ISTE Standard 2 - Leader by Bailey Hadley

Pebble - GO

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 04:28:35 UTC

Tool Description - Pebble-GO is a great tool for students to use to discover different subjects such as animals, science, biographies, social studies, and even health. I love the font size and how big it is for students to see clearly.

There is also a Spanish text available, which you can see above. I wish there was more languages available for more students such as French or Chinese. I love how many different topics and things there are to do to discover a certain subject.

UDL Connection - I think that this resource could be more accessible for students. I wish that there was more languages available. For early learners, I think it is great to help them discover more complex language but I think kindergarten might a little complex. But for 1st graders and 2nd graders language is great. I think that this source does model exploration and evaulation and gives different avenues for students to explore certain subjects.

PebbleGo cont.

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 04:32:45 UTC

Tool Description - I love that PebbleGo has different topics to explore about empathy such as exploring empathy at home, at school, and in sports or even why empathy is important and the definition of empathy as well! It even has an activity and a video which is so in depth to explore different emotions.

Epic !

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 05:09:11 UTC

Tool Description - I love that with Epic, it genuinely feels like a student could be reading a book. You have full screen options, reading buddies, and reading badges to acquire. I think that the extra encouragements with the reading buddies and reading badges is a great incentive for students to want to read. There is videos, audiobooks, and comics for kids to explore as well. There is also different language options for kids to explore as well such as Spanish, Chinese, and French! Epic has over 2,500 Spanish, 700 French Books, and hundreds of Chinese books.

UDL Connection - I think that this resource overall is pretty good for students. I think the accessibility options should be more obvious for students because it wasn't too obvious to me where the accessibility options were and I had to look it up. Epic has speech to text, read to me books, and audiobooks. For Apple Users, there are tools such as VoiceOver, Seeing AI, and Be My Eyes and these are all tools to help the visual impairment to interact with the app. I do think that Epic meets the identification, exploration, and evaluation because it gives students a chance to do all of these options through picking their books on Epic.

Browser Support

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 05:27:55 UTC

Tool Description - I used Safari to read this article about Winter in Seattle. For Safari, you can have text read to you when you right click on it. There's also a "show in finder", where you can see the definitions of certain words.

UDL Connection - Safari needs better accesibility access for its users. I don't believe it passes the ISTE standard for accessibility as it doesn't really advance or shape a shared vision for empowered learning with technology and it doesn't advocate for equitable access to educational technology to meet the diverse needs of all students. Safari needs to work on adding tools such as immersive reader as I did see it had "reader mode" but there is no great way of adding this to your browser easily and it doesn't seem accessible.

Browser Support cont.

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 05:29:37 UTC

The start speaking is one of the only tools available for the visual impaired that I could find.

Voice - Typing

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 06:02:29 UTC

Tool Description - Voice - Typing on Google Chrome worked a lot better than I expected. It got my voice fast or slow and it didn't use the exclamation marks as much as I thought it would.

UDL Connection - I think that this follows the standard for making sure that it has equitable access to educational technology as it does a good job overall of having voice to text.

Google Translate

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 06:22:03 UTC

Tool Description - I love this story and how the student was able to communicate with their class and that they were also able to grow their English skills as well.

UDL Connection - I believe that this tool does a good job of advocating for equitable access because it does help students get access to their language fast and quick.

OneNote and Immersive Reader

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 06:37:07 UTC

Tool Description - Immersive Reader has a lot of excellent features for OneNote. One of the features that it has is to highlight different parts of speech, text preferences, line focus (helps you specifically focus on certain lines when you're reading). Also, Immersive reader has reading coach which allows students to see their reading score which shows their accuracy, words to practice, and time spent reading. There is also a ton of different languages that a reader/student can choose from.

UDL Connection - Immersive Reader has all the standards mastered. It encourages readers to have a vision for empowered learning with technology, it advocates for equitable access to educational technology, and models the exploration/tools for new learning.

OneNote and Immersive Reader cont.

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 06:38:29 UTC

Read Mode

baileyh534 — 2024-01-29 06:55:32 UTC

Tool Description - With the read mode on, I would say that this article was easier to digest. Without the ads, I was less distracted and was easier for me to pay attention to the article and just the article.

UDL Connection - With the ad blocker, this met the standard to meet the diverse needs for students because some students could struggle with ADHD and having ads could be distracting to some students.