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-65405-4705350High Tech Device NameQuick-PenExtensions of this DeviceMiscellaneousSchool Use/DescriptionPens that can scan words in the text, and translate correctly for Dyslexic readers. In addition, there are pens that can act as translation pens as well for language students! Think to the nth degree, and you will find pens for scanning notes, and scanning data for people not near scanners.I used to work in the Social Equity Office at college. This office serves students with learning disabilities. For example, for the hearing impaired, readers would be hired to read texts onto audio tape. The students would have these to listen to since they were unable to read, or some students just processed it better with audio. One other service was attending the classes with students and taking notes with them to allow them to succeed better in a course. This type of pen would be a great assistant in an office for learning disability students.There is a utube video of this device, as well as speech mechanism that reads aloud to you. LED screen allows you to read as well as hear the content.Email:info@quick-Utube video:$219.00 is the lowest price800-204-1549Low End Device NameAdapted Book using popsicle sticksAbility to involve all students in the manipulation of something at seemingly simple as page turning, but this is not that simple with specific disabilities such as hand inflexibility, etc.School Use/DescriptionThis allows students to access books on their own and offers a simple solution to turning pages at their own pace.I like the fact that ideas such as this really get across how helpful assistive technology can be for students. It takes some ideas and familiarity with Assistive Technology to realize how to think creatively without electronic devices to assist with educational needs (without a computer!)’s, Wal Mart sells these. You can even find these on Amazon to purchase! Amazon, for 1000 they are almost $10.00.High End Device NameAutomatic Page TurnerManufacturer:AbleNet, Inc.2808 Fairview Avenue North Roseville, Minnesota 55113-1308United StatesDistributor(s):eSpecial Needs, LLC11704 Lackland Industrial DriveSt. Louis, Missouri 63146United StatesSchool Use/DescriptionThis is perfect for individuals that have limited motor control, the buttons provided allow pages to be turned with one click without the full motion of hand and arm movement, which is sometimes restricted.Price: 3600.00. =185101&trail=0&discontinued=0VendorAbleDataThe maximum spine width accepted is 1.18 inches.This shows how different devices accommodate different sizes of books on the market for this device.Augmentative Communication Consultants Inc.PO Box 731Moon Township, Pennsylvania 15108United StatesTelephone: 800-982-2248 or 412-264-6121.Fax: 412-269-0923.Web: : acci1@.Standard 3 INFORMATION and KNOWLEDGEStandard 3.3 INFRMATION TECHNOLOGYI LOVED this assignment to find varying types of resources, High end and low end for the LSC 5510 Course. This is vital, just as attending a conference to obtain the latest resources available for educators, to be the most productive and accessible to students as possible. This inquiry did in fact force me to look outside the box of standard resources I would use, and in fact include students with special needs as part of the regular curriculum, without examining how to do so in a physical written curriculum. Thanks to many courses at Mansfield, we have talked about how resources that include assistive devices, as well as screens and vocal activated sites are left out and those that rely on these, such as those with sight or hearing impaired, have no resources to reach the curriculum. This is often more than not, an item not included when resources are bought for the Media Center. I feel this is also being proactive as a Media Specialist in remembering these key aspects. Connecting with Standard 3.3, certainly the fact that digital tools and resources not usually on the radar are examined is vital, and they are available for a reason. Also, supporting and communicating in a digital society for all members, all patrons is a key to this planning and being proactive of all resources needed.Standard 3 – Information and Knowledge3.4 Research and Knowledge CreationA. Copley High School, Copley Ohio. 9-12 High SchoolCasida, Fiona. “Think Outside the Container: Mobile Devices in the Classroom.” PREZI. 11 October 2011. WEB. 11 Feb. 2012. < . “Pixelated: eReaders & iPads in the School Library.” EBLOG. 23 May 2011. WEB. 11 Feb. 2012. < , Fraser. “Mobile Education Consultant.” WEB. 11 Feb. 2012.< investigating the approach that Copley High School has taken with wireless devices, it is easy to see their approach to technology is far reaching and wide open. It is exciting to see the Librarian, Fiona Casida, embrace the technology, all the technology, not just one, but several “containers” that all hold the keys – access to technology, and not isolated to one device. Copley’s School Library uses the Nook, Kindle, Sony ereaders, the ipad, and ipod. Money that had been used for textbooks is not being used for ebooks and implementing technology into the schools. Students and faculty do get the chance to take these devices, if needed and they don’t own one home. Agreement contracts are signed and state the price of the replacement cost, and all are held accountable, but held free to explore and experiment. As speaker Frasier Spears states on his website as a consultant, “Give the technology to the student and let them experiment” as he states in his talk at the Abilene Christian University Summit in 2010. I love his statement that no longer will students need to be taken to the lab, or a special “room” to perform technology, it is soon going to be existent everywhere. He considers the wiring structure as important as the heating or electrical system of a school.If you see Copley High’s Prezi, you will see the dynamic and multitude of resources that they have and utilize, with the Library Specialist as the guide and facilitator. It shows the importance and benefits of having such a wide array of mobile devices. It was also evident that some of the negatives were being overcommitted to the groups that need to utilize the technology that is offered. As snags and bumps occurred, Copley deals with it. With the itunes being part of ipads, they did manage to work a long list of tunes and not having the itunes ordering availability to all students. All devices in Copley work on one network, and it seems the initial hardship of representing all devices is a challenge, but once all are able to work on the same network, then bringing your own devices becomes a standard. B. Empire High School, Vail, Arizona. K-12.Ishizuka, Kathy. "High-Tech High." School Library Journal 51.10 (2005): 26-27. Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 Feb. 2012.Martin, Jonathon. “Visiting Vail’s Empire High School: Good lessons in 1:1 laptop?schooling.” Archived Entry. 21k12: Exploring & Celebrating 21st c. K-12 education Around the World and at St Gregory College Prep. 25 August 2010. 11 February 2012. < school-good-lessons-in-11-laptop-schooling/>.What I think is amazing is seeing the date of this article at 2005. Empire had decided to go “textbook-less” but certainly not bookless. Spearheading this movement, Apple laptops were distributed, and ebooks at that time in fiction were still in text form. Yet, there seemed to be little or not problems stated or realized with this overhaul to start a new year without textbooks. I speculate that the support of the administration, and the IT Department, and it seems the active role of the Librarian, Sharon Gaddis, were the success of this change. It seems Sharon is the librarian for the while district, and that in itself is a major development. Yet, to support the movement away from textbooks, back on 2005, when many are considering now, seems to have been mountainous steps towards technology as a school district.What I liked the best was seeing how this was supplemented. The normal textbook budget was put towards the laptop initiative. In addition, and a computer lab fund of was added in. If you think about it, the computer lab fee coincided with what Frasier Speirs said above, that there will be no designated room or area for a lab, no special place for students to get technology, if done right, it will be everywhere the teacher turns. In expecting a life of four years, I think this does give the school district plenty of time to look into funding future investments of assuring the technology will continue. I also noticed the mention of teachers creating lessons that did meet the students’ needs. My thought is that if there are no physical books existing in the school, the teachers that are serious about their professions will meet the challenge of detailed and technologically adept lessons if they have technology to use in place of textbooks. There is little demand for the need to rely on paper, to rely on textbooks, when the main component is a textbook-less school. I am assuming that the books in the bookstore will still exist, yet, I am wondering. Following the years of 2005, and having met the initiative of being textbook-less so early, was a transition to ebooks quickly decided with the popularity of the apple as text? I was curious, so I went to look at where Empire Schools is now.I found that there is a whole section devoted to faculty, and students, through the ISTE publication, Learning and Leading with Technology. Then, through the links, you can go to the ISTE website and see connections to Parents and Teachers with technology issues, and so much more. I see the school’s program is titled, Beyond Textbooks. The link that follows, that textbook are used, but they seem to take secondary seat to the use of “unwrapping ideas” and projects for students. This program is geared towards teachers, and not really mentioning students. The interesting things is that over 26 other areas in Arizona combine with Empire to meet the expectations and standards that technology is expecting for a 21st Century learner today. It seems projects can truly be shared all across the state. I was a little disappointed, because I did not find much more about the computer initiative in the Empire School District. I did visit the library site, and it is pretty standard with Ebooks from Follett, as well as a wordpress blog as the site, but hoped to hear more about how the initiative among students and accommodations for mobile devices has been addressed. However! I did find an article at by Jonathon Martin and saw as a follow up in 2010, that Empire was still known for its now 1:1 laptop program. So they did still implement the one to one ratio of laptops. What was sad, as the author, Martin stated, was that emails and many sites were blocked and restricted. Ironically, the day he has visited in 2010, there had just been a storm and internet outage. Yet, the students still had visible lessons of technology as one class was demonstrating creating virtual flashcards, and another using a document camera for showing grid and equation graphing.Overall, the remark that there was only one whiteboard in the school did illustrate the fact that Empire School District has chosen to place the technology in the hands of students 1:1 and letting the teachers ride alongside the students with the emphasis on laptops. It seems to have done well in the longevity. Now being in a school where all is unblocked, and students thrive, I would like to see the unrestricted block occur to begin the social responsibility of technology. I am not sure of it is the students, or the teachers, that are not ready for this step!Very good job and well done. This is interesting and exciting stuff. And just think about what even the near future will bring. Grade 10Overall the reason I chose this assignment, which was to identify several schools where wireless has been implemented and utilized as an integral part of the education, allowed me to see how different needs involving wireless for different schools, fuel different sources of project-based activities. Creativity and innovation need to be part of the position of Media Specialist as varying elements of what cannot be controlled, connectivity, the reactions to students’ learning, etc. are part of the learning process in a Media Center. I began to actually investigate how other schools, in differing methods, utilized wireless technology to fit the needs of the curriculum, for that specific school’s needs. Otherwise I would have continued to work in our Media Center in a sort of bubble, isolated to our needs and what our accomplishments continued to be. Along with seeing and acquiring knowledge of other schools’ methods for implementing wireless, the resources that schools also utilize for their specific curriculum based on their connectivity comes out building the possible stage for cross school collaborative ideas. It is vital to be aware and updated of events and activities in other libraries/Media Centers to help answers for possible problems that will ultimately come with a more and more advancing electronic Media Center. In looking at Standard 3 and Standard 5.1, it is easy to see that the elements of research and knowledge creation trickle down from the Media Specialist. In looking to how other methods are used across the world in Media Centers, the chance to grow is even greater. ................
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