{"id":6187,"date":"2015-10-22T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2017-05-15T15:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T15:39:37","slug":"rachel-kruzel-on-technology-at-augsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/22\/rachel-kruzel-on-technology-at-augsburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Kruzel discusses how technology helps students with disabilities at Augsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rachel Kruzel<\/strong>, head of the Augsburg College CLASS Office\u2019s Groves Technology Lab, recently wrote an article for HigherEd Tech Decisions that discusses how Augsburg is embracing technologies that help students with learning disabilities. In the article, &#8220;How Augsburg College Helps Students\u00a0Disabilities Take Better Notes with Technology,&#8221; Kruzel states that Augsburg has begun offering a software package that helps students record and organize audio of their lectures in lieu of traditional written notes, which can be difficult for students with dyslexia or ADHD.<\/p>\n<p>Kruzel shares that about 5\u00a0percent of students at Augsburg have some type of learning disability. She hopes that this technology will help students perform at a level that more accurately reflects their capacity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These students\u2019 level of intelligence may be above average, but because they struggle with the traditional college notetaking format, they may fail to reach their potential,&#8221; she writes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Kruzel, head of the Augsburg College CLASS Office\u2019s Groves Technology Lab, recently wrote an article for HigherEd Tech Decisions that discusses how Augsburg is embracing technologies that help students with learning disabilities. In the article, &#8220;How Augsburg College Helps Students\u00a0Disabilities Take Better Notes with Technology,&#8221; Kruzel states that Augsburg has begun offering a software &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[621,835,3704,3687,2818],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-class","tag-disabilities","tag-rachel-kruzel","tag-staff","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}