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Category Archives: reading
Funnix is free for a few more days
From JohnL over on Teach Effectively!. Until 31 January 2011, one can download a copy of Funnix a tutorial program for teaching beginning reading skills just for the asking. Yes, you have to submit a name and an e-mail address, … Continue reading
Why Can’t Johnny Read? NAEP Report Shows No Reading Progress
Image by jackhynes via FlickrThe nation’s report card, formally called the National Assessment of Educational Progress, for reading was released yesterday. The results are grim. The 2009 reading scores for eighth graders are one point higher (out of … Continue reading
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Captions for the Internet – Educational Perspective
When Jaime contacted me to co-write a post about Bill HR3101, she indicated she would like me to write about the educational aspects of this Bill. For those of you who missed the post, basically Bill HR3101 would make all video capable devices have the option of showing captions. It would mean that many different devices that access the internet would allow for captioning!
There is a lot of research that shows how captions help students learn. It increases vocabulary, and helps students with grammar and such. Personally, I get this…students get an opportunity to see words and pictures together. It’s something we do on a regular basis when teaching reading, but this allows even more content to be taught. Verbs become so much more real when there is actual action on the screen paired with captions…it just makes sense.
With this bill, the plethora of internet video becomes even more useful. At this time, there is some captioned content, but compared to the amount of videos on just one site – Youtube.com for example, it’s tiny. Even with the addition of captioning to YouTube.com – About Captioning, it will take an act of Congress to fully caption everything already uploaded. Hopefully this bill will do this.
What it also means is that mobile devices become even more useful. I can see a device like the upcoming iPad allowing students to access video content independently and using captions to increase their understanding of the content.
This is an exciting time in technology and things will get very interesting. Take a moment and sign up for the Caption Action 2 to support this bill!
Patrick
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PenFriend
A very interesting device that I at ATIA was the PenFriend. The PenFriend is basically a voice labeling device. When you touch the PenFriend to a specific place it will vocalize. The spots come with the PenFriend and can be programed to say whatever you want. So you could place them in a book and when a child touches the pen to the spot it would read the page! The Pen friend can hold up to 70 HOURS of audio!!! and there is no limit to how much audio can be programmed for each dot. This could be a very useful tool in classroom settings to help kids be more independent in reading books, and definitely meets the multiple means of representation that UDL recommends.
Patrick
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Free "Helping Your Child" series
From Shane H. over on ADHD & LD Resource Blog.
Free "Helping Your Child" series
From Shane H. over on ADHD & LD Resource Blog.
Free "Helping Your Child" series
From Shane H. over on ADHD & LD Resource Blog.
Free "Helping Your Child" series
From Shane H. over on ADHD & LD Resource Blog.
Free "Helping Your Child" series
From Shane H. over on ADHD & LD Resource Blog.