iPads special needs learning
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The document discusses how iPads can benefit special needs and ESL students. It notes that iPads are portable, easy to use, and have built-in accessibility features. They allow students to access curriculum independently using tools like text-to-speech, writing apps, and screen casting. The iPad also enhances collaboration through apps that support activities in areas like intervention, enrichment, assistive technology, and digital literacy. Recommended apps help with skills like reading, translation, articulation, social skills, and life skills. Student testimonials praise how the iPad motivates verbal expression and independent learning.
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iPads special needs learning
- 1. IPADS AND SPECIAL NEEDS LEARNING
- 2. IPADS TO SUPPORT DIVERSE LEARNERS • Accessibility features built into the iPad provide all students the ability to access the curriculum, collaborate with peers and express their understandings with digital tools that best meet their learning needs. • Enhances independence
- 3. IPADS IN THE SPECIAL NEEDS CLASSROOM • Lightweight, portable, • Simplicity of use • Relatively inexpensive • Reduce need for multiple devices • Built in accessibility: zoom, VoiceOver etc • More tools being developed to assist with access: switches, adaptive styluses
- 4. WHY IS THE IPAD USEFUL FOR SPECIAL NEEDS STUDENTS • Instant interactivity and feedback ( audio and video) • Speaking and listening to audio versions of books or use accessibility functions of iPad to have it read aloud • Writing - pages, keynote, make iBooks for the iBook library (Scribble press) • Express understanding - annotate images, make short videos • Just in time support using screen casting Apps like Educreations, Show me, Explain everything
- 5. THE IPAD AND ESL Apps can be used to support activities that may otherwise be difficult for ESL students to understand. • Intervention • Enrichment • Assistive • Digital literacy • Reading • Organizing resources
- 6. HOW • Record themselves reading aloud - iPro recorder, Talking Tom, email to teacher for feedback • Translation apps • Dictionary apps to access key words or clarify difficult ideas • iBooks app to define words, search, make notes • Create picture stories (Felt board, I tell a story) • Visual - images, specific apps, Qwiki, Videolicious, Picle
- 7. APPS • Social skills: • Motivate verbal expression: voice changer plus, talking series • Text to speech: Verbally, or speech to text - dragon dictation social skill • Articulation: Small talk builder phonemes, iPad video, iReverse speech • Language comprehension: • Organizers, Sentence maker, Sentence builder visual • Life skills: functional skills system samplers
- 8. What do special needs students say about the iPad http://atclassroom.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/computers-vs-ipads-in-special-education.html
- 9. Where to find useful Apps for Special Needs students
- 10. Integra
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- How to integrate iPads into lessons\nIdentify your instructional goals and lesson objectives\nTake a lesson that has already been successful and find apps. That can be integrated into the lesson to :\n
- Qwiki is an App that presents search results visually and in an animated form with audio and some brief concise easily understood text. \n
- \nShow verbally\nPicture pusher app \nPusher a number of photos or images appear on the screen and user slides them into a box\n.ACT spell shows one to five large high contrast buttons on t he screen and asks set to spell CVC words from dolce lists. Customizable.\n
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