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Ecta Center: Assistive Technology Overview

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource is a comprehensive guide to learn about assistive technologies and their applications in an educational setting.
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Article
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center: Concerns About the Future of People's Well Being

For Students 9th - 10th
As in all great technological revolutions, digital life has and will continue to have a dark side. A discussion that explores this issue.
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Article
Other

Gov Loop: Tips and Resources: Creating Accessible Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
With the massive shift to virtual work and education, it has become crucial that we strive to make all the content we put online accessible, particularly to people with disabilities who often experience barriers to accessing content....
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Article
Edutopia

Edutopia: Making Digital Communications Accessible

For Students 9th - 10th
This article is intended to provide guidance to educators on how to make their digital content accessible to families with many different needs, but the suggestions can also help students understand how to make their own content...
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Article
Other

Web Accessibility in Mind (Web Aim): Captions, Transcripts and Audio Descriptions

For Students 9th - 10th
Accessible multimedia should include captions so it is accessible to people who can't hear the audio well or at all. This also helps people who are still learning a language, when there is a lot of environmental noise, or where one must...
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Article
Other

Texthelp: Making Essential Digital Communications Inclusive & Accessible

For Students 9th - 10th
Online content is often made inaccessible by our choices in font type, color, and size; the lack of captions on videos and alt tags on images; our use of complicated sentence structures; and, the lack of formatting and structure - to...
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Handout
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Trinity Valley Community College: Introd. To Accessibility: Universal Design

For Students 9th - 10th
The goal of Universal Design is to create spaces and products that are as usable as possible to the greatest number of people despite their differences. This page is a course introduction and provides a brief description of universal...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Collection: Becoming Helen Keller

For Students 9th - 10th
Rediscover the complex life and legacy of the author, advocate and human rights pioneer. Helen Keller (1880-1968), who was deaf and blind since childhood, used her celebrity and wit to advocate for social justice, particularly for women,...
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Website
Google

Google Language (Translation) Tools

For Students 9th - 10th
Find language tools, developed by Google, that perform machine translations of short passages of text or of entire Web pages, from English into over 10 world languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian,...
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Website
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Bats

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Software download from the University of North Carolina based on research for "Helping people without sight access and explore spatial information."
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Website
University of North Carolina

Hark the Sound: Sound Game for Kids

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource offers a sound game that is available for free to use with students who are blind or visually impaired.
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Professional Doc
University of Wisconsin

Uwm: Apple Macintosh Software Toolkit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A complete page of free downloads that allow the Macintosh computer to be more easily used by people with poor vision.
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Handout
Other

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario: Aboriginal Literacy

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information about support for aboriginal literacy. As Lieutenant Governor, David Onley focused on accessibility issues and considered the literacy needs of aboriginal people to fall into this category.
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Website
Apple

Apple: Accessibility Technologies in Mac Os X

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site features information about a wide variety of features and technologies designed to provide accessibility to users with disabilities. Apple refers to these features collectively as Universal Access and has integrated them right...
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Activity
Other

Kids Search: Kid's Translator

For Students 9th - 10th
Translate one language into another launguage.
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Activity
Code.org

Code.org: Course E Designing for Accessibility Scenarios

For Students 3rd - 8th
Through learning about accessibility, students recognize the impacts of computing beyond their own lives. Accessibility might not seem like a relevant CS topic, but creating technology that is accessible for underserved users helps make...
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Article
Other

The Conversation: Ten Reasons Teachers Struggle Technology in the Classroom

For Students 9th - 10th
While teachers are expected to integrate technology into the classroom, discover some of the roadblocks.