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Key
questions should be considered when selecting educational applications to meet
students goals and objectives
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What is the intended outcome of the use of the
educational application?
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Is the educational application likely to fulfill
its stated purpose?
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Can the educational applications be used as an
alternative to traditional classroom activities to enhance student
participation?
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Kinds of
educational applications that can be used to address automaticity/math fluency
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FASTT Math (Fluency and automaticity through
Systematic Teacher with Technology) a math intervention program that helps
students acquire math fact fluency
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Timez Attack (Big Brainz) focuses on
multiplication facts, teaching the 2 to 12 times table.
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ArithmAttack is an online game that students can
practice basic math skills.
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Arcademic Skill Builder that is games designed
to help develop automaticity in math skills.
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Kinds of
technology tools can be used to address visual-spatial or motor control
difficulties
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MathPad (Cambium Learning) A talking math
worksheet program
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Virtual Pencil is an educational application
designed for students who are pencil impaired.
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Number Navigator (Oats Progect) Serves as a
simple math processor.
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Scientific Notebook (MacKichan Software) A
high-end application that is designed to do more than allow users to write
equations on the computer but to solve equations.
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Kinds of
educational applications can be used to teach math concepts, math skills, and
problem solving
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Math Playground- provides wealth of recourses to
support learning math concepts.
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Conceptua Math-focuses on fractions and offers a
variety of tools for teachers to use to enhance their whole class instruction.
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Destination Math-targets the development of
skills in math reasoning, conceptual understanding, and problem solving for
students in grades K-12.
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Kinds of
low-tech and mid-tech adaptations can assist students with disabilities in
completing math assignments
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Manipulatives
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Fraction rubber stamps
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Number lines
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Multiplication tables
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Rulers
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Plastic Coins
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Strategies
teachers can use to overcome “learned helplessness”
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Build a daily expectation of communication
through specific activities such as choosing the activity during recess,
picking a book to read, or identifying where to eat lunch
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Construct a brief daily report to parents that
is communicated by the student
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Allow natural consequences to occur and provide
avenues for repair.
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Provide for choice making whenever possible that
requires the student to use his or her augmentative communication system.
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Provide powerful phrases on the device for
students to reject or protest something.
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Integrating
augmentative communication into the IEP
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Important that student’s use of system is
integrated within and across the school day, including instructional and
noninstructional periods.
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Once a system is determined the components of
the system should be outlined in the IEP.
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IEP should also include the use of the
augmentative communication system within the students educational program to
ensure that fundamental opportunities are provided for the student to practice
communicational skills.
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IEP must clearly state student’s communication
needs.
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List of augmentative communication services to
be provide by related service personnel and identification of the party
responsible for device maintenance and operations.
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Importance
in supporting the use of augmentative communication systems at home and in the
community
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Reinforces the communication skills learned in
school and helps generalize them to other settings.
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Critical to success of augmentative
communication.
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Both environments reflect different and varied
communication demands, and coordinated efforts can significantly increase the
likelihood of effective communication.
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Using augmentative communication systems in the
community make it easier for the individual to communicate with unfamiliar
people.
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Designing
a students augmentative communication system to meet the communication demands
of home and the community
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Appropriate vocabulary needs to be added to the
augmentative communication system.
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Use of board maker can help to create and
collaborate different materials for every activity and lesson to allow the
student to communicate with those individuals around them.
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Clear organization is mandatory for easy access
and navigation.
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Progress must be monitored to make sure the
child is progressing appropriately.
Tara, I think your blog is very detailed and explains the main purpose of the topic. Next time, for other readers it may be nice to add a short sentence or two that follows each blog, so that readers are able to follow along!
ReplyDeleteThe information you have provided is very useful to all educators. In the technological age we work in there is so much out there for our students to benefit from and you have provided great resources. If someone in the field of education stumbled upon your blog that would benefit from reading what you have provided. Great job!
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