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.

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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. These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology. It can be a challenge to meet those expectations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In addition to screening support, I have trained thousands of teachers across multiple states and districts to use structured literacy, an approach rooted in the science of reading. But of these states, only 30 legally require an intervention for students with this extremely common learning disability.

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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. According to the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences, this term can be used when there is a rationale, based on research findings, that the practice is likely to improve student outcomes, with ongoing efforts to examine such effects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. Looked I’m working on a National Science Foundation grant and related to AI and one of the things one of the researchers said this morning is when we design AI algorithms. Now you get.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2024

This posed major challenges to her education: Esmeralda said that, instead of receiving proper language instruction, she was placed in classes meant to address learning disabilities. Prior to that, she was the health and human sciences educator at Purdue Extension office in Clinton County, Indiana.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Sortd is a tool for people who like to organize things into lists, said science teacher JR Ginex-Orinion. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

As the meeting progressed, I learned that she was expressing similar behaviors in her history class, but not her math, science or art classes. Sadie’s counselor shared context about her living situation and the Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant (LDTC) explained her cognitive assessment scores relative to her abilities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Check below for the latest marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. She became a dyslexia expert and advocate after her husband and two of her four children were diagnosed with the learning disability.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. To start, I set up five centers: lab, science skills, reading, technology and a makerspace. He didn’t turn in work for the science skills center two cycles in a row. You must be Kevin,” I said with a smile. Kevin didn’t look at me.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

That forecast was rooted in a sense of optimism—that as digital learning tools and opportunities proliferated in schools, educators would increasingly be able to tailor their instruction to meet students’ different needs. Students enter school with different skills, backgrounds and experiences.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process. Amanda Lotz knows all too well how difficult it can be to engage middle school students in life sciences, especially those with emotional disorders, behavioral issues, or learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

So I connected with people who run the Learning and the Brain conference and began to attend. And in my own doctoral work here at Johns Hopkins I became interested in looking at the research on neuro and cognitive sciences and what of that is relevant to educators. You can learn the way your teacher teaches you.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

However, it's recently gotten a lot of more air play as folks are realizing that whether you call it character education, peace building or conflict resolution, they all have foundations in the social-emotional learning frameworks and in that research base.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Overcoming Barriers through Information Literacy Instruction School library faculty don many hats to promote student learning, and modern librarians have demonstrated a firm commitment to centering diversity in libraries. Wine in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The brains behind BrainCo The founder and CEO of BrainCo is Bicheng Han, a PhD candidate at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University. What’s more, there’s scant evidence that neurofeedback can be used to treat learning disabilities, say scientists. In 2015, his Somerville, Mass.-based

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The device has tickled the curiosity of techies, yogis and brain-science researchers alike, so I put one on to see what the hype is about. In addition, students with learning disabilities are more than twice as likely to be suspended (13 percent) compared with students without disabilities (6 percent).

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 21, 2025

They learn to use interactive whiteboards, host breakout discussions, and embed live polls seamlessly within sessionsakin to actors trained for both stage and film. Workshops introduce AIpowered language labs one month and augmented reality science modules the next. These educators excel at building rapport through a screen.

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Teach Your Kids

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Love as the Foundation of Learning My mom’s teaching career began with Maria Montessori , whose philosophy emphasizes the role of love and spirit in teaching. Montessori believed that science and spirit are intertwined—that the curiosity driving learning is fueled by love. As my mom put it, “Spirit equals love.”

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Suggestions: Use building blocks to teach geometry Incorporate nature walks for biology lessons Turn cooking into science experiments and math practice Part 5: Your Influence as a Parent-Facilitator While teachers remain the academic experts, parents are the emotional and logistical anchors of the learning process.

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Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

This allows them to have a surface to write on, partners and groups to work with, but also their own chair to help them learn to stay in their assigned place. Having students at tables is often the best way to do activities where students need to write in books, use blocks or beads for math or science activities, or do arts and crafts.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2024

But she recalls one student, a sixth grader with a learning disability. A computer science major, she says she previously had no interest in education as a profession. Sometimes, Dutt says, it can be hard to keep the students engaged, especially when they are receiving the tutoring from a busy classroom, which often happens.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2020

We have watched as students with additional challenges, including those with physical or learning disabilities, fade from technology-rich learning, and we have even seen our most driven students burn out from the daily grind of hours on video conferences and completing assignments online.

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Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

doctor's appointment, university obligation, learning disability, etc.). The class Zoom link is posted on the learning management system and the waiting room feature is disabled (in case students join after the start and I am unaware they are in a waiting room). is discussed on the first day of class. link] Wong, J.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

A lot of these edech algorithms don't seem to think about things like learning disabilities or cultural differences. They seem to be a one-size-fits-all type thing, in spite of the fact that they're saying it is like learning, dynamic stuff. What would it mean to apply a Hippocratic oath for data science?

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