Dave Edyburn on LD Talk
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.
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Look, Ma, No Schoolbooks!
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.)
Arizona School Will Not Use Textbooks
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.
With Irreverence and an iPod, Recreating the Museum Tour
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.)
Computers Grade Students’ Writing
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 [...]
Low literacy access to the web
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
Gadgets No Help for the Blind
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Gadgets No Help for the Blind: “Portable tech gets lighter and smaller all the time, but for vision-impaired people, that’s not an advantage.” This is a fascinating article on the nuances of technology and it has real meaning for the learning disabilities world as well. (Via Wired News.)
Low-Cost Laptops for Kids in Need
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Apr 4th, 2005 14 Comments »
Low-Cost Laptops for Kids in Need: “Nicholas Negroponte and some MIT colleagues are working to help hundreds of millions of kids in developing countries. Their idea is to create rugged, internet- and multimedia-capable laptop computers that cost $100 apiece.” (Via Wired News.)
Reading on Cell Phones
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 19th, 2005 No Comments »
WIRED News reports that in Japan people are reading all sorts of things on cell phones including entire novels downloaded in installments: Cell Phones Put to Novel Use. This is one more story in a long list of convergence stories: tools being re-categorized and recast and re-branded. Who’d have thought the cell phone would become [...]
iBooks Support Visual Learners
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 7th, 2005 No Comments »
Apple has documented an installation of iBooks at the Texas School for the Deaf: iBook Laptops Support Visual Learners. Much of this article is meaningful to students with learning disabilities in K-12 or college.
How Wikipedia works
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Mar 4th, 2005 No Comments »
WIRED magazine has a great article on the history of and how Wikipedia, the open source, online encyclopedia project works: The Book Stops Here. What’s interesting about the article is that like many online communities, Wikipedia has a culture and an evolving set of social rules, bad guys who break rules and various levels of [...]
Success for Students with Learning Differences: No-Tech to High-Tech Solutions
Posted in Technology Issues and Ideas on Feb 20th, 2005 2 Comments »
© 2004 Leonard V. Pisano, Ph.D. lvponline@aol.com This article will review different types of supports and instructional interventions, from no tech to high tech, that can accommodate a student with varying degrees of academic difficulties that negatively impact on classroom functioning. The areas addressed will be writing and reading, which are major skills underlying successful [...]