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As I watched the iPad fly through the air, there was an initial shock. After all, it’s almost $500 of glass, aluminum, and silicone wrapped in rubber and plastic.
The rubber and plastic did it’s job: there were no pieces to pick up. However, there were pieces of what I was doing that needed to be put back together.
As I have written about in the past, technology is at the forefront of many things I do. I support elementary aged children who are non-verbal or minimally verbal. Some of them use speech generating devices to help let the world know what they want or need. Without this technology, there would still be options, but less robust. And less able to be heard across a noisy classroom.
A place for everything and everything in it’s place…
In an episode of the ultimate technological advancement show from my childhood, Rosie (the household robot) in The Jetsons goes on a cleaning rampage in one episide repeating “A place for everything, and everything in it’s place…”
As I pick up the iPad and speak in calm tones to a clearly upset student, I start putting the pieces of my lesson back together. A place…
