Technology Tools to help Students with Their Executive Functioning

Issues Hindie Becker Dershowitz

hindiebdershowitz@gmail.com @Hindiedershowit

Pinterest Learnist

FlipBoard: Executive Functioning @Hindie

Onion Mountain Organization Problem Inventory

Wati.org Organization Tools

Organization Evaluation Tools

Digital Interventions for Documents Disorder

• Free Webinar: • https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MA

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Socrative

Socrative Quiz

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• Part II: The Executive Functions

Preview • Discussion • Strategies • Review

Executive Functions

• Our attention is a relationship between and event and our response to an event

• Our behavior is the result of how we respond to the event

How we pay attention

• Students pay attention differently today then previous generations

Cathy Davis in her book “Now You See It”

Working Definition of Attention

• How we use our attention in our thinking

• How we use our attention in relation to our feelings

• How we use our attention in our actions

College Student Research

• Attention alternates between being engaged and non-engaged

• Student self report via clicker o Reported after they realized not engaged

• More engaged in non lecture activities oDemonstrations, group work, clicker

National Center for Learning

Disabilities “Executive Function

around the Clock”

Executive Functions ● Organization

● Memory

● Planning

● Time Management

● Initiative

Types of Resources/Tools

• Websites • Chrome Apps • Chrome Extensions • IOS Apps • Android Apps

Tools and IEP

● When are Tools IT/ or classroom tools?

● When are Tools BYOT?

● When are Tools Assistive Technology?

UDL Tools

Assistive Technology Tools

Organization • The ability to design and maintain

systems for keeping track of information or materials

● Arranging information, systematizing

moving and sorting information

Organization

Organization

• Student needs to be in control

• Student needs to know how to access information

• Type of learner

Organization

Notetaking Writing

Backpack/Locker Notebook

Studying Homework Classroom Assignments Correct materials for Class

" Orality and Literacy" by Walter Ong

• Humans forget things easily, and the more time passes the more we forget.

• Only 10 percent of an audio lecture may last in memory, but students who take and review their notes can recall about 80% of a lecture

• University of Washington research suggests that physical writing ( chirographic ) activates regions of the brain that involve thinking, language and working memory.

• http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/01/10-note-taking-tips-for-21st-century.html

Handwritten notes vs Typed notes

http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/student-toolkits-2/taking-notes/

Note Taking

Note Taking Tasks

• Listen To Teacher

• Observe/Refer, screen, board, book • Utilize prior knowledge

• Prioritizing what is important

Notetaking

Different Subjects = Different needs • History, Places, people, Time

• Math, Process, steps

• Science, Concepts, diagrams, Terms

• Literature, plot setting Characters,

Note Taking Tasks • Write/type/Draw notes

• Review the notes later

• Organize their notes

• Locate information from notes

• Extract key concepts to help with their

understanding

Notetaking Supports

Prime The Brain

• Teacher Preview • Word Tree/Word Cloud • Pre-Test

o Socrative

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html?submission=e9ef1028956a4495

NoteTaking Tools • Microsoft One Note: Win, IOS , Android • Google Drive • Notability: IOS App • Evernote: Website, IOS and Android • GoodReader: IOS App • NoteSuite: IOS App • PaperNotes: IOS App

Notetaking Options ● Three column notes/Cornell Method ● Concept Maps ● Outline ● Drawing ● Sticky Notes ● Visual Codes ● Camera

Cornell System • A: Cue Column

o Recall Column oWrite after taking notes

• B: Summaries Area o Brief Summary of Notes

• C: Note Taking oWrite Actual Notes

Cue

Col

umn

Note Taking Area 1

Summary and/or reflections

Google Template Use an Existing Templates

Sign in to your Google account When viewing your list of GoogleDocs, choose Create New >

From Template. Use the search box at the top of the page to find templates and

use the links on the left side of the page to narrow your search by category or specific type of Google Doc.

When you find a template you like, click Use This Template. A

copy of the template will move to your list of Google Docs. Modify the template as needed and use it.

