CViConnect vs Practice2Master Fractions

Who is the app for? CVi Connect is an iPad application intended to support parents, and teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs), who work with children who have Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). The app can be used by parents, TVIs and anyone else who works with children who have CVI. CVi Connect's goal is to aid in the process of improving the visual impairment with this iPad application, and grow the awareness of CVI as a whole and provide educational content related to CVI. What does it do? The application guides the user through exercises of varying difficulty that are intended to help the child's eye focus on graphics on the screen, which stimulates the area of the brain that is most affected by CVI. By stimulating this area of the brain we can support the improvement of the child's vision. Over time the exercises are tailored to each child based on the data that is collected while the child and parent use the application. How does it work? Using the front-facing camera in the iPad the application can measure facts about how the child is responding to the exercises. All of these expertly-determined facts can then be graphed and analyzed by the educator, in whole or in part, across all training sessions. For example, it is possible to graph the time spent, on average, on training sessions combined with the number of times a sprite is touched, showing ways of measuring improvement in visual acuity as well as allowing a teacher to tailor future lesson plans to better match the needs of the student. In addition to analyzing favorite and least favorite lessons, the CVI system has the ability to use information from the training sessions to automatically generate new training sessions that are best for the student. As an example, the system can detect highly touched areas of the iPad and where sprites are commonly touched. Using this information, the system can automatically generate new lesson plans that focus the attention specifically on these areas as well as specifically AWAY from these areas to improve acuity. The system can use facts about the lengths of time spent on average by the user on training sessions to tailor the length of time a typical training session should take place. Where can I get help if I need it? CVi Connect maintains a support forum where users of the app (parents, TVI's and CVI professionals) are supported by leading CVI professionals and CVi Connect technical staff. Users can asks questions and provide feedback in this forum, which adds to the CVi community as a whole by serving as a place where CVI discussions can take place.

Practice makes proficient. Practice2Master Fractions™ is designed to help students become proficient in fraction calculations. It supplements teachers' instruction by providing students with unlimited number of problems to practice. This app is a tool that every elementary school math teacher should have in their teaching toolbox. This app is fully accessible for all users, especially for students with low vision and students who are blind and use VoiceOver™. It allows students to do the following: * perform free practice in fraction addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division and get assistance from the app whenever needed; * take drills on fraction calculations and save drill reports for future reference; * receive lists of calculation problems from teachers or parents via email and send back drill reports; * use machine-generated problems, preloaded problems, and teacher-created problems for practice and drills; and * customize settings to make machine-generated problems suitable for students' level of study. Features * Supports math learning objectives. * Machine-generated calculation problems are highly customizable. * Allows teachers to create and store lists of calculation problems. * Allows students to save problems into a favorite list for future practice. * Exchange problem lists and drill reports between students and teachers. * Large print numbers on iPads and high-contrast colors. * Fully compatible with VoiceOver™ for students with blindness. Watch a demonstration video at: www.aph.org/media/Practice2Master-Fractions-2018-4.mp4 Recommended ages: 9 and up.