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Accessibility Tools Can Be Transformative for Some Students. But at What Cost?

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I’m a special education teacher serving students in a self-contained class, and all of my students have moderate to severe learning disabilities including ADHD, intellectual disabilities, emotional disabilities, specific learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorder. John’s sharp intellect was apparent.

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17 Little-Known Tips, Tricks and Hacks for Using Google in the Classroom

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Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

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How AI Will Change Personalized Learning

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For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. Kevin Hogan In in AI and what it means to write a hundred word essay as well as just kind of the bigger the bigger picture ramifications. Now you get. He’s interested in sports. You know you know what?

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What Students With Learning Differences Really Want Us to Know

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There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. So, I think having these learning disabilities has played a tremendous part in my experiences. Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me.

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How Should Professors Respond When Students Ask for Accommodations?

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It makes sense to me why students wouldn’t want to disclose their challenges, particularly when they could not be assured that it would actually help them in their learning any better than trying to go it alone. The implicit biases surrounding disabilities are ever-present, even if we aren’t able to see them in ourselves.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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According to an article in the academic journal American Society for Information Science and Technology , improved technological instruction on assignments through librarian intervention can help students with learning disabilities and barriers.

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Essential Considerations for Addressing the Possibility of AI-Driven Cheating, Part 1

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Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?