For students with dyslexia, the OpenDyslexic extension converts web page text into a special font designed to make reading simpler, said Monica M. Daniel, an instructional technology coach for McFarland Unified School District. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.
To help make things easier for struggling students, Tracy Sneed, a teacher and technology specialist for Kern County, Calif. showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. Auto Highlightautomatically searches a webpage and highlights what it thinks is the most important content in bright yellow, drawing students’ eyes to that information quickly. Internet Abridged is a summarization extension that sums up any website in a few paragraphs (perfect for long Wikipedia articles, Sneed said). Comments are closed.
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