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| | "Make it Yours" with Apple Accessibility FeaturesiPad and Mac have many great features built in enabling everyone to learn and create in the ways that work best for them. Built in features accommodate users with diverse needs, such as visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive abilities, as well as providing ways for all users to access technology to be productive and creative. This week we share with you some of our favourite features built into Apple devices that can support teaching and learning for teachers and students. Did you know that Apple Support Youtube Channel has short videos to help you with these features? Click on the heading 🔗s below. | |
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| | Read the entire screen or a selection of text. You can also highlight words, sentences — or both — as they’re spoken. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken content. | |
| | Enlarge what’s on screen. Choose full-screen view or picture-in-picture view, which shows the magnified area in a separate window while the rest of the screen stays the same. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom. | |
| | Increase text legibility and visibility
or enhance the display’s colours and contrast on an
app-by-app basis. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size. | |
| | Play calming sounds, such as the
ocean or rain, to improve student focus, mask
unwanted noise and minimise distractions Go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio / Visual
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| | Allow students to express themselves with speech to text. Students can use their voice to dictate text anywhere you can type it. The dictate microphone is located next to the spacebar on the onscreen keyboard. Go to Settings > General > Keyboard. Turn on Enable Dictation. | |
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| | | | Additional Built in Features to Support All Learners
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| | | | With the latest OS students can select text to copy or translate, right from a photo or paused video. | | | |
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| | | | | Do Not Disturb now includes Focus which can be used to help students concentrate on a task. The Focus feature can silence all notifications to keep distractions to a minimum. | | | |
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| | | | | Use the Magnifier App to increase the size of any physical object you point at, such as a text books, novels or even notes on a whiteboard, to make text easier to read. | | | |
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| | | | Safari Reader formats a webpage to show just the relevant text and images. While viewing an article in Reader view you can also adjust the size and font of the text as well as the background colour of the page. Handy way to focus students in on the learning at hand without distractions and in a style that suits their needs. | | | |
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| | | | The Apple Education Community is a one-stop shop for learning and sharing all things Apple in Education. If you are looking to build or refresh your skills on iPad or Mac, as well as the incredible productivity and creativity apps like Keynote, Pages, Numbers, Clips, iMovie & GarageBand - check out the Learning Centre. If you are looking for some ideas and resources shared by other Apple Teachers from across the globe - check out the Forum. Below are some great posts to support with Accessibility. | | | |
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| | Looking for some ideas on how to use GarageBand to make music creation accessible to every learner. Erika and Eoin have started the conversation here. | | | |
| | New Accessibility Features coming soon. Apple introduces new features for cognitive accessibility, along with Live Speech, Personal Voice, and Point and Speak in Magnifier! | | | |
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| | | Numbers is a great app for scaffolding learning and has some amazing in built tools and features to ensure all learners can access content and demonstrate their learning in ways that suit their learning style. There are many examples in the Apple Education Community Forum and Learning Centre just like this ⬇️ | | | |
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| | | | | | Until next week… from the TLC Team 🌻 
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| | | | Tech Learning Collective is a team of passionate Apple Professional Learning Specialists and educators from Queensland who offer professional learning, insights, resources, and valuable tips for transforming learning with technology.
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