eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Office of Special Education Programs has awarded a five-year, $2.5

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s an interesting piece from Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jane Sandwood, on the explosion of wearable technology and its place in the education ecosystem: How Wearable Technology is Changing Education and Easing Disabilities. Overcoming Disabilities. Solving Seeing. Immersing in Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Students might use AI to generate story starters, design prototypes for projects, or analyze data for science experiments. Rethinking AI as a tool for empowerment 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards. percent of Black or African American students met or exceeded the Science standards. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Personalized Learning: Meeting the needs of students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.). Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. Blue Valley Public Schools (Kans.)

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2016

The Common Core app organizes the Common Core standards by subject area (math traditional, math integrated, language arts, history/Social Studies, and science and technology) and grade level. Common Core ConceptBank , another free app, explores K-8 mathematics and English Language Arts standards by grade level in a greater depth.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

includes an IEP generator that will draft an initial IEP given the child’s grade level, disabilities and strengths, needs, and behaviors. A third option is Text Compactor.com , which allows for some language translation as well. MagicSchool.ai Easy-peasy.AI MagicSchool.ai

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2016

Designed for young children with autism and other learning disabilities, Kindergarden.com has created flash card apps to stimulate learning and provide tools and strategies for creative, effective language building. Different apps include the alphabet, animals, sports, actions, emotions, earth science, famous places, and many more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

We are the only school in the region who started a dual language program,” said Rossina Sandoval, Southwest DuBois County School District’s director of community engagement, in an interview with the Daily Yonder. That has proven to be the most effective way to develop language skills,” she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. At a macro level, disability organizations are finding ways to work together that would never have happened before the pandemic. At East High School in Rochester, N.Y.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For the center’s report, researchers set out to find information in each state about student achievement in English language arts, math, science, and social studies, as well as student growth–or the progress students made year over year–in English and math.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The term “science of reading” has become shorthand for phonics in many cases. However, getting lost in that discussion is the recognition that the science of reading encompasses all scientifically-based reading research. In 2023, the science of reading discussion will grow to encompass reading skills beyond foundational skills.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: One Teacher-Led Station – Rotating Roles Science Standard: NGSS.MS-PS1-2 This structure allows students to engage deeply with the material through a combination of direct instruction and collaborative, student-centered activities, supporting their understanding of chemical reactions and data analysis in science.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition. Over multiple semesters, more than 2,000 students voluntarily participated in IRB-approved surveys and follow-up interviews.

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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. How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content? These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Today, we offer one more: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) What is UDL Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that can accommodate individual learning differences. It is based on the idea that no one-size-fits-all.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. content, ClassDojo videos , GoNoodle , and other phonics or science videos on YouTube. Suddenly, all my students were looking at the screen with wide eyes, eager to watch the video. I used closed-captioning with BrainPop Jr.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

This project was guided by Anni Kumar, a seasoned educator and head of the computer science department at Vikas Bharati Public School. One of their projects involved building an AI sensor boat to monitor the water quality for the protection of local villagers and aquatic life.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We want all children to attend a public school where there is a nurse, the arts, band, orchestra, novels, field trips, technology and daily classes in the “untested subjects” (such as science and social studies). Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It gives language for the dissonance of the repeated realization of a fractured personhood and how we persistently reassemble ourselves. Another participant, a fifth-year middle grades science teacher in Virginia explained how she’s reconciled the dichotomy of her intersecting identities.

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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. Changing language reflects this shift. Information from a presentation created by Barbara Bookman, university director of disability programs at City University of New York.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In other words: no world language program = no diploma. World Languages Maine is a large—and largely rural—state, with a dwindling student population. World languages have been some of the most difficult positions to fill, yet they are a requirement for earning a proficiency-based diploma. Special Education.

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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. –Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Literacy and Curriculum, Certified Academic Language Therapist C.A.L.T

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. With tools such as Wakelet, ELL students can write in their native language and teachers can translate on their own. Instead, she includes prompts such as, “If you threw a dinner party, which character in this book would you invite?”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

PebbleGo Health launches in both English and Spanish and joins previously released modules: Animals, Biographies, Science, Social Studies, and Dinosaurs. AA (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), ensuring it’s accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2022

Schmedlen currently serves on the Board of Governors of JA Worldwide; the Board of Advisors at the mEducation Alliance; and the Board of Directors of the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts. Texthelp believes in a world where difference, disability or language are no longer barriers. Dr. Schmedlen earned a B.A.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

That system hampered the flexibility needed to provide remediation for English-language learners and special education students. Students taking advanced STEM and foreign language courses, for example, might benefit from increased instruction in those subjects. Schedules have a tremendous impact on access to courses and teachers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The event, organized by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES)—the U.S. We’re only going to get to the root of these problems if we think about them together,” said Doug Paulson, director of academic standards at the Minnesota Department of Education, who participated in the event on behalf of the Council of State Science Supervisors.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

More than 1 billion people across the world have disabilities and AI optimizes accessibility, inclusion, and equity, thus ensuring fairer access to educational information of all types (Nacheva 2025, 137). Transcriptions ease and enable learning for many students with disabilities. SAGE Open 14 (3). Huang, Anna Y.Q.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Simona Johnes, editor-in-chief of Science and Literacy , an educational blog for teachers and parents, did some research into a topic that is of growing concern to my fellow teachers: Robots in the classrom. Simona Johnes is the visionary being the creation of “Science and Literacy” project. Simona’s Bio.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. 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. — Babak D.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Given how participating students have bolstered their foundational reading skills in Massachusetts and nationally with Ignite Reading, we are optimistic that this program will supercharge literacy progress in Fall River,” said Stephanie Kennedy, Director of English Language Arts K-12 of Fall River Public Schools. Of all students, 23.1%

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

Microsoft’s Learning Tools for OneNote already create accessibility by supporting students with disabilities and learning differences. Microsoft also announced that the Immersive Reader tool — which reads aloud to students — and Teams now support translation to more languages than ever before. Buying Cycle. Engagement. Content Length.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Stand Up To Cancer and PBS LearningMedia announced the opening of applications for the second year of The Emperor Science Award program, an initiative designed to encourage high school students to explore careers in science, specifically cancer research and care, through a unique mentoring opportunity.

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