Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And universal assessments that test multilingual students in English can provide inaccurate information that teachers use to guide their practice or can wrongly indicate learning disabilities. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching. But there are also other steps I’ve taken to change my practice.

English 201

English Languages Language Teachers 201

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.

Essay 167

Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

They replaced the familiar, and easier, Oregon state reading and math tests, the Oregon Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, or OAKS. Nearly all teachers who took the survey said students with disabilities needed more and better accommodations. The worst part of the process is the (reading and writing) performance task.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 124

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2019

The incident has raised questions about the fairness and validity of the admissions process as a whole, and specifically about whether the SAT is as secure as it should be. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. You didn’t first read it in the paper? There are a whole series of initiatives.

Disabilities 119

Disabilities Exams Learning Disabilities Testing 119

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The mandate made New Jersey second in the nation to implement such a measure; California’s so-called FAIR Education Act (Senate Bill 48) was passed in 2011. So, I think the state mandate around LGBTQIA and disability resources is really timely, considering the work we’re already doing. GLSEN resources and lesson plans. How do we do PD?

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Curriculum Disabilities Social Studies History 110

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. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Language 363

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. By incorporating various content formats such as videos, readings, and interactive activities, educators can cater to different learning styles.

Accessibility 105

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

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. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

More than 100 people tuned in, with questions such as how to make VR accessible for students with disabilities and how to avoid motion sickness when using the technology. Watch the complete conversation, or read highlights from below. Obviously at this point, there are different types of disabilities for some students.

Ethics 122

Ethics Disabilities Learning Questions 122

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Listen to the conversation, or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. but the ability for me to read their faces and read their body language, all of those kinds of things that a good instructor is doing, doesn't work as well on Zoom. So certainly there is the possibility. Beaudoin: You're exactly right.

Lecturing 177

Lecturing Instructors Communication Questions 177

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. A student used ChatGPT as an aid by prompting it to summarize course readings and make them easier to understand. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023).

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Efforts to include all individuals, including those with disabilities in educational settings should prioritize specific measures to ensure their full participation in all activities. By incorporating various content formats such as videos, readings, and interactive activities, educators can cater to different learning styles.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2015, several civil rights groups, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People signed a statement coming out against the Opt-Out movement in support of testing.

Exams 112

Exams Testing Disabilities Learning 112

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

One need only walk into any reasonably sized public library where rows of books and quiet reading spaces sit alongside banks of public computers, teen rooms and meeting facilities hosting daily community events to see the physical manifestation of this transformation.

Schools 113

Schools History Disabilities Fairness 113

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. Collaboration technology improves accessibility for students with disabilities, illnesses, and other impediments to in-person learning.

Hybrid Learning 297

Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Language 297

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

And then began his most ambitious effort: Hosting and producing “Reading Rainbow,” a television program that delivered books and a love of learning to children via television. I like to say that you either read a book or she would beat you with it. So I grew up in a household where reading was like breathing.

Education 154

Education Reading Beliefs Culture 154

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. If a video has transcripts or offers closed captioning, I will read the content instead of watching. Diverse learning materials should offer a balance of reading, watching, and listening to promote the understanding and engagement of all students.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher. The distortion makes it difficult for bots to accurately identify the characters while humans can easily read them.

Academic Integrity 135

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Additionally, non-native English speakers and students with language and learning disabilities often turn to these tools to support their thinking, communication, and learning. A student used ChatGPT as an aid by prompting it to summarize course readings and make them easier to understand. This is not fair” (Syed, 2023).

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Equity is the fair and just access to opportunities and resources for all. If a video has transcripts or offers closed captioning, I will read the content instead of watching. Diverse learning materials should offer a balance of reading, watching, and listening to promote the understanding and engagement of all students.

Accessibility 88

Accessibility Exams Learning Peer Review 88

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

Throughout the onboarding process, and in all the company materials she’d read since, she had never come across any specific guidance. Mindy, a VIPKid instructor from Michigan, believes she once heard a student being beaten during a lesson; she can’t be sure, because the parent had disabled the video feed. “I Nothing like that.”

Teaching 167

Teaching English Instructors Culture 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Some common CAPTCHA types include: Text-based CAPTCHAs: These CAPTCHAs display a series of distorted letters or numbers that are difficult for bots to read but easy for humans to decipher. The distortion makes it difficult for bots to accurately identify the characters while humans can easily read them.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

The author, a programmer named James Somer, put it like this: “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.” 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.

Fairness 167

Fairness History English Internet 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2023

EdSurge: We read a lot of reports about missing students across the country, especially since the pandemic, but can you help give us a sense of the scope of chronic absence right now? There's a range and a variation [of chronic absence] by ethnicity, and you see higher levels for kids who are affected by or have a disability.

Schools 188

Schools English Language Languages 188

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

There, thousands of Black children began going to schools built expressly for them, where they learned to read and write after decades of being denied the right of literacy. Its fair to say it was the federal government that brought an end to racial segregation in our schools. And thats just not true.

Education 116

Education Disabilities History Writing 116

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

She sees videos on social media, hears stories from friends, reads the news. The watch is considered a cellphone UNLESS airplane mode is activated,” the policy reads. Airplane mode can be disabled with one touch, and truthfully he’d rather not see the devices in his elementary school at all. Photo courtesy of Laudando.

Elementary School 199

Elementary School Elementary School Communication Grades 199

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

It’s been over a decade since I read Ravitch’s book, and the question of school choice is still being tossed around. Cara Fitzpatrick When I read this book, I learned some fascinating and frankly ugly things about the history of school choice in the U.S. Is that a fair assessment of the math there?

Schools 105

Schools Fairness History Art 105