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Session Code: ET-10Do Students With Learning

Differences Really Need an iPad?Rick Weinberg

Rick_weinberg@caboces.orgTwitter: @rickweinberg

February 1st, 2013

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I’d Like to Learn About You

Rick Weinberg

•Work

•Education

•Publications

A little about me

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1) goals of and for the student

2) student's needs

3) what are the person's gifts

4) what’s affordable

Well, it depends

Why am I doing this?

• Lack of plan

• Personal Reasons

• Some Observations• Making a mobile device not mobile• The wow factor• Instruction vs. Compensation (Brian Wojcik and Dave Hohulin)• Bloom’s Taxonomy

Here is what I mean

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The Majority of What I do

• Is help with reading and writing

Dyslexia Research

• A decade ago, Shaywitz, author of Overcoming Dyslexia, demonstrated in her research that fully one in five students has the condition, with males and females sharing it in roughly equal numbers. Dyslexia makes it difficult for a person to retrieve or correctly order the basic sounds, or "phonemes," of spoken language (like the "k," "aah," and "t" sounds that make the word cat, for example).

Does your student need help writing?

1) Does the child need physical help with the act of writing2) Does the child need help with idea acquisition?3) Does the Child need help with “getting ideas down on paper?”

If the Student Needs Head Tracking

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PC Version or an iDevice Version

Dragon Naturally Speaking

Speech to Text

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Speech to Text on a Mac

Google Search for Spelling

Graphic Organizers

Bubbl.us

Popplet

We want everyone to participate

One of the Best Resources is:

• Bookshare.org

Bookshare.org Can be used Both

• On the Computer or on a Mobile Device

Bookshare is free for

Did you know that

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Just about every Library has• a way to sign out books online.

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NYPL.org

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The Three Things I use at NYPL

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One way to do that

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Text to Speech

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Text to Speech on a Mac

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Accessibility Settings on an iPad

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What if you have an older iPad

• and/or the operating is not updated

• or cannot be updated

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iTunes University

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Resources

• Qiat.org

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Resources Continued

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Twitter #ATchat

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My Information

Rick Weinberg

rick_weinberg@caboces.org

Twitter @rickweinberg

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