apps to support executive functions karen janowski [email protected]
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Executive Function (EF)
involves activating, orchestrating, monitoring, evaluating and adapting different strategies to
accomplish different tasks.
Plan
Plan
Strategize
Plan B
Reflect
Guiding Principles
Teach Strategies
Mistake tolerant
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/285112924/
Reduce cognitive overload
Paperless
What Does that Look like?
Promote Independence
Flexible, Easy to Use
Reduce learned helplessness
Think – alternatives to paper!
(Assignment notebook)Fotobabble – online and app
Use camera
HW online proactively
OrganizationTools
Productivity apps
myHomework,
iHomework,
Class Organizer,
InClass,
ToDoDo, etc.
Tools
Writing Tools
Bypass writing challenges
Paperport Notes
Dragon Dictation
Sound Notes
VoiceThread
Writing Tools
Organizing writing
Popplet Lite
Inspiration
Reading Tools
Speak Selection feature
Readability feature in Safari
Read2Go – Bookshare app
Reading Tools
Tricks:
Add website to home screen
Tarheel Reader
Shmoop
Study Skills Tools
Flash Card apps (Quizlet online)
iBooks (Active Reading strategies)
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Lighthouse - http://www.flickr.com/photos/cmichel67/3899744510
Mistake - http://www.getentrepreneurial.com/images/franchise-mistakes.jpg
Neon Head - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dierkschaefer/2961565820/
Wastebasket - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wastebasket&l=4&z=e
Student against wall - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aegishjalmur/2288932018
Chessboard - http://www.flickr.com/photos/pshan427/2331162310/Plan B http://www.flickr.com/photos/mringlein/1403246089/
Large Chessboard http://www.flickr.com/photos/rusworks/84248875/
Watches http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyn/312870142/
Start button - http://www.123rf.com/photo_3995846_start-button-over-white-concept-of-begin-go-initiate-etc.html
Shift - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/04/idsa_northeast_district_c.html Disorganization - http://bit.ly/eYtsMG