- Title: 21 Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs
- Source/Author/Date: Control, ALT, Achieve Blog; Eric Curts; October 8,2016
- Key Points: This article lists 21 Google extensions that can be helpful to students with disabilities. The Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level. In this post look at 21 Chrome web extensions that can assist students in five main categories:
- Text to Speech
- Readability
- Reading Comprehension
- Focus
- Navigation
- Relevance: As a Special Education teacher, I am always looking for ways to aid my students with there academic journeys. This is a good reminder of what is availble through Google. It reminds me of some of the practices I learned at the OTEN conference last Spring. It is an excellent reference if one has forgotten about some of the apps that are available.
http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/10/special-needs-extensions.html
I think this article does a great job at shining some light on tools that every teacher has access to but few are aware of. So many of these tools would be useful for Gen Ed students as well but the knowledge of their existence is really more based upon a teachers personal background. To see better collaboration between schools and tech companies would be amazing. We would be able to see an increase in learning while also better preparing students to work in a tech filled world.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for posting this! It is a great resource for teachers to have all these extensions together in one place. I appreciate the text to speech extensions, the ad blockers, and the Beeline reader. As teachers, we need to be knowledgeable of the technology available to students with learning difficulties and visual impairments so that we can help utilize these tools to help them access their instruction in a manner that is equitable to their peers. I had a student with a vision impairment today who had no idea of the resources available to him to help him overcome some of the barriers he is experiencing in the classroom.
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