1. Session Code: ET-10
Do Students With Learning
Differences Really Need an iPad?
Rick Weinberg
Rick_weinberg@caboces.org
Twitter: @rickweinberg
February 1st, 2013
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2. I’d Like to Learn About You

3. A little about me
Rick Weinberg
• Work
• Education
• Publications

4. Screenshot Collage of Publications

5. Well, it depends
1) goals of and for the student
2) student's needs
3) what are the person's gifts
4) what’s affordable

6. Why am I doing this?
• Lack of plan
• Personal Reasons
• Some Observations
• Making a mobile device not mobile
• The wow factor
• Instruction vs. Compensation (Brian Wojcik and Dave Hohulin)
• Bloom’s Taxonomy

8. Here is what I mean
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9. The Majority of What I do
• Is help with reading and writing

10. Dyslexia Research
• A decade ago, Shaywitz, author of Overcoming
Dyslexia, demonstrated in her research that fully
one in five students has the condition, with males
and females sharing it in roughly equal numbers.
Dyslexia makes it difficult for a person to retrieve
or correctly order the basic sounds, or
"phonemes," of spoken language (like the "k,"
"aah," and "t" sounds that make the word cat, for
example).

11. Does your student need help writing?
1) Does the child need physical help
with the act of writing
2) Does the child need help with idea
acquisition?
3) Does the Child need help with
“getting ideas down on paper?”

12. If the Student Needs Head Tracking
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13. Dragon Naturally Speaking
PC Version or an iDevice Version

14. Speech to Text
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15. Speech to Text on a Mac

16. Google Search for Spelling

17. Graphic Organizers

18. Bubbl.us

19. Popplet

20. We want everyone to participate

21. One of the Best Resources is:
• Bookshare.org

22. Bookshare.org Can be used Both
• On the Computer or on a Mobile Device

23. Bookshare is free for

24. Did you know that

25. Just about every Library has
• a way to sign out books online.
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26. NYPL.org
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27. The Three Things I use at NYPL
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28. One way to do that
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31. Librivox
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36. Text to Speech
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37. Text to Speech on a Mac
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38. Accessibility Settings on an iPad
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39. What if you have an older iPad
• and/or the operating is not updated
• or cannot be updated
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40. iTunes University
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43. Resources
• Qiat.org
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44. Resources Continued
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45. Twitter #ATchat
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46. My Information
Rick Weinberg
rick_weinberg@caboces.org
Twitter @rickweinberg
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