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A summer reading program for students who read differently

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Students with learning disabilities face the greatest challenges in access to reading year-round; and because of their disability, they are often left out of traditional programs, which can damage self-esteem and cause them to fall behind in school.

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Digital Learning: With the help of AI, digital learning is now powered by more customized options, study guides, and digital textbooks. Updating Learning Content: AI takes into account the current education breakthroughs that happen daily and then, helps in regularly updating and generating new content.

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

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The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” Check out these educators’ top picks or explore a list of attendee favorites here.

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?An Augmented Reality Library Comes to Life for Aspiring Teachers at UT San Antonio

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Colemere says this could be useful for some students with learning disabilities. “It AR books have yet to expand into literature or higher grade level materials (you won’t yet find an AR version of “Of Mice and Men”) but perhaps textbooks are what’s next to come. It makes the books come alive in a different way,” she says.

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‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups

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He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. Once he settles on the concepts he wants to cover, Salimi will look around for open education resources or multimedia from textbook publishers to explain each one. she asks. “We

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Forget Memorization: Here's Why Language Class Should Focus on Excitement Instead

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When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. As a teacher of world language, I want my students to realize that you don’t have to learn Spanish by studying verb conjugations out of a textbook every day.

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Philly teacher embraces AI but treads carefully amid data privacy and bias concerns

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Staten teaches English at Northeast High School, the citys largest high school, where many of her students have learning disabilities, are dealing with trauma and mental health challenges, or are learning English. Her early days of teaching involved a lot of printed paper, textbooks, and handwriting. Staten can relate.

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