Assistive Tech for ELL Students and Students with Language-Based Disabilities

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Learning Tour Overview

Explore how to use various tech tools to meet the needs of ELLs and students with language-based disabilities. Participants will gain knowledge of how to use various websites, Google Chrome extensions, and iOS apps to remove barriers to student learning for all content areas. 

Agenda for the tour:  

Participants will engage in a brief overview of the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) and students with language-based learning disabilities (students with LBLDs). The remainder of the tour will be spent exploring FREE hands-on resources to make several curricular areas more accessible to ELL students and students with LBLDs. These resources include Khan Academy, Rewordify, Read&Write Chrome extension, Snapverter iOS/Android app, and more! Resources range from tools that can be used as early as kindergarten up through high school.  

 

Register for Event

Location

Virtual  – (Meeting link to be provided after registering.)

Host

Erin Foley – Digital Literacy Specialist, Hanover Public Schools

Details

About

Erin Foley is the Digital Literacy Specialist at Hanover Middle School in Hanover, MA, and is a professional development course instructor for MassCUE and the Massachusetts Teacher’s Association. Erin is also a Google Certified Educator and a Google for Education Certified Trainer. She has 14 years of experience as a classroom teacher with 11 of those years specifically in the field of instructional technology. Erin is a member of the Hanover Public Schools Technology Committee and believes that technology is a powerful tool in transforming the learning environment to meet the academic needs and interests of students. Erin has a M.A.T. degree from Quinnipiac University and holds 3 Massachusetts teaching licenses: Instructional Technology (K-12), Elementary (1-6), and Mathematics (5-8). 
 
Prior to being Hanover Middle School’s Digital Literacy Specialist, Erin taught instructional technology at the Galvin Middle School in Wakefield, MA and also taught in the Enfield Public Schools in Enfield, CT. She has experience teaching a variety of grade levels as well as providing technology professional development in a variety of areas.  
Date and Time October 25, 2021  4:00-4:45 pm
Location
Virtual
Level Beginner
Audience K-12 Educators 
MassCUE Member Cost No charge
Limit 25
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Learning Tour Overview Explore how to use various tech tools to meet the needs of ELLs and students with language-based disabilities. Participants will gain knowledge of how to use various websites, Google Chrome extensions, and iOS apps to remove barriers to student learning for all content areas.  Agenda for the tour:   Participants will engage in […]

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