No other field of education benefits as much from progress in technology as special education. Most developed and developing countries around the world have rules and acts that enable technology assisted training of children with special needs. Technology benefits the special education classroom by allowing teachers to work with more students, and equalizing education for all students irrespective of their needs so that special students are not isolated from peers.
Technology can play a critical role in integrating special education into mainstream education, thereby enabling inclusive education for all. Assistive technology can bridge the gap between regular students and those with physical, mental and developmental challenges by helping them learn on par with their non-special peers.
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Source: Mobicip 4/22/16
Every parent wants to know how to keep their children safe online. In this one-hour presentation, Cyberwise Founder Diana Graber will show you some simple tips and strategies that you can implement to safeguard your online kids. In addition she will introduce you to some of the apps kids use most— like Instagram and Snapchat. You’ll also find out what it takes to raise thoughtful, ethical, and competent digital citizens today.
Diana Graber is founder of CyberWise.org and CyberCivics.com, two organizations dedicated to helping adults and kids learn digital literacy skills. A long-time media producer with an M.A. in “Media Psychology & Social Change,” Graber is also a regular contributor on digital media topics to the Huffington Post and others. She was also Adjunct Professor of Media Psychology at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology (MSPP).
The evening session will take place on Tuesday, May 10 at Holy Family School, from 6:30-7:30 pm in the science lab. Please join us for an informative meeting about keeping your kids safe online.
As we await specific information from the archdiocese, iPad info night has been postponed until a later date in May.
The mobile, connected, personal technology of the digital age is now an integral part of the American (and worldwide) education system. The insurgence of technology into education has, in turn, introduced “neomillennial“ learning styles among students.
The growth of social media use and the resultant volume of personal content is staggering - every minute adds 48 hours of videos on YouTube, 3,600 photos on Instagram, 3,125 photos to Flickr, 100,00 tweets and 684,478 individual pieces of content on Facebook. This avalanche of content, coupled with the permanence of digital data can offer the scope of invincibility, but is invincibility a blessing or a curse? Online sharing of personal information and its easy accessibility requires the use of caution in terms of future consequences..
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