Taken from an article written by Holly Korby, posted by KQED
Teacher Kyle Redford remembers with emotion the day she
unwittingly put an iPad in the hands of one of her 10-year-old dyslexic
students, a day she called “a complete game changer.” While the rest of the
class was working in a writers workshop, she handed the student an iPad and
told him to try and experiment with its speech-to-text feature. With minimal
expectations, Redford figured that the newness and the boy’s curiosity would at
least keep him busy during writing time….
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