Read & Write for Education: Using the Assistive Technology Tool for Instruction and Learning
About the Course
Educators will learn how to use and apply the powerful assistive technology tool, Read&Write for Education. The literacy support tool includes applications for reading comprehension, vocabulary, written expression, and research. Educators will actively participate in applying the tools for instruction as well as develop accommodations for student learning.
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Support the learning needs of students with differences in reading, writing, attention, focus, and vision.
- Increase student access to documents and websites.
- Apply assistive technology tools to improve the speed and fluency of written output.
- Demonstrate the use of Read&Write to build research documents and vocabulary lists.
- Understand the application of assistive technology tools for universal design and differentiated learning.
Reviews
Anne Fahnestock
Excellent and comprehensive course to build your understanding and capacity to use the tools within Read&Write. I found this course to be concise, yet very detailed. I would recommend this to anyone working in special education, or who teaches written expression.
Gretchen Astone
Besides learning how to use these great tools ourselves, we created a working document that we can easily access while teaching students how to use Google Read&Write. Brilliant, Erin!
Bri Filas
Erin set this course up so well, and made it easy to navigate through the content. I learned so much in all 4 weeks, and was immediately able to put these tools to use with students. I plan to work with my entire department on teaching them the tools to use with their students. Even better-Erin had us create a working document that makes it easy to use with our students and co-workers so there is no extra work needed.
