ISABEL BARBOSA

Teacher Productivity/Adaptive Technology/Innovative Uses

CSN Education Department, EDU 214
10/03/2021
 Adaptive Technology:
◦ Software: PECS AND PECS® IV+

◦ It's published intended use: The Picture Exchange Communication System, or PECS, allows people with little or no communication abilities to communicate
using pictures. People using PECS are taught to approach another person and give them a picture of a desired item in exchange for that item.

◦ Fee Structure: Free and available to download on the iOS Apple store for free.

◦ Specifically for the special education population: PECS is a unique alternative/augmentative communication system developed in the USA in 1985 by Andy
Bondy, PhD, and Lori Frost, MS, CCC-SLP. PECS was first implemented with pre-school students diagnosed with autism at the Delaware Autism Program.
Since then, PECS has successfully been implemented worldwide with thousands of learners of all ages who have various cognitive, physical and communication
challenges. The PECS teaching protocol is based on B.F. Skinner’s book, Verbal Behavior, and broad spectrum applied behavior analysis. Specific prompting
and reinforcement strategies that will lead to independent communication are used throughout the protocol. The protocol also includes systematic error
correction procedures to promote learning if an error occurs. Verbal prompts are not used, thus building immediate initiation and avoiding prompt dependency.
PECS consists of six phases and begins by teaching an individual to give a single picture of a desired item or action to a “communicative partner” who
immediately honors the exchange as a request. The system goes on to teach discrimination of pictures and how to put them together in sentences. In the more
advanced phases, individuals are taught to use modifiers, answer questions and comment. The primary goal of PECS is to teach functional communication.
Research has shown that some learners using PECS also develop speech. Others may transition to a speech generating device (SGD). The body of research
supporting the effectiveness of PECS as an evidence-based practice is substantial and continues to expand, with more than 190 research articles from all over
the world.

◦ The URL of the company website?: https://pecsusa.com/pecs/

 INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Night Zookeeper

◦ It's published intended use: Night Zookeeper is your online writing tool, class blog and library of interactive lessons. Night
Zookeeper inspires children to fall in love with reading and writing.

◦ Fee Structure: There are three payment options for Night Zookeeper, with each plan coming with a free 7 day trial period:
$12.99/month for monthly plan. $11.33/month for three-month plan (paid upfront as $33.99) $5.00/month for annual plan (paid
upfront as $59.99)

◦ Ways you can see it fitting into the K-12 curriculum?: Night Zookeeper is an online writing platform designed to help inspire
pupils aged 6-12 years old to produce their best writing. This will be accomplished through Edutainment. Students are encouraged to
practice their grammar, spelling and composition skills. Night Zookeeper offers teachers the ability to send lessons to students using
the interactive lesson library, which can be completed either at school or through distance education. Night Zookeeper is a fun and
innovative way to start your students writing in your classroom.

◦ The URL of the company website?: https://www.nightzookeeper.com/

 INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Canva

◦ It's published intended use: Canva is a free graphic design platform that allows you to easily create invitations, business cards, flyers, lesson plans, Zoom backgrounds, and more
using professionally designed templates. You can even upload your own photos and add them to Canva's templates using a drag and drop interface.

◦ Fee Structure: Canva Free: For people and teams wanting to design absolutely anything, from logos and social media content to documents, prints and more. Canva offers tons of
free templates, photos and fonts to bring your vision to life. Canva offers a Free Plan with limited features. Canva Pro: Canva Pro is for people and teams wanting to collaborate and
grow their business. Canva includes social scheduling, team templates, brand management and other productivity tools. Canva Pro is $12.99 if you choose to be charged monthly or
$119.99 when paid annually. Canva Enterprise: Canva Enterprise is for large organizations needing design and communication tools at scale. Simplify your teams’ work with
integrations to tools you use every day, advanced security and built-in approval workflows. Canva Enterprise must have minimum 20 users. Canva Enterprise starts at $30.00 per user
per month. Canva Pro is free for education and nonprofits: Whether you’re a teacher or student, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in
the classroom and beyond. It’s 100% free for K12 teachers and their students.

