Along with the exciting plans for a 1:1 iPad learning environment at Burlington High School next year, all Burlington schools are starting to explore iPads in the classroom. While iPads have some great potential for every academic area, perhaps one of the most powerful uses will be in Special Education. iPads have many of the best accessibility tools built into the device's iOS. iTunes and the App Store also feature hundreds of apps for Special Education.
Burlington Public Schools Educational Technology is dedicated to provided our students with the best tools for all learners. Our schools have improving access to products such as Read Naturally and Dragon. Burlington schools are also using more web-based services like Bookshare.
The iPad is now the premier device for accessing applications that help with assistive needs. The list below highlights some of the great games, learning tools, and productivity apps from the App Store for Special Education.
Please contact me if you have any questions about iOS apps for Special Education or Bookshare.
Dennis Villano
villano@burlington.mec.edu
Congratulations on your iPad program! What a wonderful piece of learning technology you have put in the hands of your students and staff. You deserve a lot of praise for being forward thinking.
ReplyDeleteWhen you begin to choose, or add, math apps to your iPad offering, Please consider Tic Tac Math Universal (TTM). TTM is available in three versions, Universal (math facts), Fractions and Algebra. In addition, IPMG Publishing, the developer of the games participates in the Apple Education Program that offers discounts for volume purchases. If that’s not enough, TTM Universal and Fractions were both featured as “New and Noteworthy” and “What’s Hot” by the App Store in June and July of 2010.
TTM is a great math learning tool because of the powerful programming involved in taking a simple, familiar strategy game like Tic Tac Toe and combining it with artificial intelligence to randomly generate game grids. What this means to the game is, no multiple choice or redundancy. What this means for kids is math flash cards educational efficacy but a lot more fun.
From a practical standpoint, the games are set-up to play as one or two players, choose an operation and then the degree of difficulty. It’s a great time filler for any time of the day and kids always love to play Tic Tac Toe.
Please take a look at the game in the iTunes App Store here:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ipmg-publishing/id356838921
Again, congratulations! And thanks for considering Tic Tac Math as App for your iPad program.