ISTE Standard 2 Leader - AT/Diverse Learning by Courtney Sadoski

Pebble Go

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Epic

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AI

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Voice Typing

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Google Translate

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Magic School Choice Board

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Chat GPT

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What features are in place to support reading?

sadoskc — 2024-10-16 19:01:50 UTC

While reading, epic gives you the option to see the book in full screen, lets you zoom in to see the words and pictures better, allows you to adjust the speed that it is being read to you, allows you the option to highlight each word as it is being read, and on certain words you can click on them and it will give you a definition. There is also an option to adjust the volume within the website.

Website features

sadoskc — 2024-10-16 20:14:09 UTC

Options to find books by lexile reading level.
Tab for read to me books and a tab for audiobooks to differentiate the two
There's also a tab for videos instead of looking or listening to a book. This tab also includes "YouTube-like" videos.

Types of books

sadoskc — 2024-10-16 20:22:41 UTC

There are all different types of books available on Epic. There are comic books, science books, action books, predictable texts for younger kids, social and emotional learning topics, and anything else you can think of. There are so many topics and categories of books that you could find just about anything that you would want to read about and the correct age and reading level.

MagicSchool text leveler

sadoskc — 2024-10-17 00:06:21 UTC

I took a 5th grade level text from TIME for kids about saving sea turtles and I leveled it down to a 2nd grade text and up to a 10th grade text.

The 5th grade text has more detail and a larger vocabulary while the 2nd grade text brings down the word count by half or more than half and much simpliler vocabulary but still with the same context and important details to the story. The 10th grade text seems to get rid of some of the filler information and focuses on some of the main details about turtles and the medical journey they took to save ricotta.

5th grade text

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2nd grade text

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10th grade text

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Google Docs voice typing

sadoskc — 2024-10-17 19:53:02 UTC

I have used voice typing previously for some of my homework in high school so I was familiar with how it worked.

I thought it was interesting that when I first said a sentence, I didn't mention anything about punctuation, and when I turned off the microphone it reminded me that I can say things like "period" or "next line".

Trying different volumes and punctuation

sadoskc — 2024-10-17 20:01:22 UTC

I don't know any other languages otherwise I would have tested that out but I decided to try different volumes to see how well it could pick up my voice and it seemed to do pretty well.

I tried talking really loudly, normally, quietly, from farther away, and with music playing in the background and it picked up everything I was saying except for punctuation which I did not mention.

When I did mention punctuation it did add it to my sentence. Even though I knew that it wouldn't add punctuation for me, I tried changing my tone to see if it would do anything and it did not make a difference.

Helpful?

sadoskc — 2024-10-17 20:06:33 UTC

I do see this being helpful for people who have a hard time typing, spelling, or even seeing. There are options to change the language that you are speaking in which is helpful for people who don't know English. I think it's hard to remember about punctuation because we don't say the punctuation when we actually talk but other than that I would say this is a helpful tool.

Google Translated Document

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 06:42:53 UTC

The document that the assignment says to translate was not working with google translate so I decided to translate the 10th grade leveled text that I did in MagicSchool. I translated the document from english (the original language) to french and I don't know french but it seems to have worked well.

It kept the same formatting like the heading text and paragraphs which can be helpful depending on the document.

Failed Translation

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 06:58:35 UTC

I decided to try uploading a different article that included a picture and different article features like headings, captions, and more and it did not translate it to french or spanish.

Google Translate app - speaking option

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 07:06:21 UTC

Again, I don't speak spanish or any other language so I don't knwo how accurate this was but it was really easy to use and translated immediately after you hit the stop button and gives you the option to play it aloud as well as read the translation as well.

Google Translate app - camera text translation

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 07:18:20 UTC

I was actually kind of shocked by this one and how well it worked. As soon as I turned it on it directly translated the words that were on the screen and as I moved the slide show I had it translate, it translated pretty quickly. There was one hiccup I had where it was having issues but once I moved my camera around it worked again. I also liked how when I moved my camera, the perspective stayed the same, like it looked like the words were actually on the screen, which is just a little thing but I thought it was cool. I could definitely see this being helpful, especially for those articles that didn't translate in the google translate online.

Opening the website

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 21:25:22 UTC

When I first opened the website and hovered over the pictures on the main page the titles were read out to me which I did not choose for it to do. This is helpful because it creates less steps for younger students in order for them to get to a point where they feel comfortable using the website.

Also on the front page, there is a clear option to change the language to spanish and when you hover over the titles, it reads them in spanish.

I noticed, as I click on the Pebble Go Next tab which is articles for 3rd-5th grade, that when I hover over the titles to the categories it doesn't to read it aloud. However when you open an article in this section of Pebble Go, it does give you the option to have it read aloud.

In an article

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 21:40:03 UTC

While in an article there are a couple helpful things for students. There is the play button which reads the article to you, there are helpful tabs to find information easier, at the bottom there is a cite button which creates an MLA citation for you so it's easy to use in a piece of writing, theres an article button which creates a pdf of the whole article or just a page which makes it helpful to print out, there is an activity button which creates a comprehension work sheet for the article, and theres a video button which gives you a video example of what is being talked about.

Extras

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 21:49:00 UTC

There is a games section on both Pebble Go and Pebble Go next which is comprehension based and helps students practice their knowledge. There is also a question of the day which is not related and is just a fun voting question. There is also a wheel button which randomizes an article for you to read if you don't know which one to pick. Finally, there is a reading page which provides lots of different books, fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels which read the words to you and turn the pages.

Resources for rhythmic patterns - 2nd grade

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 21:58:00 UTC

I kept with the music standard for grade 2 which includes rhythmic patterns. Chatgpt gave me specific youtube channels to look at that match the standard I want to meet as well as specific videos with descriptions that I could use. It also gave me specific websites that students could use as a resource to practice rhythms by playing and creating them. The websites it provided seem similar to the simulations that it suggests. The simulations seem to be resources that allow students to practice rhythms by playing and creating them. I was a little disappointed by the games, the first one it provided is a good app that I would see helping students learn rhythm patterns, it suggested kahoot quizzes but not a specific quiz that would be helpful, also I don't know if kahoot quiz would be the best way for students to learn rhythms. Bop It could be a fun game to play when there is extra time but still want to be able to practice rhythms but wouldn't be something I immediately go towards. Finally the infographics section says to look on TPT or Pinterest for good options on rhythm posters but I would already think to look for infographics on these platforms so I don't think I would need AI to do this.

I do see how this can be helpful, I would definitely use it to find videos of websites because there are sooo many to look through but I feel like the rest of the resources it provded I could find myself.

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 21:58:12 UTC

Music standard (rhythmic patterns) - 2nd grade

sadoskc — 2024-10-20 22:44:19 UTC

I chose the music standard for 2nd grade which includes rhythmic patterns. The choice board that it created includes many different forms of showing knowledge of the standards and gives students different modalities. I like how in this magic school resource that you can ask it to give more descriptions of each assignment that it gives and also ask it to give a material list so you don't have to do more research than you have to. Thinking of all of these different assignments on your own or try to find different assignments and put them together into one choice board can be time-consuming and by using this resource it can save a lot of time but still come out with good, quality assignments.