3/1/2023 0 Comments Zentomino itunes![]() Although these are powerful tools, there are much greater personal assistants being developed. Using personal data and GPS location data, mobile assistance can provide smart information and assistance on a whole range of topics, including: dictation, reading emails, texting, making a reminder, calling someone, restaurant reservations, solving math problems, getting the weather, looking up basic information, performing a web search, getting directions and finding alternate routes, real-time and geo-tagged reminders, package tracking, etc. ![]() Google is developing Google Now technology, 2 Apple continues to expand Siri 1 and Microsoft has created Cortana 3. Mobile assistants are becoming more powerful and are being adopted in various forms by all major mobile technology developers. Here are some types of Assistive Technology which are available standard on mobile devices: Intelligent Personal Assistant or Knowledge Navigator ![]() It allows the user to organize and personalize the tools they need as well as the environment that they operate in. Now that is getting personal! For people with learning disabilities (LDs) and possible memory deficits, personalization is key. Long and short term memory is being supplemented, and in some cases replaced, with powerful tools available on our mobile technology. Some of these devices even recognize our faces, fingerprints and our voices. Mobile technology is bridging the gap between the inherent shortcomings of our brain and the tasks we ask of it every day. We store personal information on them, we carry them with us, we use them dozens of times a day. Mobile devices by nature of their design are for personal use. By Michael Kerr, Instructional Leadership Consultant, Special Education, Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board
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