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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Virtual Special Ed: Sent from My iPad

Virtual Special Ed: Sent from My iPad

Virtual Special Ed: Sent from My iPad

First an admission: I am writing this post on an iPad using a voice app called Dragon dictation. Second: I don’t like technology. Let me qualify that: I don’t like technology when it is used as an excuse to deny children the help that they need. A few years ago, two boys showed up at my school. Neither were verbal. Both were having tremendous difficulty in their classes. As it turned out, they had come from a homeschooling environment supported by a virtual special education program. The virtual RSP teacher visited the boys only a few times