Assignment Drop Box http://tammyworcester.com/assignment-dropbox-with-google-form/

Accessible Google Forms

• Read and Write For Google o Free Chrome Extension o Free Vs Premium

Kustom Notes

• Create template in Kustom notes to use on open kustom note app create templates on computer first

http://www.kustomnote.com

Greece Central School District http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/academics.cfm?subpage=478

Adobe Pro

• View and then Tools

• Forms and then Create

• Enable Keyboard

One Note

http://mashable.com/2013/09/25/mind-mapping-tools/

Chirp.io

Open up your Chirp App

Open up the PDF in Notability o Executive Functioning o Handbook for K-12 o Jericho Public Schools

PaperNotes+

Video Not.es

• Web based and Chrome App

Audio Notes • Audio Note app ($4.99 and lite version)

o Take typed or handwritten notes o Audio record within your notes

o IQ Note: IOS • Super Note App: Android and IOS

o Android and IOS • You Note: IOS • Say & Go: IOS • Voice Recorder Pro: IOS • Voice Note: Chrome App

Visual Notetaking

• “The Art of Explanation making your ideas products, and services easier to understand” by Lee Lefever

• “Blah, Blah, Blah, What to do When

Words Don’t Work” by Dan Roam

Pros and Cons

Paperless Organization

• Google Drive ● Dropbox ● iDrive ● Edmodo ● Email

Paperless Organization Tools

● Notability ● GoodReader ● Evernote ● NoteSuite ● Penultimate

Wirelessly Share Files

• Air Drop: IOS • Flick: IOS, Mac, Android and Windows • Chirp: IOS and Android • InstaShare: IOS, Mac, Android, soon

Windows

Evernote

• Notebooks • Notes oChecklist oAttach file o Tag oAudio oWebClips

Evernote Tools

• Web Clipper • Skitch: annotate, draw • Peek: Study • Kustom Note • Textever Pro: Take Evernote notes on fly • Swift Key: Word Prediction for notes • Post Ever: Post text and/or pictures • Live Minutes: Collaborate

Homework

Executive Functions

● Organization ● Memory ● Time Management

Homework

• What has worked with your students? • What has not worked?

Homework

• Assignment? • Purposeful? • Capable? • Relevant?

Homework

• Legible to student and to parent • Materials • Not Loose homework • Next Day and Next month • Routine Assignments

Homework

● Planners ● Calendars ● To Do Lists ● Sticky Notes ● Student’s Memory

Web Based & Mobile Planners

SquareLeaf: Web Skoach: Web Heap Note: Web and Chrome app My Study Life : Web, Chrome, IOS, Android Studiez: Mac, Iphone, iPad My Homework: IOS, Android, Windows, Web iHomework for iPhone Erudio: IOS

Skoach.com

SquareLeaf

http://www.squareleaf.net/notepad

My Study Life

iStudiez

My Homework

Erudio

Google Student Planner

Pocket Mod

• Click on Create Pocket Mod

Pros and Cons

Calendars

● Outlook ● Google Calendar ● Yahoo Calendar ● IOS Calendar

How to create Google Calendar reminders

How to create Google Calendar Reminders

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1oeLmGJ5EZOJjEWgzqIG_EqXxs4MNoibyJ7wZCWFg1d8

Mobile Calendars

• IOS Calendar o Integrates with Reminders o Mobile and iCloud

• Readdle’s Calendar 5 o Sync with IOS or Google

Pros and Cons

Memory

How do you remember? • Visual • Auditory • Kinesthetic • Work with a peer

Memory

● Short Time Memory: holds on average 7 bits of information

● Auditory and Visual Memory

Memory

• Active Working memory ● Long Term Memory

Memory

• Preview and Review • Relationship stories • Motivation/incentive to remember

http://chibird.com/search/procrastination

Reminders Web Based • ToDoist Next: Web, IOS, Chrome,Android,

Mac • AnyDo: IOS, Chrome App and Extention • Google Keep for Chrome App • WunderList: Web, IOS, Android, Chrome,

