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Are you SIRIOUS! Assistive Technology with iPads.

Deborah Boylen

@DeborahBoylen

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Core KnowledgePrimary Teacher teach Secondary School. Masters in Education, in Learning Difficulties. Started at Holy Cross College in 2012, Year 7, Year 8, Religious Education, English, Humanities and Big Ideas. 10 years teaching experience, primary and secondary Perth public and catholic sectors.

"Every Student Can Learn and Progress.”

SAMR: Move between Substitution to Redefinition.

SIRI: Redefinition.

Core focus - differentiation and learning difficulties.

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Launch

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PurposeLearning Objective: By the end of the presentation you will be able to set up SIRI, Speech to Text and -Text to Speech.

You will be able to see how SIRI can be used as an Assistive Technology [SAMR: Redefinition].

You will also see student’s work samples.

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Workshop

Tutorial:

Objective:

1. Set up SIRI on your iPad and or iPhone. 2. Get SIRI to type for you 3. Get SIRI to read to you.

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1. Speech to Text

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3. Text to Speech

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2. Speech to Text

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4. Text to Speech

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WorkshopTutorial:

Objective: Set up SIRI on your iPad and or iPhone. Get SIRI type for you and get SIRI to read to you.

Speech to Text - A Speak button will appear when you select text. NOTE: You need the internet for this to work.

Settings, General, Accessibility, Speech, Speak Selection, Voice [choose Language], Speaking Rate [Turtle or Hare], Highlight Content.

Text to Speech - Allows you to have SIRI read to you. Setting, General, Keyboards, Enable Dictation, or Setting, General, SIRI, SIRI.

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Speech to Text. Assistive technology

Spelling of hard words.

Assist with the writing process.

Break from writing or typing.

Struggle to type fast or cannot keep up.

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Text to Speech Assistive technology

Editing writing: grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Reading unknown words

Helps with pronunciation

Read large amounts of text

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Student’s Thoughts

Year 7 Literacy

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Graphic Novels

Foundation English Class.

To help students who cannot read written text the teacher can present the text digitally and take advantage of a number of scaffolds such as hyperlinks, text to speech and hypertext which can simplify or chunk the information, making it accessible to the students (Boyle, 2010).

Furthermore digital books can have video links and prompts such as questions making them more interactive and engaging (Boyle, 2010).

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Graphic Novels

Year 8 and 9 English

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Without differentiation students with a learning difficulties usually have difficulty reading because their disability prevents comprehension of the material and in turn affects their academic outcomes (Boyle, 2010).

Research

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Digital Scrapbooks

Year 7 English

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Learning Management

SEQTA

At Holy Cross College we use a Learning Management System; SEQTA which has Students Conetq, Parent Conetq, Teacher Conetq.

• Download work daily from Conetq.

• For students Accountability [engagement], Direct Message work end of lesson or place work on a Forum.

• For assessment students can submit on eSubmission [from their camera roll] or WISP [copy from Pages].

• Reflect on assessment.

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Reflection

Twitter #switchingtracks

Networking feedback, “How would you use SIRI Speech to Text or Text to

Speech in the classroom as an assistive technology?”

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Assistive Technology, “enhances differentiated instructional strategies and can provide the learner with the necessary learning support” (Gargiulo, 2009, p. 166).

“Teachers who do not take advantage of technology are limiting their teaching in terms of pedagogy used and assessment of learning” (Boyle, 2010, p. 377).

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Final Word

The true value of iPads for learning lies in not learning to use iPads but in using iPads to learn.

For most people, technology makes things easier. For children with learning difficulties,

technology makes things POSSIBLE.

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Future Focus

★Finish Masters in Learning Difficulties.

★Research Accessibility Function on iPads. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/osx/

★Submitting and grading in iTune U.

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References

Boyle, J., & Scanlon, D. (2010). Methods and strategies for teaching students with mild disabilities: A case-based approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Gargiulo, R. M., & Metcalf, D. J. (2009). Teaching in today's inclusive classrooms: A universal design for learning approach. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.