◦ Ways you can see it fitting into the K-12 curriculum?: Everyone has different learning styles and Canva truly incorporates this philosophy. Canva uses the famous proverb a picture
is worth a thousand words to help support learning at all levels. Canva is a fantastic tool for learning. Teachers can use Canva to present curriculum to students in a visually appealing
manner, as well as students having the opportunity to demonstrate new concepts they have learned in a clear and unique way. Canva has opened a once closed door to students and
teachers who can now become design scholars. Learning together as students and teachers working towards a common goal Canva allows for the creation, the ability to share, and
revise concepts learned. Canva gives teachers and students the right tools for creativity and production to get the job done.

◦ The URL of the company website?: https://www.canva.com/education/

INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Epic!

◦ It's published intended use: Epic! is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of
the world’s best publishers—that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.

◦ Fee Structure: Epic! is a monthly digital book subscription for kids offering unlimited books for children 12 and under! The monthly cost is $9.99. Epic!
is available on all iOS and Android devices and offers over 20,000 books and is totally ad-free. Gift Reading with Epic! You can also use Epic at no cost
with Epic Basic, which lets kids read a free book a day from a limited library of high-quality books. FOR EDUCATORS: EPIC SCHOOL. Epic School is
free for elementary school educators worldwide.

◦ Ways you can see it fitting into the K-12 curriculum?: Epic allows students the opportunity to select their own reading level system (AR, DRA, F&P,
GRL, Lexile). Epic offers teachers the ability to search and assign books at the right level for their students. Teachers have the ability to share their screen
during a zoom meeting of meets. Google and allowing students the opportunity to listen to a read aloud. Teachers using Epic finally have another tool to
target specific reading skills which will help students grow as readers during distance education or in person learning.

◦ The URL of the company website?: https://www.getepic.com/

Isabel Barbosa
INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Quizlet

◦ Intended use: Quizlet is a learning tool that allows students to make flashcards, and practice information retrieval and long-term
retention.

◦ Fee structure: Free, with the option to upgrade to premium for $47.88 annually. Premium includes features such as expert
explanations and step-by-step learning.

◦ K-12 curriculum: I've been using Quizlet for years and it has helped me significantly. It's a convenient way to create study
resources and reference them on the go. It's a great way for students of all ages to create positive study habits, and like the website
mentioned, to increase retention of material. whenever I had a big test coming up in high school, I would make a set of study
flashcards and practice them throughout the day, whether it was on the bus, during lunch, or at home on my computer. It's very
accessible to students and can be used across all devices. Quizlet allows for teachers to create study sets for students to access, or
students are able to create flashcards on their own.

◦ URL: https://www.quizlet.com/ Tylee Crosson

INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Peardeck

◦ Intended use: Peardeck offers interactive lessons to keep students engaged in both the classroom and remote or hybrid learning
environments. This software allows teachers to add interactive assessment questions into presentations. Students can respond to
these questions and receive feedback in real-time.

◦ Fee structure: Free for basic use including interactive assessments, vocabulary flashcard tools, and easy student accessibility.
$149.99 annually for additional features.

◦ K-12 curriculum: I was drawn to Peardeck because it can be integrated into tools that teachers, students, and parents are already
familiar with. Peardeck allows for a more interactive approach to giving presentations and lectures. It can be useful across all grade
levels and it's compatible with both Microsoft and Google programs. I like how the assessments can be either simple multiple-
choice questions or can be more creative and allow students to draw and use images to answer questions. This is also an amazing
tool for keeping students engaged via remote learning.

◦ URL: Peardeck
INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: 99 Math

◦ Intended use: 99 Math is a multiplayer game that provides engaging math practice to increases math fluency. Students can join a
live game easily with a join code and play against other students.