Mac • Google Calendar • Remember the Milk • Weave • Productiv: Web, IOS, Android, Mac

ToDoist

• https://en.todoist.com

WunderList

• https://www.wunderlist.com

Remember the Milk

• http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

Producteev

Mobile Time Management

• Awesome Note+ To-do/Calendar/Reminder synch to evernote or google

• Reminders • Alert Notes • Dooo • Gettodo • SteerList • GQueues- Manage Tasks sync with Google. IOS

and Android also

Mobile Time Management

• Bug Me! Stickies Pro: Android, IOS • Producteev: Web, Android, IOS • StickyBoard 2: IOS Ipad • Beep Me: IOS • Shifu: Android • Studious:Android

Pros and Cons

Writing Tools ● Preview of the Work ● Models ● Brainstorming ● Outlines ● StickyNotes ● Rubrics ● Expectations ● Review

Writing

• Text to Speech Supports • Word Prediction • Grammar/Spelling Supports • Voice Recognition

Ginger Software Free, Basic and Premium

Brainstorming/Mind Maps

Google Draw: Web Read Write and Think Timeline: Web and

IOS and Android Magical Pad: Mac and iPad Inspiration: Windows, Mac, IOS, MindMeister: Web, IOS and Android Lucidchart: Chrome app, Android Bubbl.us Web

Google Draw

Google Draw App

Read Write and Think Timeline

• http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/games-tools/timeline-a-30246.html

LucidChart

• Chrome App

Bubble.us • https://bubbl.us/

Pros and Cons

Studying

• Organization • Attention • Memory • Planning • Time Management

Studying Tools ● Online Flashcards ● Evernote ● Timers ● Sticky Notes ● To Do Lists ● Calendars ● Planners ● Visuals

Flashcards

• Chegg: IOS • Evernote Peek: iPad • StudyBlue: Android, IOS, Online • Card Kiwi: Webbased

StudyBlue • http://www.studyblue.com/

Card Kiwi

http://cardkiwi.com/

Studying Tools

• Exam Time: Web • Classmint.com: Web • Data Notebook for iPad • OutLines Outloud: IOS • KaHards: Website, IOS, Android • Word: Outlines

Exam Time

Classmint.com

Outlines Outloud

Kahrds

Word • View tab

oOutline • Click on Levels • Type and add sublevels • Double Click to hide sublevels

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/10/a-must-see-poster-on-study-habits.html

Pros and Cons

Time Management

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/09/a-nice-comic-featuring-12-types-of.html

Procrastination Tools

• Self Control: Mac • Cold Turkey: Web download • Productivity Owl: Chrome Extension • Rescue Time: Web • I am Studying: Chrome Extension • TimeStats: Chrome Extension

Productivity Owl

• Present on every page • Allows only specified • amount on each page

Rescue Time

I Am Studying Blocker

Time Stats

Pomodoro Technique

• Tomatoes: Web and Chrome • PomLife Lite for Android • IOS Clock • 30/30 IOS and Android • Google Timer

Tomatoes

• http://tomato.es/

Google Timer

Online Stop Watch

Pros and Cons

BookMark Options Live Binder Learn.ist Diigo BookMarks Tagger FlipBoard Evernote Pocket Symbaloo

Print

• Chrome Apps/ Extentions o Print Friendly oClearly: Firefox and Chrome o iReader

• Website o Printwhatyoulike.com

Resources ● http://www.pinterest.com/hindie/executive-

function ● FlipBoard: Hindie: Executive Function ● http://learni.st/users/5997/boards/42494-technology-tools-for-students-with-executive-functioning-issues

● Sparks, David. Paperless. 1.3.2013 eBook ● Provenzano, Nicholas .The Nerdy Teacher Presents:

The Beginner’s Guide to Using Evernote on the iPad. 2011. eBook . TheNerdyTeacher.com

● Doherty, David.Beyond the Paperless Classroom. 11.2012. eBook

Questions

Thank you

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