Hey Tek-Ninjas! Recently I was in a colleague's office for an Assistive Technology observation, when I was intrigued by some "stuff" on her desk. What, pray tell is this Osmo thing you have here Tamika?
Well, Tamika told me about it, and I was impressed. I thought you all would be interested. It's a wonderful intersection of technology and Occupational Therapy. I asked Tamika if she'd like to blog about Osmo, and lucky for us, she agreed. So, below is a guest blog by a wonderful therapist. Enjoy!
Welcome to the world of Osmo. What is Osmo you ask? It is an attachment and app that you connect
to your iPad. You can connect to a
community of educators and download the teacher guide, which contains a list of
activities with the appropriate grade level, objective, common core standard
and instructions. Content areas for the
start up kit include STEM, Spelling, Handwriting, Reading, and phonics. Math is sold separately.
With the start up kit you get access to the following apps for free:



Words is played
by placing letter tiles in front of the screen to either guess the entire word
or certain letters within a word such as the 1st letter sound. You
can play using the several levels already there, download list from the teacher
guide or you can make your own list of word. You get two sets of letters and
can have two students play against each other. Unfortunately, all of the letter
tiles are capital letters. Other than
that, I think it’s pretty cool!
I have found ways to use the
Osmo with children with all types of needs such as children with visual
impairments, Autism, ADHD, Learning Disability, Developmental delay, etc. All of
my students are loving it. Join the revolution!
Thanks Tamika!
Hamjime!
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