◦ Fee structure: Free

◦ K-12 curriculum: Math 99 is a great resource for increasing math literacy. It covers different areas of mathematic topics from
grades 1-12 and allows you to track your student's progress based on how they score in the game. There are also scores for your
overall class to track what mistakes were made and what topics need to be focused on. This software reminds me of Kahoot,
which I always enjoyed playing while I was in school. It's a high-energy game and students will get super into it. It's an amazing way
to get students excited to practice math. Another benefit is how accessible it is. Teachers create a join code, share it with the class,
and students can access it and play on their choice of device.

◦ URL: 99 Math
INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Mural

◦ Intended use: MURAL is a space for your team to collaborate visually and problem-solve faster with an easy-to-use digital canvas. No
ordinary online whiteboard, MURAL has powerful facilitation features, guided methods, and the deep expertise organizations need to
transform teamwork.

◦ Fee structure: Free for unlimited members. Team: $9.99 per member/month annually. Business: $17.99 per member month billed
annually. Enterprise: you have to call them for pricing.

◦ K-12 curriculum: Mural is an online whiteboard that helps you design together and solve problems visually. They have team-building
exercises, presentations, visual collaboration, planning, design thinking, and education design. Mural can reach teams all around the world.
You add sticky notes, images, drive and drop files on the canvas. I would use Mural to drop pictures images on my whiteboard to have
the younger student interact with pictures and words and numbers. I will let them match the pictures to CVC words, Uppercase letters to
lowercase letters, I would draw a certain amount of objects and have the students count them and match them to the correct number. For
the older students, I will use this to take polls and surveys to create a pie or bar chart to get their input about different subjects like How
many of you have pets? What is your favorite subject in school? Favorite color just to name a few. Then I would show them how to input
that to get the percentage of each survey we took.

Jozetta Williams
◦ URL: https://www.mural.co/cases
INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Newsela

◦ Intended use: Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that brings together engaging, accessible content with integrated assessments and
insights to supercharge reading engagement and learning in every subject. Content on Newsela covers topics students care about, that connect
to core curriculum, and are aligned to standards.

◦ Fee structure: The Newsela pricing is dependent on the plans you choose. The Newsela pro can be expected as $6000 per school, $2000 per
grade level and $18/student per year.

◦ K-12 curriculum: Newsela is a great and useful website. You can input different levels for the articles on this website to help with your
students reading needs as well as they can read the articles to your student for you. They have local news articles as well as you can input
different articles subjects and they can come up as well. “With new content added every day, teachers keep lessons engaging with texts and
concepts that are top of mind for students.”- Newsela I have used this website for my tutoring students grades 3rd through 5th. They have
written paragraphs, discussed what they learned, and even done directive drawing on a certain subject we have read about. This is a very good
website tool to use.

◦ URL: https://newsela.com/about/products/ela
INNOVATIVE USES:
◦ Software: Quizzizz

◦ Intended use: Quizizz is an Indian creativity software company headquartered in Bengaluru, India, that creates and sells a gamified student engagement
platform. The software is used in class, group assignments, pre-test review, formative assessments, and pop quizzes.

◦ Fee structure: Intro : Free: Try all the bells and whistles for a limited number of activities and No credit card is required Standard: Engage every remote
employee and customer on any device. $19 per month, per host. Billed annually. Premier: Custom branding plus corporate training and customer
engagement tools. $48 per month, per host. Billed annually. Enterprise implementation: Contact them. Nonprofit pricing: We’d love to support your
mission! Our nonprofit plan includes everything in Standard at a lower price.

◦ K-12 curriculum: Quizzizz can be used to create games that students can interact with each other and be in competition with one another live. Teachers
can assign homework through this website. You can get data for your students so you can grade it as well. Quizizz is a website used by educators to bring
more fun to the class through technology. Quizzes can be individualized for students and even be used to send different tests to students to prevent
cheating in testing mode. When students answer a question, students can see funny pictures based on if they answered incorrectly or not. Students can also
earn powerups through this system as well for fun during a quiz. Teachers can see the grades of every student as well as how the class did as a whole on
questions immediately. Teachers can either create their own quizzes or look up other quizzes and use them as their own based on what other teachers have
created on the website. Quizzes can also be shared with other teachers by them signing up and connecting through their schools.

◦ URL: https://quizizz.com