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Definition: Any piece of technology that helps a student with or without a disability to increase or maintain his/her level of functioning
Examples:
1. Low tech
- Pencil grip
- Planners
- Audiobooks
- Digital clocks
- Calculators

2. Mid-High Tech
- Digital recorders
- Digital books
- Graphing calculators
- Electronic math worksheets
- Portable or adapted keyboards
- Mobile technology (tablets, ipods, ipads, smartphones)
- Reading systems
- Speech recognition software
- Speech recognition system
- Softwares that edit and predict words
- Talking calculators
- Dynavox

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Sett Framework: a tool that helps teams gather and organize information that can be used to guide collaborative decisions about services that faster the educational success of students with disabilities
SETT = student, environment, tasks, and tools
The Student
- What are the functional area of concern?
- Special needs (related to area of concern)
- Current abilities (related to area of concern
- Expectations and concerns
- Interests and preferences
The Environment
- Arrangement (instructional, physical)
- Support (available to both the student and the staff)
- Materials and equipment (commonly used by others in the environment)
- Access issues (technological, physical, instructional)
- Attitudes and expectations (staff, family, other)
The Tasks
- What specific tasks occur in the student's natural environment that enables progress toward mastery of IEP goals and objectives?
- What specific tasks are required for active involved in the identified environment?

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1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9pKkZoJDc&t=6s

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI-bigV2bPc&t=16s

3. https://www.ldatschool.ca/learning-modules/technology-for-all/instructional-assistive-technology/

4. https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/module/at/challenge/#content

5. http://www.joyzabala.com/uploads/Zabala_SETT_Leveling_the_Learning_Field.pdf

6. https://www.readingrockets.org/article/assistive-technology-inclusive-classrooms

7. https://newedtechclassroom.com/how-to-use-education-technology/

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6cRQTo02E0

9. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/6-ed-tech-tools-to-try-in-2021/

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Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities Video

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Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities Video

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The National Center for Learning Disabilities

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Assistive Technology and Learning Disabilities

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Understanding Assistive Technology: Simply Said

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Assistive Technology vs. Instructional Technology & Universal Design for Learning Video

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Assistive Technology vs. Instructional Technology & Universal Design for Learning Video

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Dr. Therese Willkomm, ATP - Assistive Technology vs. Instructional Technology & Universal Design for Learning

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An interview with Dr. Willkomm - Three Questions in 5 minutes.

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1. Mote

An app that make feedback more efficient.

Voice comments feature.

Decreases misconceptions.

2. AllSides

A free app  that provides and rates news from all sides of the political spectrum.

Has free classroom activities.

An excellent resource for history, social studies, and English teachers to help support their students' ideas with textual evidence.

3. Google Lens

A virtual search tool that identifies and provides information on objects by pointing your camera at an object.

Makes research more engaging.

Makes storytelling more unique.

4. Bulb

Assists in putting together a digital portfolio

Individual pages can include: text, images, videos, embedded content from other apps, and attached files

Student use: portfolios for projects; showcase creative work such as visual art, writing, speaking, or video editing; collection of artifacts from sports or extracurriculars; and build a portfolio for college applications

Teachers use: professional portfolio or gather items around items of interest

5. EmbraceRace

A site that offers resources, discussion spaces, webinars, and networks to meet the challenges of raising children in a world where race matters

Good site for teachers and parents

Emphasizes conversation

Attempts to fix race-related problems

6. Prezi Video

Provides opportunity for student and teacher interaction

Can be pre-recorded

Can incorporate screen graphics

Provides templates to make lesson planning faster and easier.

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Step 1: Determine how you want to measure the expected outcome
- Speed or rate
- Accuracy
- Frequency
- Duration latency
Step 2: Collect baseline data on the student's performance
Step 3: Collect data when the student is using the technology
Step 4: Evaluate the effect of the technology

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Misconception 1:
Using technology is cheating

Technology is tool to help students get work done and reach their academic potential.

Misconception 2:
Technology lessons the act of doing the work

Technology helps students want to do the assignments.

Technology increases student engagement.

Misconception 3:
Technology gives an unfair advantage

Audio books makes it easier for students to read and understand the book.

Anyone with or without disabilities can use it.

Technology helps them students reach their goals.

Technology presents information in a new way such as: podcasts, journals, blogs, videos and etc.

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Benefits classroom as a whole

Helps with social emotional learning skills.

One student was very shy and introverted

Now, the student is proud of their work and has courage to share with classmates with use of technology.

Integrated IPAD using apps such as seesaw and keynote - online journals

Students showcase work in front of class.

Helps with ADHD.

Technology engages students in ways that paper and pencil cant and teachers cannot always do.

Students are more focused.

Technology allows people to take responsibility for their own work and provides metacognition.

Give students a choice on the platform they want to use to complete the assignment.

Digital learning is student centered.

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Definition: Any piece of technology that educators integrate into their instructional practice to engage students and enhance students’ learning
Examples

1. Tablets

2. Interactive whiteboards

3. Smartphone apps

How to use

Digital technology in the classroom makes homework, handouts In class work more accessible to students.

Audio books are a tool for students that face challenges with instructional rhetoric.

Reading programs like read naturally and Newsela give all students the best opportunity to comprehend at their grade level.

Teachers are able to personalize instruction for each student by using visuals and videos to have the best learning outcome.

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1.SETT was created to guide the selection, acquisition and use of AT devices and services and other supports.
2. After taking in consideration goals and expectations, if the student can work toward mastery of those goals WITHOUT AT, then it is a good idea not to make things more complex by putting an unneeded device in the mix.
3. If a family does not want to use technology, then work with them to find a solution that works for them. Gradually have the student try out using an available device to get some evidence in the difference between the quality, quantity or ease of what can be done with the tech and without it.
4. When determining the right assistive technology for the student, you should consider all environments the student is involved in the school (classroom, cafeteria, playground, hallway, bus), home, and community.
5. Choosing assistive technology is a group effort; collaboration is key!
6. All phases within the SETT framework are essential for success.