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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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6 Assistive Technologies That Can Help Students Reach Their Full Potential

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6 Assistive Technologies That Can Help Students Reach Their Full Potential. students enrolled in special education programs rose 30 percent. In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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When Universal Design Promotes Inclusion of All Students

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Recently, EdSurge met with field experts, all part of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), to discuss how they leverage edtech to provide an inclusive learning environment for all students. The result: He eventually graduated college as an English major. Bugaj adds that all students can benefit from these tools. “If

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How to ReMake Your Classroom and Inspire Hands-On Learning in the New Year

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Assistive technology specialist, Neal MacKenzie, has seen firsthand how collaborative Making creates more equitable learning experiences in all kinds of classrooms. He works with visually impaired students in California’s Sonoma County, where he says that “technology has leveled the playing field.” We couldn’t agree more.

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

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And print-disabled users can use assistive technologies to read scanned books that might otherwise be difficult if not impossible to find in accessible formats. Courant and others involved in the early days of the scanning work acknowledge both the benefits and the shortfalls.

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50 predictions about what 2025 will bring to edtech, innovation, and everything in between

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–Chris Klein, VP of Educational Services, Avantis Education (Creators of ClassVR ) 2025 will be a pivotal year for education technology as districts face increasingly constrained budgets and difficult decisions about their technology investments. With more than 20 percent of U.S.