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The free iAdvocate app from Syracuse University ( announced today ) may just be the future of learning and helping parents advocate for their children with learning disabilities. If not, it is certainly the future of successful, useful grants to universities. What could be more useful than releasing free apps to help learning? It reminds me of the math app I blogged about a while back that is being given free by mobile carriers in Denmark to improve math scores. The way to improvement may just be through our hand(helds.) Related articles Math Apps on Mobile Phones Free to Students in Denmark for 2011 (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) The Case for Digital Citizenship in Schools (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) Friends & Family (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) A Lesson in Simple Augmented Reality (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com) 5 Wonderful Ways to Be Weird (coolcatteacher.blogspot.com)

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a simulpost with TechLearning Yesterday at the Rotary Club I sat there with tears in my eyes listening to my sixth grader win an essay contest. Only I and a few others knew that only three years earlier he could barely compose a legible paragraph. It was third grade and my son suddenly went from a high achieving, well behaved child to one who was struggling emotionally and mentally with the tasks at hand. I knew something was wrong. Children don't just change behavior like that. I have a sister with a learning challenge (we don't call them disabilities in our family) and knew that he was coming up against something that he could not overcome. The public school said his test scores were too high for them to test so we eliminated our family vacation between his third and fourth grade year and went to the incredible icon of testing in our area, the Atlanta Speech School. While I won't ...