Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 12th, 2006 No Comments »
iPod Helps Special-Needs Students Make the Grade: “‘With an iPod, our Special Ed students can take their tests in classrooms with their peers and be mainstreamed in, versus having to be pulled out to do so,’ states Louisa-Muscatine Elementary School principal Scott Grimes. ‘That’s sure to work wonders for their self-esteem, and help them feel [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Oct 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
Roger Johansson has a great post on Accessibility for all vs. for people with disabilities at his excellent weblog on site development: 456 Berea St..
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Sep 21st, 2006 No Comments »
Michael Rogers, a columnist for MSNBC takes a look at how technology is affecting literacy in What is the worth of words? Will it matter if people can’t read in the future?
This may not be the definitive thinking on this subject but it’s a fascinating subject and worth thinking about. I can say without a [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Jan 25th, 2006 5 Comments »
Podcasting goes academic: Apple’s iTunes U puts school lectures and more online.
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Aug 24th, 2005 No Comments »
LD Talk recently hosted a live chat with Dr. Dave Edyburn on LD and assistive technology and you can find its transcript here.
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Aug 19th, 2005 No Comments »
Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks!: “An Arizona high school decides to toss out the textbooks. Instead, the school issues iBooks to its students — and discovers their video-game proficiency doesn’t necessarily extend to computer chops.”
(Via Wired News.)
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Jul 12th, 2005 No Comments »
Arizona School Will Not Use Textbooks and instead will use iBooks.
It’s about time. Not sure how this will work but this certainly is the first of many such experiments to come.
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on May 28th, 2005 No Comments »
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour: “The rise of podcasting is now enabling museumgoers to concoct their own unofficial audio guides and tours.”
(Via NYT > Home Page.)
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on May 9th, 2005 No Comments »
Computers Grade Students’ Writing: “A professor, tired of marking the same old mistakes in university compositions, invents software to do the work. It’s one of several programs that ease teachers’ busywork, but do students learn more than how to trick the automated graders?”
This coupled with the fact that the new SAT essay section is being [...]
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Apr 29th, 2005 3 Comments »
“Lower-Literacy Users exhibit very different reading behaviors than higher-literacy users: they plow text rather than scan it, and they miss page elements due to a narrower field of view.”
I’m not sure I agree with everything said in this interesting and useful article but it’s worthwhile reading for anyone: user or developer.
Source: Gary Sharp