2. Purpose
Consider access and equity in education
Expand understanding of strategies and
skills necessary for learning
Discuss technology that may be beneficial
to all and essential to some learners
SED 340: Teaching in an Inclusive Setting,11/04/2010
College of Mount St. Joseph
3. Teaching use of Technology
Once skills are internalized, students can
transfer that knowledge to other situations
Students can become increasingly
motivated to learn when they are successful
Digital learning offers experiences that are
varied, interesting and accessible
4. Educational Technology
Beneficial to all learners…
and essential to some
Memory
Focus
Academic fluency
Organization & time management
Speaking
Hearing
Mobility
5. Tools for Independence
Text to speech
Speech to text
Voice recorder
Visual recorder
Organization of thought
Communication
Hearing
Location tracking
Presentations
Community forums
Business
7. Changing Learning
Consider: What lies ahead for our students?
Digital Learning
Interacting with information in constructive ways
Access to much information about a topic of interest
Social Learning
Demonstrates rather than explains process
Allows casual mentorship
Encourages collaboration
Offers safety buffer
Informal Learning
Subvert traditional rules set by institutions
Negotiate restrictions on access to information
Rewrite rules
8. Direction of Change
Competencies Learners Need in order to
Succeed in a Globalized Knowledge
Economy:
Acting autonomously
Using tools interactively
Functioning in heterogeneous groups
9. Role of School
Guide students to
Learn
Teach
Collaborate
Mature
Create environment
of
Empowerment
Efficacy
Independence
10. Educational Technology
The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen remembers
and links everything you hear to everything
you write
Tap on your notes to replay the recording
Find and get what you need, instantly, with a
tap
Record and play back
Save and search
Send and share
Apps
11. Livescribe Pulse Smartpen
Students have limitless access to teacher instruction plus the ability to utilize
multiple modalities, engage in tactile experiences, and self–monitor by
recording their own voice for fluency exams and oral reports.
12. Voice Recognition Technology
Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition
software is used to gain independence,
freedom and confidence
Create documents and emails hands free
Command and control computer by voice
Level the playing field for students with disabilities
Express thoughts in writing with speed and ease
The program tunes itself to what you say and how
you say it to deliver increasingly better recognition
results over time
13. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Provides accessibility for people with physical
disabilities that making typing difficult or impossible
Helps users with language-based learning
disabilities better express themselves in writing
Prevents repetitive stress injuries by enabling hands-
free PC use
Keeps workers with certain injuries on the job
Accommodates many users with speech
impairments or pronunciation issues
Works with popular screen readers like JAWS to
help visually impaired users be productive on the PC
Helps organizations meet disability management
needs because it’s Section 508 certified
14. Dragon NaturallySpeaking
• Improve writing fluency
• Increase productivity
• Improve student services
• Reduce paper consumption
• Multimodal messaging, dictation, and search
solutions
• Sync digital voice recording for transcription
http://www.nuance.com/for-individuals/by-
15. Text to Speech Technology
Kurzweil 3000: comprehensive reading,
writing, and learning software solution
Access to any curriculum
Reading fluency
Study skills tool
Decoding support
Writing and self editing
Independent test taking
High speed scanning and MP3 conversion
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/kurz3000.html#q1
16. Screen Reading Technology
Adobe Reader
PDF file viewer opens and interacts with all
PDF documents
View, search, digitally sign, verify, print, and
collaborate on Adobe PDF files
Study tools and note generation
http://get.adobe.com/reader/
ReadPlease 2003
Reads any text seen on screen
• all purpose text-to-speech software
http://readplease.com/
17. Organizing and Planning
Tools
Inspiration Software
Comprehend, create and communicate
Visual learning and thinking
http://www.inspiration.com/
Kidspiration Software (K-5)
Develop reading, writing, and thinking skills
Visual organization and note taking
Build conceptual understanding in Math
http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration/Details
18. Interactive Tools for
Instruction
Real-time survey response clickers or web
enabled mobile devices
Student response solutions
Instant visual mapping
Content and technology integration
http://www.turningtechnologies.com/
Smartboards
Ease of access
http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/
19. Creative Solutions
Online textbooks
Economic and interactive text books
Online collaboration
Open source community based options
Wiki, Moodle and blog sites
Social Media in the classroom
Prezi
Creativity and self-expression
Zooming presentations
http://prezi.com/
20. Everyday Technology
MS Office Word
Professional quality compositions, citation
assistance, charts and graphs
MS Office EXCEL
Organizing, processing and charting of data
MS Office OneNote
Organizing, syncing and sharing of notes
MS Office PowerPoint
Professional quality presentations
MS Office Publisher
Professional quality publications