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Digital Toolkits for Struggling Readers: Empowering Literacy with Technology

Explore how technology can support children with literacy disabilities by enhancing decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills. Discover digital tools, resources, and software to improve reading, writing, and organizational abilities.

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Digital Toolkits for Struggling Readers: Empowering Literacy with Technology

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  1. Digital Toolkits for Struggling Readers in Content-Area Classrooms Cindy Okolo Michigan State University March, 2009 Okolo@msu.edu http://assistive-technology-lab.wiki.educ.msu.edu/

  2. Our mission is to develop complex literacies across the lifespan through multi-disciplinary research.

  3. Who are these kids?

  4. Challenges for Kids with Literacy Disabilities/Difficulties Decoding Vocabulary Comprehension Background knowledge Strategy knowledge & use Confidence Motivation

  5. Challenges for Kids with Literacy Disabilities/Difficulties • Writing mechanics • Handwriting, spelling, writing conventions • Idea generation • Organizing • Revising • Editing

  6. How Can Technology Help? • Support • Reading tools • Organizing • Support for background information • Studying • Scaffolding • Compensate • Bypass reading & writing • Motivate

  7. What’s in your Operating System

  8. Mac • Voice Over • Text to speech • Speech recognition • Screen magnification http://www.apple.com/accessibility/macosx/vision.html

  9. Windows • Magnifier • Narrator (text to speech) • Speech Recognition (VISTA) http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/accessibility/default.mspx#EBB

  10. What’s on your Browser? • Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) • ADD-ONS • Dictionaries & Language Packs: (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3) • Bookmarks: (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:22) • Dictionary: (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7869)

  11. What’s on your Browser? • Hyperwords (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=hyperword&cat=all) • Accessibar (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibar&cat=all) • Marking (highlighting or dogears) (http://yellow5.us/firefox/dogears/) • CLiCk Speak (http://clickspeak.clcworld.net/downloads.html)

  12. What’s in your Bookmarks: Digital Books? • Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) • University of Virginia E-Text Library (http://etext.virginia.edu/ebooks/) • Many Books (manybooks.net) • Amazon, iTunes • Bookshare (http://www.bookshare.org/)

  13. What’s in Your Bookmarks: Turn text to speech • Record your own • Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) • Spoken Powerpoint books • Have someone else do it: • Spoken Text (http://www.spokentext.net/) • http://www.watchingthenet.com/firefox-tip-convert-web-page-text-to-speech-and-save-as-mp3-file.html • YAKiToMe (http://www.yakitome.com/cgi-bin/input.py)

  14. What’s in your Bookmarks: Reference Tools • Visuwords: online graphical dictionary (http://www.visuwords.com/?word=constitution) • Ghotit (http://www.ghotit.com/home.shtml) • Wiktionary (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/) • Shmoop (http://www.shmoop.com/literature/)

  15. What’s on your Computer: Supporting Productivity and Organizing Information • Premier Technologies (http://readingmadeez.com) • Literacy suite • Accessibility suite • Inspiration (www.inspiration.com) • Timeliner(http://www.tomsnyder.com/timelinerxe/)

  16. What’s On Your Computer: Literacy Tools: The Big Six • WYNN (http://www.freedomscientific.com/LSG/products/WYNN.asp) • Kurzweil 3000 (http://www.kurzweiledu.com/) • Solo Literacy Suite (http://www.donjohnston.com/products/solo/) • Read & Write Gold (http://www.readwritegold.com/readwritegoldv9.html) • WordQ and SpeakQ (http://www.wordq.com/) • WriteOnline (http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/writeonline/)

  17. What’s On Your Computer: Literacy Software • Text to speech • Word prediction • Writing Tools • Concept mapping • Templates • Specialized dictionaries • Speech recognition • Revision tools • Study tools • Highlighting • Annotating

  18. What’s Attached to your Computer? • Scanner • Camera

  19. What’s in your Hand?

  20. What’s In Your Hand?

  21. What’s on your Mind?

  22. YouTube Videos Shown in This Presentation • A Vision of K-12 Students Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 • The Machine is Us/ing Us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

  23. Other Videos of Interest • A Vision of Students Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o • Information Revolution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM

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