Description
Recorded: May 25, 2023
Length: 90-Minutes
This webinar explores how the iPad can be used as a powerful tool to support struggling readers and writers in middle school through higher education. The webinar covers a range of built-in literacy supports available on the iPad, including text-to-speech, word prediction, and highlighting tools, and demonstrates how these features can benefit students with different learning needs.
Additionally, the webinar highlights third-party apps that can enhance the iPad’s capabilities even further, including apps that provide advanced text-to-speech functionality, convert text to sign language, and provide writing supports. Participants will learn best practices for integrating the iPad and its literacy supports into their instruction, and how to evaluate the effectiveness of these tools in improving students’ literacy outcomes!
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:
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Identify and describe the 3 different literacy supports built into the iPad.
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Identify 3 strategies to integrate the iPad and its literacy supports into their teaching practice.
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Identify 3 iPad apps to support literacy.
Mark Coppin, Director of the Center for Accessibility and Disability Resources, North Dakota State University.
