 Choose one of your writing projects. All right, you can write about what you want But it needs to be an interesting and entertaining a beginning Speech-to-text is is very exciting for the students because When things are so laborsome to write down To use their voice and watch it come on the screen. It's very exciting for them And it doesn't take them long to learn that Technique and using it and they can get so much more accomplished using speech-to-text as opposed to Writing and even if I were to scribe for them. It's even faster using speech-to-text a lot of the kids Find writing to be a painful process if you if you're not very good at spelling, but if they can just talk Then the story comes out and they can share their ideas without being limited to Having either typing skills or spelling skills in grade three my Writing would only be like a couple sentences and that would be like an hour of writing It's for the age slots. I would have like maybe four sentences and everybody else would have like two pages Typing is really really really really definitely so I can't go the same speed as my that my brain goes So I just speak and then it types for me whatever I Say it comes up and I could get my work done with the rest of the class Before this technology came in I was the scriber I wrote for the students and they would tell me what to write So I would be using my Punctuation my capitals my editing all through it Whereas when they do the speech-to-text They have to do their own Editing their own punctuation whereas if it was me I was doing all that editing for them Automatically and they never would be learning how to edit all of these programs first of all foster independence and and inclusion because they're there in the class they're doing the exact same thing that everybody else is doing they're working on the same projects and They're simply using a different tool. It has made a huge difference in How much they write and their perception of themselves as being competent and capable Because they know that they can do it. They are able to produce Exciting work Whereas before they were just trying to get it done get it out to whatever it is They weren't really focused on the quality of their work with the computer. I'm more confident because they don't need an EA using better grammar and It's more exciting. It also cuts down on discipline problems in the classroom because a lot of discipline problems are caused by kids who are Causing a distraction so you don't notice that they can't do the work and Everybody can do the work Everybody has a way of getting to do the work and they just get to work Well, my advice to any teacher would be not to be afraid of it. The planning is I book the laptops for my class Which I would have to do anyway. It's just a scheduling problem and then once I have them everybody gets their laptop and They open the tools that they want to use and That will work for whatever the assignment is Well, the kids are the winners, but I feel really lucky that we have these here It really it hasn't made my job any harder. It's made it easier. The kids are more independent discipline problems are down and The kids feel great about themselves It's a win-win situation for everybody