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What technology can be helpful to your child? It's all about identifying those tools and features that support individual needs. Here is a brief list of apps, extensions, services, and misc. tools:
- Digital notebooks: Rocketbook
- iOS accessibility features and nightshift
- Speechify text reader
- Annotating: Kami Chrome extension and Notability
- Resources for Digital Text: BookShare, Learning Ally, Blio, Audible.com
- Early Literacy: Endless Reader
- Voice Dream Reader: text to speech with highlighted text
- Scanning and OCR: Prizmo
- Snap Type Pro: scan and type in a worksheet
- Graphic Organizer and Mind Mapping: Inspiration & Inspiration Maps, Mindomo
- Speech recognition (speech-to-text): Mac Dictation; Chrome accessibility
- Math: Panther Math Paper, ModMath; Motion Math
- Typing Assistance: Don Johnson Co:Writer; Co:Writer Chrome Extension; Word Q; Read&Write for Chrome extension
- Integrated reading/writing tools: Don Johnston Solo
- Vocabulary: Visual Thesaurus
- Apps for building focus / time on task: 30/30; Forest
Noteworthy publishers and software companies:
- Notability (iPad)
- Brainingcamp: Virtual Math Manipulatives
- The Critical Thinking, Co: books, and software; iPad apps
- Binary Labs: iPad apps
- Bytes of Learning: UltraKey 6 keyboarding software
- 22Learn Software: Early Literacy apps
Local Resources:
Resources:
- The majority of 11-year-olds have smartphones. And experts are worried, The Guardian
- The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least 8th grade.
- The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019, Common Sense Media
- Is Your Child Emotionally Ready for College? Here’s How Parents Can Help, The Wall Street Journal
- Marin Voice: Referees are leaving sports they love and parents are to blame, Marin IJ
- Childhood anxiety treatment may best be targeted at parents, study finds Philly.com
- Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? The Atlantic
- When A College Student Comes Home to Stay, New York Times
- The Most Important Video Game on the Planet, New York Magazine
- Building the Brain’s “Air Traffic Control” System: How Early Experiences Shape the Development of Executive Function. Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University
- 60 Minutes: What is Brain Hacking? Kids, social media, and addiction. And why parents should care.
- Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Dawson and Guare
- 7 Crippling Parenting Behaviors That Keep Children From Growing Into Leaders, Forbes
- What Over-parenting Looks Like From a Stanford Dean’s Perspective, KQED, MindShift
- We're Thinking About ADHD All Wrong, Says A Top Pediatrician, nprED
- The Marshmallow Test, Dr. Walter Mischel
A very helpful page of products and resources: