ACCESS THE FUTURE

1. ACCESS THE FUTURE

2. The future belongs to young people who know where the knowledge is, how to get it, how to think about it, and how to turn it into better work, better products, better lives. Rexford Brown

3. Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System

4. Child Find • Parent Services • Human Resource Development • Technology - Assistive and Instructional Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System

5. Instructional Technology Resource Unit • Trains and develops resources for instructional technology • Focuses on integration of technology with learning strategies

6. 5 Regional Labs • Coordinating Unit • 220+ LATS (Local Assistive Technology Specialists) Assistive Technology Education Network

7. Begin With the End in Mind!

8. LA.A.2 LA.B.2 LA.D.2 MA.E.1 Which standards relate directly to technology?

9. LA.A.2 • The student uses a variety of reference materials...and tools...to gather information for research topics. The student constructs meaning from a wide range of texts.

10. LA.B.2 • (K-2) The student uses basic computer skills for writing.... • (3-5 ) The student uses electronic technology... to create, revise, retrieve and verify information. The student writes to communicate ideas and information effectively.

11. LA.D.2 The student understands the power of language. • (6-8) The student understands how the multiple media tools of graphics, pictures, color, motion and music can enhance communication in TV, film, radio, and advertising.

12. MA.E.1 The student understands and uses the tools of data analysis for managing information.

13. Assistive Technologies Tech Tools for Accommodations

14. Key Points • Tech tools provide accommodations for special needs • Tech tools provide access to general curriculum which is tested by FCAT • Tech tools can help level the assessment playing field for students with disabilities

15. Assistive Technologies? • Any aid, including computers, software, switches, calculators, communication devices, voice synthesizers,low tech tools, which is used to help students perform some task related to success in an instructional setting • Related services which include training,evaluation, integration with effective instructional strategies

16. Plastic Colored Transparencies Improves visual perception of text

17. Highlighter Tapes Colors: Pink Green Yellow Orange

18. NiteWriter Pen

19. Pencil Grippers

20. Highlight-Operational signs 30 + 45 72 - 45 + - Use different highlighters to specify which operation is being used

21. Talking Calculator Provides Auditory & Visual feedback Reads 2 ways: 3 7 1 and 371

22. Portable Keyboards

23. Cognitive Organizer

24. Talking Word Processor

25. Word Prediction

26. Reading Support

27. Role of Technology • Provides access to curriculum • Physical • Cognitive • Offers alternative experiences for learning • Learning styles • Accommodations for special needs

28. Role of Technology • Allows students to demonstrate performance • Communication • Multimedia • Alternate means of assessment

29. We are now where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet. Margaret Mead

30. Success in 21st Century • Lifelong learning • Creative thinking • Problem solving • Information Management • Communication

31. School Tools • Reading • Writing • Thinking Skills • Communication • Mathematics

34. Universal Design • Flexible • Built-in features for successful use • Meet the needs of the widest range of users

35. Universal Design in Learning Multiple Means of: • Engagement • Representation • Expression *Caveat

36. Universal Design Now • Text in digital format • Captions for all audio • Educationally relevant audio descriptions for images, graphics, and video

37. Key Points • Tech tools provide accommodations for special needs • Tech tools provide access to general curriculum which is tested by FCAT • Tech tools can help level the assessment playing field for students with disabilities

38. Recommendations • Provide test in digital format. • Make all screens accessible by key strokes. • Allow alternate input and output. • Allow computer to read “non-reading” content. • Recommend a process to assist teachers in making more consistent decisions about accommodations for individual students.

39. Realities • When used within effective teaching, technology can • Improve student achievement • Facilitate student independence, life-long learning • Help teachers make accommodations for special needs • Provide access, alternate means of learning, demonstration of performance and alternative means of assessment

40. Strategies • Integration of technology with effective instructional strategies • Alignment of technology with curriculum and student needs • Correlation to State Content Standards, Grade Level Indicators • Selection matches student needs

41. Universal Design Now • Cognitive supports for content and activities • Summarize big ideas • Scaffolding • Fluency through practice • Checking background knowledge • Explicit strategies for instruction

42. Shelby Golly, I fit!

43. “Where there is no vision, the people perish...” Proverbs 29:18

45. With Special Thanks to: LaNelle Netherton, Becky Atwood, Donna Baumbach, Dianne Mathews

46. ACCESS THE FUTURE