Using Adaptive Computer Technology to Help Educators Prepare K-12

P.I.： 史蒂文·沃尔夫吉尔伯特 在K-12期间没有获得科学和数学坚实基础的儿童将无法为在大学成功学习科学，数学，工程或技术（SMET）做好充分准备。 残疾学生往往属于对高等教育中的SMET学习准备不足的群体。 该项目旨在帮助教育工作者为K-12残疾学生在小型和微型企业领域的进一步学习和工作做好准备。 该项目包括一个侧重于从高中到中学后教育机构过渡的组成部分，因此经常提到K-16学生和K-12学生。 EASI（平等获得软件和信息）的使命是开发，组织和传播信息，并提供有关使用自适应计算和电子信息资源的指导，以帮助残疾学生和教师充分参与学术生活。 EASI已经获得了近十年的声誉，汇编和分发有关残疾人自适应技术的最新信息。 自1995年1月以来，EASI一直致力于一个NSF项目，该项目汇编和传播有关中学后教育中SMET领域使用自适应计算机技术的现有最佳信息。 EASI现在正在扩展以前的工作，重点关注K-12以及中学和中学后教育之间的过渡。 在K-12自适应计算和SMET教学战略方面具有更高专业知识的其他顾问正在帮助建立新的信息基础，并创建新的传播材料和服务。 成果将包括会议介绍、印刷材料、在线研讨会等，重点是： 适合有效教学的自适应计算机技术 在K-12中小企业教育和培训课程中为残疾学生制定的战略; 帮助学生学习适应性技术和学科的教学策略; 激励K-12残疾学生在SMET中取得成功; 提供有关战略和工具的信息，帮助残疾学生达到K-12数学和科学的新国家标准; 促进残疾学生更好地从高中过渡到中学后教育。 AAHE/EASI为该项目开发的材料将主要用于K-12个性化教育计划协调员，SMET教师，K-16管理员和特殊教育协调员（以及直接与现有和潜在的K-12教师合作的教育学校）。

P. I.: Steven Wolfe Gilbert Children who do not get a solid foundation in science and mathematics during their K-12 years will not be properly prepared to study science, mathematics, engineering or technology (SMET) successfully in college. Too often students with disabilities fall into this group of being under-prepared for SMET study in higher education. This project is designed to help educators prepare K-12 students with disabilities for further study and work in the SMET fields. The project includes a component that focuses on transitions from high school to post-secondary institutions so reference is frequently made to K-16 students as well as K-12 students. The mission of EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information) is to develop, organize, and disseminate information and provide guidance about using adaptive computing and electronic information resources to help students and faculty with disabilities participate fully in academic life. EASI has acquired an almost ten-year reputation for compiling and distributing the latest information about adaptive technology for people with disabilities. Since January of 1995, EASI has been working on an NSF project that compiled and disseminated the best available information about adaptive computer technology use in the SMET fields in post-secondary education. EASI is now extending this previous work, with a strong focus on K-12 and the transition between secondary and post-secondary education. Additional consultants with greater expertise in K-12 adaptive computing and SMET teaching strategies are helping to build a new foundation of information and create new dissemination materials and services. Outcomes will include conference presentations, print materials, online workshops, etc. focusing on: Adaptive computer technology appropriate for use with effective teaching strategies for students with disabilities in SMET courses in K-12; Teaching strategies that help students learn both the adaptive technology and th e academic disciplines; Motivating K-12 students with disabilities for success in SMET; Providing information on strategies and tools that will help students with disabilities meet the emerging national standards for K-12 mathematics and science; and Promoting better transition from high school to post-secondary education for students with disabilities. The materials that AAHE/EASI develops for this project will be designed primarily for the use of K-12 Individualized Education Plan coordinators, SMET faculty, K-16 administrators, and special education coordinators (and for those schools of education who work directly with current and potential K-12 teachers).