Supporting Students with Assistive Technology Marcia Obukowicz AT Consultant CESA 9...

Supporting Students with Assistive Technology

Marcia ObukowiczAT Consultant CESA 9marciao@newnorth.net

715-453-2141

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So what do kids need to learn

Lecture

Reading

Audiovisual

Demonstration

Discussion Group

Practice by Doing

Teach others/ Immediate Use of Learning

Lecture

Reading

Audiovisual

Demonstration

Discussion Group

Practice by Doing

Teach others/ Immediate Use of Learning

Average retention rate 24 hours later

5%

10%

20%

30%

50%

75%

90%

David Sousa grid from How the Brain Learns

How effective are these teachingStrategies in aiding student recall and retention of information?

LOTS and HOTS

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Integrating Tech into Practice

• Comfort Level

• Tech Infrastructure

• Learning

• Teaching

• Student Learning

• Student Integrating

Positioning

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Access

Communication

Communication is not about going to see the SLP!

Communication is everydayIt gets needs metIt conveys feelingsIt creates social bondsIt conveys ideasIt is more than a schedule, more than mere words, It moves us from the sidelines and into the action.It is critical to our participation in the human experience.Building skills in communication is a team effort.

Communication needs

Partners

Activities

Supports

Communication Circles

Closing

Openings

Sustaining

Curriculum supports

Curriculum support

• Using what is already there– Adapted learning www.adaptedlearning.com – Smartboard: http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-

US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/

– Clicker: https://www.learninggrids.com/us/WelcomePage.aspx

– Ipod and Nintendo apps• Online interactives• Alternate media presentation tools with Web 2.0• Engage the learner in the skills of problem

solving

Literacy

WRITE

PRESENTATION

ORGANIZEREAD

Purpose: Gather knowledge or experiences

READ

Options: How do you like your data delivered?

Consider: pictures, video, text, interactives, discussion, collaboration

Setting the SCENE with Pictures

History Lesson on Slaveryhttp://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/lesson4.html

teachertube

Traditional history lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1RbUxQv4E Slavery todayhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8007030430438520117&ei=gDVVS63qD6GGlgf7rLXUBA&q=video++slavery&hl=en&view=3#

Video samples:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

Interactives

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Purpose: arrange a body of knowledge, data, ideas, people, things, time or other elements into a sequential or spatial form or process

ORGANIZE

Options: Graphic Organizers, checklistsPlanners, schedules, storage, highlighting,Sticky notes, extraction, bibme., reference and web trackers

Turn format toolbar on!

• On the Formatting toolbar, click Highlight . • Select the text or graphic you want to highlight. • To turn off highlighting, click the button again,

or press ESC. •  Note   To change the highlighter color, click

the arrow next to Highlight , and click the color you want. When you highlight parts of a document that you intend to print, use a light color if you're using a monochrome or dot-matrix printer.

• Remove highlighting from part or

http://www.digitalpencil.org/ProjectOrganizers.aspx

Organizing

• www.inspiration.com

• http://bubbl.us/index.php?signout

• http://cmap.ihmc.us/conceptmap.html

• http://www.digitalpencil.org/DPHome.aspx

• http://www.bibme.org/

Purpose: capture ideas, knowledge in a format to share

WRITE

Options: Computers, Netbooks, portable writing tablets,Digital pens, word prediction, spell and grammar checkers,Voice recognition

Purpose:

Share our thoughts and ideas, collaborate with others in varied formats

PRESENTATION

Options: Web 2.0 tools for managingImages, words, video and voice,Projection or touch screen for sharing digital content, collaborationtools like wiki, blog or twitter

The missing skills

• Fish vs. fish dinner

• Learning needs and support tools– Time, materials

• Social needs and support tools– Social stories, practice routines

• Behavior and support tools– Calming, centering,