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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Update – February AT Blog Carnival
One more post for the AT Blog Carnival. Eric Sailers (@egolfer6) from Speech-Language Pathology Sharing wanted to share this post on his upcoming presentations:
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Katie: Laptops and Webcams and SMART Boards – Oh My!
I remember being in grade school and getting that coveted computer time. Twenty minutes to sit in front of a big, bulky, black-and-white screened machine that was noisy and slow. We would play Oregon Trail, using the keyboard to move… Continue reading
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Read the Rose Report on reading
Those readers from the UK are almost surely familiar with the “Rose Report,” but readers in other parts of the world may not know about it. Identifying and Teaching Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties: An independent report from Sir Jim Rose to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [...] Continue reading
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Concerns on Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools Expressed in House Committee Hearing
The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing to discuss the impact of charter schools on the public education system as it prepares to reauthorize – rewrite – the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, now known as No Child Left Behind. Notably, witnesses and members of Congress raised concerns regarding recent studies which showed an under-representation of students with disabilities enrolled in charter schools and “counseling out” practices which may discourage prospective families of students with disabilities from enrolling their child because special education services and supports are unavailable. CEC has echoed these concerns and others, with members… Continue reading
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February AT Blog Carnival
Happy February to everyone! Thanks for stopping by to check out the AT Blog Carnival. Please take a moment to check out the contributors, and if you like what you read, please leave a comment!
Greg McCall starts of this month, he submitted this
SLS4reading
Ira Socol (@irasocol) of SpeEdChange submitted a great post on technology.
What is Technology?
Chris Bugaj (@attipscast) of the A.T.TipsCast thought everyone would enjoy this spooky post!
Count Edula’s Game
Daniel McNutty shared his website for you to check out.
Patins Project
Gillian Pilcher of Special Classroom has a great math game.
Math Game
Ricky Buchanan (@rickybuchanan) of ATMac has a few good posts!
Nuance Buys Macspeech
Accessing the iPad
Fiddle Proof iPod
Barrie Ellis (@oneswitch) of One Switch UK share some great games.
Gamma IV at Gamebase
I’m sharing my thoughts on the upcoming release of the Apple iPad.
Apple iPad
Apple iPad – Comments
Thanks again to all the contributors! Please keep a look out for the next AT Blog Carnival.
Patrick
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Last Call for February AT Blog Carnival!
This is the last call for entries for the February AT Blog Carnival. Please get your submission to me ASAP and I will make sure to get it posted for tomorrow. You can reach me at Twitter – Teachntech00 or via the reTaggr widget on this page (top right corner).
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A lesson in the importance of prior knowledge
Today, as I was helping out in the classroom my fourth graders mainstream into, I was again reminded of the gaps in my own education. Because I spent so many of my elementary school years in France, "commonly known" facts like Chicago is in Illinois and not northern California totally escaped me. And I found out this morning that George Washington had bad teeth, another little tidbit I was not aware of. In fact, he only had two teeth left when he became our first president! Old news to you, probably, but breaking news to me.
This reminds me of my junior year of high school. I was in California that year, after have spent the last four in both France and Germany. All of that summer before eleventh grade, I had nightmares that my American History teacher was going to give us a blank map of the U.S and ask us to label as much as we could. And I knew I'd flunk because I only knew where Calfifornia, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and Florida were. I mean, I had only just learned in tenth grade that Chicago is in Illinois and not northern California!!
So there I was in a new school, surrounded by thousands of seemingly unfriendly (and oh so American!) students. I'm sitting in Mrs. K's American History class on day one. And what does she do?? YOU SAW THIS COMING, PEOPLE! She hands us a blank map of the United States and tells us this is our first quiz: label as many states and capitols as you can. Well, it only took me about ten seconds to label the five states I knew. The rest of the time was spent staring at all that blank space in the middle and considering what to write: "States I've never heard of?", "The ones in the middle?", "States I'm not in right now?", "White space highlighting my ignorance?" The possibilities were endless. The most appealing possibility, of course, was to flee the scene… maybe hop back on that plane and fly to a place where I knew the names of all the countries surrounding me. Maybe there I wouldn't feel like such an ignoramus.
Thankfully, Mrs. K was a very understanding teacher and one of the best all around teachers I'd had, to boot. By the end of the school year, I could tell you where all the states were. And I could tell you some other history facts I had picked up along the way.
And now? Now, at 27 years old, I can tell you that George Washington had bad teeth.
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Does RtI reduce numbers of children in special education?
In an article slated to appear in Remedial and Special Education, Jeanne Wanzek and Sharon Vaughn reported that widely popular three-tiered approach to addressing did not significantly reduce the number and percentage of students identified for special education across seven elementary schools. Their study, which is limited to the response to instruction or intervention in [...] Continue reading
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Autism appears early
Source: Oznoff et al., 2010
In “A Prospective Study of the Emergence of Early Behavioral Signs of Autism,” Professor Sally Oznoff and colleagues found that infants who develop Autism behave differently than their typically developing peers even as early as one year of age. Writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent [...] Continue reading
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Financial assistance for graduate students
The Council of Graduate Schools posted a resolution, “Resolution Regarding Graduate Scholars, Fellows, Trainees and Assistants,” regarding offers and acceptances of financial assistance for graduate students. Financial support—scholarships, fellowships, and assistantships—is commonly offered at the same time as an offer of admission for advanced graduate studies, and such offers need to be tendered and accepted [...] Continue reading
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