Technology Solutions for ALL Students

1. Technology Solutions for ALL Students Presented by Sean J. Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor - University of Kansas seanj@ku.edu

2. Kansas Infinitec Coalition • URL - http://ks.myinfinitec.org/ • Username - Your e-mail address • Password - you develop • Learning Exchange • Resources • Durable Medical Goods Exchange • Group Buy • Online Classroom • AT2 Classroom - https://webct.ilstu.edu:443

3. Contextualizing Technology Application Universal Design for Learning

4. Differentiated Instruction • A flexible approach to teaching in which the teacher plans and carries out varied approaches to content, process, and product in anticipation of and in response to student differences in readiness, interests, and learning needs.

5. UDL & NCLB • IDEA - Supplementary Aides and Services • NCLB - Enhancing education with technology IDEA Universal Design for Learning NCLB

6. UDL Addresses • Recent research in neuroscience shows that each brain processes information differently. UDL has identified three primary brain networks and the roles they play in learning. • How do we learn? • How does the Brain Process Information? • What are our Learning Styles?

7. Recognition Networks • Gathering facts. How we identify and categorize what we see, hear, and read. Identifying letters, words, or an author's style are recognition tasks the "what" of learning. • Attention • Organization

8. Strategic networks • Planning and performing tasks. How we organize and express our ideas. Writing an essay or solving a math problem are strategic tasks the "how" of learning. • Organization • Brainstorm • Contextualize Information

9. Affective networks • How students are engaged and motivated. How they are challenged, excited, or interested. These are affective dimensions the "why" of learning. • Anchored in “real world” • Situated context so they can apply

10. Universal Design for Learning Principles • UDL principles help educators customize their teaching for individual differences in each of these three brain networks. A universally-designed curriculum offers the following:

11. Universal Design & Architecture Origins of Universal Design

12. Universal Design & Architecture • Progression in the design and application regardless of disabilities.

13. Universal Design for Learning Three Principles • To support recognition learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of presentation • To support strategic learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of expression and apprenticeship. • To support affective learning, provide multiple, flexible options for engagement.

14. Provide multiple examples Highlight critical features Provide multiple media formats Support background contexts Audio Media Photographs Images Timelines Video #1 - To support recognition learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of presentation.

15. #2 - To support strategic learning, provide multiple, flexible methods of expression and apprenticeship. • Provide flexible models of skilled performance • Provide opportunities to practice with supports • Provide ongoing, relevant feedback • Offer flexible opportunities for demonstrating skill • Presenting vs. writing • Manipulatives • Hands-on activities to support written work

16. #3 - To support affective learning, provide multiple, flexible options for engagement. • Provide alternative means for engagement • Offer choices of content and tools • Offer adjustable levels of challenge • Offer choices of rewards • Offer choices of learning context

17. Putting it Into Practice Reading!

18. 3 Types of Readers • Strategic - use reading strategies and read at or above grade level. • Reluctant - can read any material but have text comprehension difficulties and few reading strategies. • Remedial - read several grade levels below peers, limited vocabulary and few reading strategies.

19. Struggling Readers • They have difficulty keeping pace with academic content. • While districts are engaged in the use of many reading improvement programs, many struggling readers lack the skills to independently read which affects their ability to keep pace with academic content.

20. Struggling Readers Verbatim reader accommodations • Verbatim adult reading accommodations do not enhance reading skills. • Student reluctance to ask an adult to slow down, to repeat, to explain. • Lack of engagement with print affects word recognition, reading fluency and reading comprehension.

21. Assistive Technology Reading Software Text readers provide reading support for students who: • Struggle with decoding and/or fluency • Can comprehend the digitized content • Can focus on and integrate auditory and visual information

22. ReadPlease (readplease.com) • Free text-to-speech software • Customize font and background color • Reads text via Windows clipboard from any program (copy/paste) • Control reading from system tray • Reads e-mail emoticons such as :) or :( • Adjustable voice speed (rate) • Low vision color option

23. Digital Text • Gutenberg Project - over 20,000 titles http://www.gutenberg.org/ Free books to download Text-based for computer and hand held devices Increasingly digitized audio books for MP3 Players • The Online Books Page - over 25,000 titles http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

24. Digital text - Continued Lit to Go • A free collection of stories and poems in mp3 and text format. http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/

25. Accessibility Software • Premier Accessibility Suite • http://www.readingmadeez.com • Text-to-speech software • Audio output - multiple voices • Highlights text as it speaks • Texthelp - Read and Write Gold • Text-to-speech software • Audio output - multiple voices • Highlights text as it speaks

26. How do text readers benefit struggling readers? • Text readers help students attend better to their reading, reduce reading distractibility, read with less fatigue, read for longer periods of time, and read faster to complete reading assignments in less time. • Students with mild to moderate disabilities in 6th and 7th grades used a text reader along with study skill tools and averaged a fluency increase in 16 WPM in a 23 week period and an average of 15% improvement in comprehension.

