The document discusses bringing your own technology (BYOT) policies and considerations for implementing BYOT in special education and differentiated classrooms. It provides an overview of pros and cons of BYOT policies, legal obligations to provide assistive technology, questions for individualized education program (IEP) teams to consider regarding student needs and accommodations. The document also gives examples of free and low-cost accessibility apps and tools for iOS, Android, and web browsers that could help students in BYOT environments.
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A presentation on Course Design and Implementation of Course Delivery in Open and Distance Learning.
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Presentation to Boston Public Schools Principals & Headmasters at the 2012 School Leader Institute on selecting technology tools to support diverse learning needs of students.
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4. BYOD & Special Education
IDEA 2004
• AT must be provided at no cost to family
• If required it is needed to ensure FAPE
• Evaluation
History of BYOD with AAC
• Samples in DropBox Folder
5. Questions to ask ARD Committee
IEP considerations
• Goals
• Accommodations
• STARR (State Testing)
• Backup options from school
• Peripherals
• Repair
• Alternative options
District Forms
• Is there a need for one specific to AT?
7. BYOT in a Differentiated
Classroom
UDL: Universal Design for Learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bDvKnY0g6e4
8. Cognitive Rescaling Strategies
“cognitive rescaling. I define cognitive
rescaling as a process of altering the cognitive
difficulty of information.”
Interventions that alter the cognitive accessibility
of text By Dave L. Edyburn
http://www.paec.org/fdlrstech/SummerInstitute/f
dlrs2004/Edyburn/PDFs/Cognitiverescaling.pdf
9. When is it UDL and when is it AT
UDL
Technology
Differentiation
AT
Student Needs tool to be able to complete
assignment
Tool could be same tool as classmates
Tool could be a specialized tool
11. Read & Write for Google Docs
• Free in Chrome Webstore
Google Docs
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read
%26write-for-google-doc/inoeo
nmfapjbbkmdafoankkfajkcphgd
12. Chrome
iSpeech provides auditory feedback to
highlighted text
Ginger: grammar and spell check
Clearly: make pages easier to read
Voice Search
13. FireFox Extenstions
Talking Clipboard
– http://talkingclipboard.com/
Accessibar
– https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
us/firefox/addon/accessibar/?src=search
Firefox text to speech
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
US/firefox/addon/text-to-voice/
14. Safari
• Handout from www.billziegler.com
• Set the computer up to read text
– System Preferences: Speech:Text to Speech- Select
your System Voice & Rate.
• You can re-set the HOT key that triggers the speech
• De-clutter text on Safari web pages
• Use Cover Flow and Top Sites to allow struggling
readers to locate folders, documents and Internet sites
18. PAR
Protocol for Accommodations in Reading
Oral Reading
Adult Reading
Text Reader
Computer/Mobile Device
Likert Scale
http://www.donjohnston.com/products/par/index.html
19.
20. Text To Speech Supports for a Fee
Kurzweil (booth 419)
WYNN
Read Write and Gold (1826)
Snap and Read
Don Johnston
21. Free Options
Edu Apps
• http://eduapps.org/
Natural Reader
• http://www.naturalreaders.com/download.php
Word Talk: Plug in for Word
• http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/
Speak Computer downloads
• http://speakcomputers.com/SpeakComputer.aspx
22. Adobe PDF
Only the teacher needs Adobe Pro
– Enable editing
– Save and share file
Select View Menu > Tools > Forms
Create
23. Adobe PDF
Enable editing in Adobe Pro
– http://natri.uky.edu/assoc_projects/qiat/documents/
resourcebank/V-
2CreateinteractiveFormsAdobeProfessional.pdf
– http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrob
at/pdf/acrobat-xi-accessible-forms.pdf
Students can use form on any computer
34. Text Reading apps:
Read2go: reads Bookshare books
ClaroSpeak: reads any accessible text
• vBookz PDF Voice Reader is an app that reads
your PDF files aloud. dds orientation and
navigation tools that enhances the reading
experience. An interactive cursor allows users to
follow along, pause reading or even repeat lines
to ensure reading
• Pinned via web
42. Android
Google Play Books have text to speech options
Moon and Reader: provides Text To speech
Iovana Text To speech Pro
Classic Text to Speech
Jason Dewey3:30 PM
+Hindie Dershowitz Exactly right Hindie, while I am a special educator, I feel that Instructional Technology should subsume the term Assistive Technology. While certain pieces of AT are strictly disability-related (e.g. adaptive pencil grips) so much of the Web 2.0 revolution is applicable to both the "average" learner as well as students with disabilities. AT gets shunned so often because administrators dont' see it as applicable to a broad student base, but IT they eat up with a spoon because they feel that it will raise their standardized test scores a few points. AT advocates need to leverage this propensity and target the right tech so we are accommodating our special needs students while providing excellent UDL tools.
Show example of Snap and read
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