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Tech Research Brief: Embedded Supports to Differentiate Instruction for Struggling Students

Article
Standards: Informational Text • Language • Writing • Foundational Skills • Speaking and Listening • Literacy in History/Social Studies • Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects
Many of your students with learning disabilities, or those who are struggling, may be anywhere from two to five years behind their peers in reading and writing.To ensure that your students are...

Tech Research Brief: Supporting Reading in Social Studies

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Standards: Informational Text • Literacy in History/Social Studies
The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) represent a shift in the way we approach reading instruction, particularly with regard to content-area reading in history, social...

Tech Research Brief: Using Embedded Agents to Support Student Learning

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Agents and tutors are the lifelike characters in multimedia software and online applications that pop up on the screen to explain rules, provide hints, or prompt the user to use the program’s...

Tech Research Brief: Using Multimedia to Support Reading Instruction

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Standards: Informational Text • Literature
Preparing students to meet the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards in English Language Arts (ELA) involves helping them to become adept at integrating and evaluating information  in a...

Tech Research Brief: Using Texting to Promote Learning and Literacy

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Standards: Writing
Texting and “text speak” can be used to help build reading skills such as word recognition and phonological awareness. You can also use texting to generate discussions of formal and informal...

TechMatrix Consumer Guides

Tools and Templates
These simple and easy-to-use Consumer Guides are decision support tools help school administrators and educational technology vendors learn what questions to ask and how to make informed decisions...

Technology Funding: A How-To Guide

Article
Procuring funds for purchasing new technology is only part of the funding issue for schools and districts. Many people overlook the costs of properly maintaining and evaluating their technology...

Technology Implementation Overview

Leadership Team Support Material
Students should not have to “power down” when they enter a school building. As you know, the key to effectively implementing technology in your district or school is systematic planning. To...

Technology Implementation Practice Guide

Leadership Team Support Material
This Practice Guide presents a roadmap for district- and school-wide technology implementation, as well as best practices for integrating technology into instruction in the classroom. Included in...

Technology Implementation Roadmap

Leadership Team Support Material
This section of the Practice Guide provides best practice recommendations on the core components that district- and school-level leadership teams consider as they progress through the process of...

Technology Implementation Roadmap

Leadership Team Support Material
This section of the Practice Guide provides best practice recommendations on the core components that district- and school-level leadership teams consider as they progress through the process of...

Technology Implementation Strategies that Work! Unit 2, Video 2

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In this brief video from the Center on Technology and Disability, developed by AIR, we address defining leadership team roles and building a communication plan for technology implementation.

Technology Planning: The Educator's Guide

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This article describes the goal setting process for technology integration, including answering questions such as, “What is a good goal?”

Technology Self-Assessment Tool (TSAT)

Tools and Templates
The TSAT has been designed for teachers (to determine their own levels of technology proficiency and to identify personal technology professional development needs), schools/districts (to assess...

Technology Tools to Build a More Accessible STEM Program: Physically “Doing” Science

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Mainstream technology tools with built-in accessibility features, and the availability of virtual reality, simulations, and augmented reality present new opportunities for students with disabilities...

Technology Tools to Build a More Accessible STEM Program: Questions, Argumentation and Use of Evidence

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Mainstream technology tools with built-in accessibility features, and the availability of virtual reality, simulations, and augmented reality present new opportunities for students with disabilities...

Technology Tools to Build a More Accessible STEM Program: Science Literacy, Vocabulary and Discourse

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Mainstream technology tools with built-in accessibility features, and the availability of virtual reality, simulations, and augmented reality present new opportunities for students with disabilities...

Technology Tools to Build a More Accessible STEM Program: Student Engagement and Identity with Science

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Mainstream technology tools with built-in accessibility features, and the availability of virtual reality, simulations, and augmented reality present new opportunities for students with disabilities...

Technology Tools to Build a More Accessible STEM Program: Visualizations, Representation and Modeling

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Mainstream technology tools with built-in accessibility features, and the availability of virtual reality, simulations, and augmented reality present new opportunities for students with disabilities...

Technology Tools to Support Writing

Bibliography
The PowerUp WHAT WORKS Team at the Center for Technology Implementation has conducted extensive reviews of the literature on the use of technology tools to support writing. View our bibliography for...

Teaching Strategies

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School-wide Tech Implementation

Supporting Struggling Students