Early Childhood Special Education and Assistive Technology Blog

By:   Kimberly Chouinard , EC-SEAT Scholar App Review : SeeSaw Learning During this time of remote learning, as of April 2020, it is important to consider a few features in selecting the right app for your program's needs and students in presenting, monitoring and assessing student performance: 1. How easy is this SeeSaw Learning app to use for teachers? This app is easy to navigate. It offers tutorials and support pages for teacher to support its use. 2. Ease of use for families and security of information? Parents are invited by teacher to join SeeSaw via email using their email and student code.  For remote learning, parents need to join as the "student" in order to complete work and share with teacher on the app. Compatible with several devices including, Chromebooks, computers, iPads, iPhones, Android tablets, Android phones, and Kindle Fire. 3. What ways or modes will this app give teachers to share learning experiences? The app contains a library of activiti...

Written by: Maggierose Smith , EC-SEAT scholar and interning graduate student           Working in the classroom environment, I often do not see the families of the children as a majority of the students ride the bus in and out of school. To update the families on what their child was working on and experiencing in school, I wrote general newsletters to families.  When beginning to work one-on-one with a student, I wanted the skills to be practiced at home as well as in school. The child often spoke of his iPad at home including the apps he enjoyed using. I incorporated the iPad into his work at school, and found the child was extremely engaged during our time together and enjoyed many of the apps. Knowing the child had an iPad at home, I sent home a letter to parents featuring the Free apps we had been using in hopes they would add these to their iPad for the child to use in the home.  After receiving the l...