{"id":2738,"date":"2010-08-11T20:39:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2010-08-11T20:39:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:39:41","slug":"educational_aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"Educational Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the Kindle is my portable reader of choice, one can&#8217;t deny that the iPad is capable of doing some cool fusions of video and text like <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5610497\/ipad-picture-book-offers-first-ever-sign-language-narration?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29\">this children&#8217;s book that includes sign language narration<\/a>. I can imagine parents and teachers using e-books like this to help kids make the connection between signed vocabulary and its written equivalent. Reading comprehension can be a difficult skill for kids with hearing impairments to master and perhaps tablet devices like the iPad can improve those skills.<\/p>\n<p>On a somewhat related note, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2010\/08\/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago.ars\"><i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i> imagined devices very much like the iPad<\/a> way back in the Reagan era. I&#8217;m still waiting for someone to work out the kinks in developing a working warp drive so I can take a vacation on <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Risa\">Risa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=600\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the Kindle is my portable reader of choice, one can&#8217;t deny that the iPad is capable of doing some cool fusions of video and text like this children&#8217;s book that includes sign language narration. I can imagine parents and teachers using e-books like this to help kids make the connection between signed vocabulary <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2738' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-Ia","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}