Wired.com posts, iPad a Solid Education Tool, Study Reports. Because the research on the efficacy of iPad use in speech/language therapy and in education as a whole is still so new, I’m always on the lookout for new studies and viewpoints being shared. This article supports the notion that iPads help students to better connect with the content being taught. As an educator with
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Language Builder is another wonderful app put out by Mobile Education Tools, the same developers who created Story Builder and Conversation Builder. Like Conversation Builder, this app uses real photos and pictures are taken in a variety of settings providing ample opportunities for vocabulary building. It offers 3 levels of scaffolding, fill-in-the-blank, cloze procedure (The boy_____), no written prompt. As with many of these
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As my “iPad as a Teaching Tool for Students with Speech, Language and Social Communication Disorders” grant comes to an end, I have started to examine the results and have been very excited! Thought I’d share some specifics… In the area of language I have noted the following in summarizing my grant findings. Overall results: Students were noted to demonstrate a higher degree of
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I really enjoyed the post by GeekSLP, Gaming into education: Can even Angry Birds promote learning? where she talked about how many different apps/games can be used to target language objectives, even Angry Birds! Most of my favorite apps to use are not specifically developed as language apps. In fact, when an app is made specifically for entertainment they are obviously much more captivating. A
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