ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY & Twenty-first Century Literacy Skills

Angelo L. Tomaso SchoolCreated by: Katie DiDia

Who was that guy?

My Dad

A New Teacher

Someone interviewing at the school

None of the above

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY TEAM

Warren Township Schools213 Mount Horeb Road

Warren, New Jersey 07059

Faye Brady, Ed.D.Director of Special Services

908-753-5300 x 5716

Dr. Brian Friedlander

Today’s buzz word is…

21st Century Literacy

Skills

Expectations for Teachers

All teachers will…

Continually develop skills in the educational applications of technology in order to model appropriate use for their students.

Learn to adapt models for integrating technology into the curriculum and create their own methods and products.

Be expected to use technology to effectively communicate with parents and students.

21st Century Skills

Cited from: Warren Township’s Technology Plan 2010-2013 http://warrentboe.org/pdf/technology/plan/2010-2013%20Technology%20Plan.pdf

Programs that provide Text to Speech supports.

Programs and software to promote written expression and the writing process.

Programs that enhance listening comprehension and expressive language skills.

Programs that provide visual supports to help students better understand concepts and ideas.

What is Assistive Technology?

What software programs do we currently have here at ALT?

Reading Writing

Read Out Loud Bookshare Start to Finish Books Accelerated Reader Picture It

Co-Writer/Solo Write Out Loud Kidspiration Draft Builder Inspiration Picture It

Co-Writer

Kidspiration

Inspiration

Today we will be focusing on…

SOLO comes with Write: OutLoud, Read: OutLoud, Co:Writer, and Draft: Builder.

Co:Writer 4000®: A word processor with an assistant. This software predicts words as thestudent is typing. These predicted words and sentences are spoken before being transferred to theword processor so the student gets immediate feedback.

Students with:

Illegible handwriting Very poor phonetic or inventive spelling  A physical disability that makes typing

difficult Difficulty translating thoughts into writing

Who benefits from SOLO Software?

Co:Writer Overview Video

Here is a quick overview of Co:Writer Software

We all know that our students have different learning styles.

Kinesthetic Auditory

Visual

Kids can actually draw and fill in diagrams showing how their information fits together, in a linear or non-linear manner.

Kids are using a computer mouse to physically move information and pictures around, and they are using a keyboard to type.

Kids can use the text to speech feature to help auditory learners and those who don't read as well.

Who benefits from Inspiration/Kidspiration Software?

Go to Inspiration software/Help/Learn to Use/Training Videos/Visual Learning/In the Classroom.

Here is a quick overview of Inspiration Software

Our current plan is…

TESLocation Grade Room

1 DiDia Teacher Laptop 4 112 DiDia Student Desktop 4 113 DiDia Student Desktop 4 114 Lento Teacher Laptop 5 1A5 Lento Student Desktop 5 1A6 Lento Student Desktop 5 1A

INSPIRATION

We have 25 licenses available for Kidspiration & 35 licenses for Inspiration!

KIDSPIRATIONTES      

Location Grade Room1 Madden Teacher Laptop Pre-K 132 Madden Student Desktop Pre-K 133 Madden Student Desktop Pre-K 134 Livingston Teacher Laptop K/1/2 295 Livingston Student Desktop K/1/3 296 Livingston Student Desktop K/1/4 297 Murphy Teacher Laptop 38 Murphy Student Desktop 39 Murphy Student Desktop 3

Please let me know if you are interested!

Thank you and I hope you have a wonderful day!