweil: Kurzweil: How can it integrate with Word Q and Inspiration? Remember: Open WordQ first.
* Kurzweil can read various types of information (text, KESI, Web)
* Reading TaskbarReading Taskbar allows for the Web to be used as a resource
* Information scanned and read in Kurzweil can be transferred to an open Inspiration diagramby dragging and dropping on to the (bottom) taskbar
* Information can be extracted to a note in Inspiration
* Kurzweil uses bubble notes to reinforce reading strategies. Open “Sample Documents” , Horse’s Tale with Bubble Notes’ to learn about bubble notes.
•WordQ/SpeakQ provides support for all text entry in •all programs.
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Planning and Researching with AT suite
02 web - weather.isf 02 web - weather.isf
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http://www.linktolearning.com - Ontario curriculum, K - 12 now.
http://www.inspiration.com - Check out Tony Buzan's mindmaps.
[email protected] or [email protected]
http://www.setbc.org
http://www.iste.org – “Failure is not an Option”
http://www.novemberlearning.com/ Ideas, where is AT going.
http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx
http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/
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http://fno.org/dec99/scaffold.html- Jamie MacKenzie, excerpt from new book, Chpt 19 Scaffolding for Success
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