27. E-text Resources There are a variety for subscription sites available today. The best place to begin your search is at the Montgomery County Schools Site: http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/hiat Here you will find general information on digital text as well as a listing of free and for pay e-text sites.

28. Struggling Readers Audio Book Accommodations • Text Book Publishers • Web-based Supports • Audible Books Audible.com Amazon.com • Local Libraries • State of KS Library http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/ Books on tape take advantage of listening comprehension, but do not enhance print processing.

29. The Learning Toolbox The instructional approach underlying the Learning Toolbox involves four components: assessment strategy learning course-specific instruction systematic instruction coe.jmu.edu/Learningtoolbox/ Reading - A Few Additional Ideas

30. Reading - A Matrix to Consider Technology that supports reading - http://www.nationaltechcenter.org/matrix/

31. Putting it into Practice! Writing

32. Improves content & quality Acquire mechanics & conventions skills Oversee development, monitor progress, & target skill development Progress Monitoring - Analyze word count, sentence structure, number of sentences and vocabulary Write: Outloud - donjohnston.com

33. Co: Writer • Word Window integrates with any text application, moving along seamlessly as students write. • Word choices appear Always or only As Needed • Word Wall stimulates ideas and generates words related to a topic as students compose and revise

34. Inspiration - inspiration.com • Created for 6 - 12 learners, Inspiration provides an easy way to apply the proven principles of visual learning. Students build graphic organizers by combining pictures, text and spoken words to represent thoughts and information. Learners develop literacy skills, improve comprehension skills, and better organize ideas for writing. • Categorize and group ideas • Express and organize thoughts • Comprehend and communicate

35. Kidspiration - kidspiration.com • Visual Learning - techniques, example diagrams, standards matches • Professional development - workshops, training, interactive demonstration • Templates - curriculum specific • Global Classroom Templates www.globalclassroom.org/together/kidspiration.html

36. AlphaSmart - alphasmart.com • Word Processor • AlphaQuiz, an integrated classroom quiz solution with quiz design, delivery, automated grading, reporting, and analysis • Beamer, an application for sharing text files wirelessly between other Neos and devices • KeyWords, a complete keyboarding and typing tutor

37. Hand Helds • PDAs • Organization • Writing • Reading • Access • http://www.palm.com/us/software/ • http://students.olatheschools.com/palmresources • http://www.ablelinktech.com/

38. Hand Helds - palm.com • Organization • Writing • Memory • Reading • Access http://students.olatheschools.com/palmresources/

39. Hand Helds - palm.com/us/software/desktop • Word to Go (www.dataviz.com) • PiCoMap (www.handheld.hice-dev.org) • SmartPad2 (www.seikosmart.com)

40. Hand Helds - ablelinktech.com • Memory Aides - Job Coach

41. Hand Helds - ablelinktech.com • A pocket personal computer with an integrated PC-slot digital camera; • Staff/caretakers take pictures of--and narrate--the steps in a task; • Persons with cognitive disabilities use the touch screen. The verbal instructions and images guide them through the steps.

42. Putting it into Practice! Visual Connections

43. Online Learning • iChat for Video Interaction • www.apple.com • www.aim.com/ • Internet Video Conferencing • www.polycom.com/home/ • Marratech • emeeting.kan-ed.org

44. Marratech - An Example

45. Online Learning • PodCasting • audacity.sourceforge.net • BlackBoard • courseware.ku.edu • Building Context • Apple’s iMovie • http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/ • Microsoft’s MovieMaker • United Streaming http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

46. Brain Pop or BrainPop Jr. • Introductory “cartoon” or “movie” that sets the context for the learner. • Quizzes, experiments, comic strips, timelines, and printable activities • Includes standards-based content searchable via topic area. http://www.brainpopjr.com

47. UDL Context to MathematicsWhat we Know! • Provide rationale or develop relevance through an activity prior to a lesson. If student sees the real need for the skill, their attention will be engaged and effort will be increased.

48. UDL Context to MathematicsWhat we Know! • Develop lessons that focus on mathematics in daily living skills, functional tasks, or consumer skills (NCTM data analysis, statistics, and probability – collect data on weather by recording rainy, cloudy, or sunny days). • Integrate mathematics across the curriculum.

49. UDL Context to MathematicsWhat we Know! • Integrate values and cultures of students in the classroom into mathematic examples and problem-solving activities to provide a meaningful context (bakery to solve word problems with fractions…Navajo Bread, Greek baklava, German strudel, etc.) www.ccd.rpi.edu/Eglash/csdt/subcult/brdance/software/dancer.html

50. Math + LD = Challenges