Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. A second question has been given almost equal importance: Is reading a book to students online even legal? The short answer is, well, yes.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. Then students can decide whether they would enjoy listening, reading, or watching information on this topic. They can find a podcast (e.g., Listenwise), an online article, or a video on biodiversity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

on a recent Wednesday, and the school stage hadn’t yet transformed into a reading room. But this year, a group of fifth graders were instead sitting on the school’s stage, reading aloud about the life of Rosa Parks as they worked on reading fluency and comprehension. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Checking for understanding When students watch a video or read a long block of text online, they may need help to understand what they are learning. That discussion could draw the attention of other students–making my students feel self-conscious–or it might be disruptive.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2017

Hopkins likes to read singable stories—songs in the form of a book—to target goals in young students like reading comprehension, reading pace, and sustained attention. “Music therapists use music to target non-musical goals,” Hopkins explained, “Those goals can really vary depending on the population.”.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

“A disability may be the result of combinations of impairments and environmental barriers , such as attitudinal barriers, inaccessible information, an inaccessible built environment or other barriers that affect people’s full participation in society [i].” of Australian undergraduate students reported having a learning disability.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of software tools for students with sensory or learning disabilities. Amazon Polly supports SSML, which helps you create lifelike speech that will attract and hold the attention of your audience.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.” One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. More than 50 years of research has illuminated the most effective way to teach children to read.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2019

Federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) , as well as state allocations and local funding, give schools access to resources to support students with special needs. The select-to-speak option lets students, or their aides, highlight blocks of text, which the device then reads aloud to the student. .

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, the National Education Association found nearly every general classroom across the country includes at least one student with a disability. Students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be easily distracted, making it hard for them to finish homework and other tasks. Over the past 10 years, the number of U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

All my students were learning how to read, and the captions helped them connect the audio to the visual representation of text. Plus, the students who struggled with attention didn’t miss out on any information since they could access the content through the voice-over, the visuals in the video, and the text in the captions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Read part one and part two. Educators noted that, with the increase in expectations of students, they were also increasing the demands on parents, since most students with disabilities needed support from parents to execute remote lessons—from setting and regulating their students' schedules, to helping them access (i.e.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2019

Technology helps educators give each student the attention he or she needs, through tools such as online learning modules, personal tablets and, now, virtual and augmented reality. . Attention deficit disorder is a rising issue among K–12 schools. Virtual and Augmented Reality Help Students Focus.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The country regularly ranks among the highest in mathematics, science and reading on international tests like the PISA exam. NeuroSky , a Silicon Valley-based company with operations across Asia, showed off headsets that measure brain waves through biosensors to gauge a person’s state of attention.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

I do this as a Black non-binary person with multiple chronic illnesses, who is read as an able-bodied Black woman. We examine the influence of the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and migration on these Black women educators’ experiences based on the seen and unseen elements of the participants in this study.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention. Encourage students to do annotations — to read with pen or pencil or highlighter. On a positive note, such tools could greatly assist students with learning disabilities. They will literally rewrite your words to that audience or that purpose,” says Watkins.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

With paper- and pen-based tests, it’s quite hard to read the results and takes a lot of time. Already, it’s caught the attention of investors, who just this March injected $5.6 The main purpose is to find kids that are struggling with reading early on.”. Educators] ask, ‘Who are the kids we think have difficulties?’

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Library innovations in the 21 st century include building a space that students actually want to inhabi, whicht is imperative to facilitating their learning and curiosity when it comes to reading. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Students sit at desks wearing electronic headbands that report EEG data back to a teacher’s dashboard, and that information purports to measure students’ attention levels. Theodore Zanto, a professor of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco, had two words when he first read through the company’s website: “Holy s**t.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2019

There are more than 711,000 books—and counting—in Bookshare , a digital reading platform for people with reading barriers including dyslexia, blindness or cerebral palsy. Among its main social-impact missions is to ensure that educational texts—print or digital—are accessible to every learner, regardless of impairment or disability.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

WASHINGTON (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ello , developer of the world’s most advanced AI reading app, will be donating iPads, hundreds of early-age children’s books, and free access to the Ello app at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and Children’s National Hospital to help support children hospitalized during their long-term care.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

Some efforts to foster neurodiversity on campus build on programs college administrations have long bolstered, like offices for disability services. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York. That’s the piece that’s lacking as far as support.”

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

However, verbally presenting one's ideas and listening to contributions made by student peers are not typical experiences for online students, as most activities in online classes consist of reading and writing. Supporting students with disabilities is not only an important social justice issue, it is the law. Supporting All Learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 2, 2023

The Role of Assistive Technology in Promoting Inclusive Education Persons with disabilities may struggle with coordination problems, short attention spans, and limited mobility, which may or may not be obvious. Some disabilities include blindness, deafness, dyslexia, and autism. Let’s find out below.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Amid my anxiety, I could not read the room during classwide discussions. I believe my disabilities are not a burden to my teaching practice because I know the importance of scaffolds, accommodations and universal design learning. My first year in education, my student teaching year, was incredibly difficult.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Too many online course developers simply read bullet points to their audience when making videos. They project complex graphs that cannot be deciphered, use tiny text that cannot be read, or add multiple images that are too small to see. Instead, think of a way of illustrating the concept that will get the viewer’s attention.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Too many online course developers simply read bullet points to their audience when making videos. They project complex graphs that cannot be deciphered, use tiny text that cannot be read, or add multiple images that are too small to see. Instead, think of a way of illustrating the concept that will get the viewer’s attention.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

You can read part one here. It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. Let’s be frank.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 5th most-read story focuses on expert predictions for edtech. And phonics—and all foundational reading skills—are very important.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Whether it’s a learning disability, physical impairment, or sensory issue, recognizing these elements will guide you in selecting the right technological tools. You might notice that a student struggles with reading, making text-to-speech software a game-changer.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators.

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