Monday, November 24, 2014

How Speech-to-Text Transformed a Student's 5th Grade Year


It all started with one clever & perseverant ten-year-old boy & one harried, but well-meaning teacher (me). Pierce struggled with the same cruel disparity that haunts many dyslexic students: weak written expression concomitant with exceptional ideas, knowledge & intellectual abilities. I was always looking to find strategies to help him get his great ideas into the content of his writing. Although I had serious doubts about the iPads's speech-to-text feature for classroom work, I thought it was worth a try. After several days, I almost fell out of my chair when Pierce commented that he was making real progress and he thought he should use the iPad speech to text for all his writing. Say what? I asked him to show me what he had been writing. (From the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity)   http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_SpeechToTextRedford.html

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