As a special education teacher, I am constantly learning and improving to better benefit my students. At this moment in time, I teach a self-contained 'Ed' room. In this setting I am often faced with the question 'how do I get students engaged in a continuous manner and how can I give them ownership of their learning'.
You see, most of my students do not see the point of school and would rather be at home engaging in preferred activities. After doing several observations, I have noticed that 100% of my students are encouraged, driven, and excited by electronics such as game systems. I often find myself researching how to involve this type of electronics in my classroom.
Recently I have found a lot of exciting research from Finland and Norway. Several articles from these locations have proven that the Xbox/Kinect system can prove useful in engaging learners. I have seen physically interactive math and language arts activities as well as Minecraft being utilized to encourage engineering and math concepts such as area and perimeter. Research from these locations has also proven that there is a connection from the retention of material to the kinesthetic provided by the Kinect system.
As a young teacher, I am new to the profession, which unfortunately means that this might be financially out of my capability. I have dug deep to locate more information about grants and other opportunities for affordable financing to give my students access to this type of technology. Recently I spoke to several representatives for Microsoft and they all stated that this feedback post is the place to start.
I believe that it would be great to give educators such as myself an opportunity to write a grant or receive affordable pricing to bring this type of technology into the educational setting. This would, without a doubt, give my learners ownership and excitement for their learning. Additionally, it would positively connect the world of gaming to the world of education. So often I think, as a society, we focus on the negative effects but miss those positive moments. This would be a positive moment in my classroom. If I could have the opportunity to take something that my learners are passionate about and connect it to learning.

Thank you for your time and attention to this area of need, it is truly appreciated.

-Sadie

Hello. I have recently been made aware that Microsoft Surface products Have begun shipping with microsoft’s signature secure OS, Windows 10S. This means that only applications from the Microsoft Store can be installed on these devices. I understand that for many years, Microsoft has relied heavily on its partnerships with screen reader manufacturers such as Freedom Scientific and NVDA. However, if Windows 10S is truly going to be the future of Windows OS, the time may be fast approaching for Narrator screen reader to become a fully functioning screen reader, able to be compatible with every native Windows/Microsoft program, as well as certain accessible 3rd party apps, eliminating the need for 3rd party screen readers. I understand that Microsoft does not wish to harm its relationships with 3rd party screen reader manufacturers, so why not only make this a goal for Microsoft manufactured devices? The 3rd party manufacturers such as HP and Dell can continue to have programs like JAWS downloaded onto them without a problem.
Thank you.

Simply, I didn't waste my precious time that I have already wasted and paid over the average cost either and I paid for personally without any support from any organization or support group of any that I qualify to be a member and exceeding the standard of routine process or requirements of all and still am since I handled my basic question? Can I just convert this new pc back to windows 7 and install my chrome browser and apps that I have collected and am familiar and comfortable with using? I am a severe double sided TBI patient with normal cognitive decline and since 2004 with brutal domestic assault that was recorded and multiple incidents prior that was serious and severe and was medically documented injuries and also prosecuted by myself the surviving victim and still no protection and no support that has resulted in positive recovery in independent living or recognized as any achievement and 2014 was start of my challenge to learn and when I learned any new technology and smart phones was advancing rapidly. However my first Twitter person I followed was Bill Gates and updates and his biggest notification and project goal was He couldn't wait to drink/taste human waste. He was successful and I am so dissapointed In this programming of my new pc that I finally was able to get after losing countless devices and trying many that was useless or harmful to my health and life and many were due to factors of my condition and severe TBI patients usually suffer similiar loss or harmful tasks by certain basic activities and isn't any helpful accessibility to them or their quality of life or any future diversity reality for the actual patients or individuals that are involved or included in lives of disabled or affected individuals; however it is unanimously promoted throughout any app or new program that changes and makes prior programs obsolete or no longer able to function with new windows or microsoft edge that I took plenty of pictures and video and it is actual time and tasks that is not needed. Thanks but I took care of this and I am proud of myself JFC and I guess I did learn and retained more knowledge and technical training than I ever hoped or realized. Therefore, please email me and I will be glad to send you copies of info I have and easy accessible. However, please dont waste my time with redundant requests or phone calls that I am so glad I not ever waste time to answer. However, I compliment the disability chat support for actually waiting on my response and reply time, and attempting to contact me and reach out and to adapt and address my concerns or problems I stated I had issues. I don't care for Windows 10 whatsoever since it doesn't include prior Windows version Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or even prior to any those and makes my prior 1994-1996 college courses completed and paid personally by myself and required to receive any graduate diplomas, certificates, degrees, or credentials by Northwestern Technical College as passing with successful required grades or progressed sucessfully. I had to learn computers and not my choice to pursue and worst dreaded task to me then. I had to learn Network info and I had Windows and DOS programs that had to be learned and all work saved on my A drive disk at school and backup was risky since shared computers and viruses was usual daily matters that lost all work and deadlines wasn;t extended any to allow or support students that had to completely redo all or any work or criteria that classes required for completion and satisfactory standards. Hope Microsoft uses this info to continue growth and diversity they do promote and is their truthful goal they hope to acheive for all humans as equally important and disabled I hope also. If not then I hope someone wasted all this time having to read and then sigh' and delete and hope people like me dont get access to these sites or apps that intelligent and majority are involved in and 2019 April and I am tired also since April 2014 and Googleplus too! And yes I was upset that Googleplus ended and files are deleted and yes i was able to download my data; however I hope I get to actually view it very soon also.

Thanks and have a great day!

Jennifer Capps
JFC

ps please ignore any misspelled words or grammar errors I didnt take time to proofread and I havent had keyboard to practice my typing and at least it is my mistakes mostly, unless this new pc has permissions to change words automatically like most phones do now and stupid and tedious repetition that is ridiculuous and even more ridiculois that people have to be ask to perform task ever and no rehabilitation or proper care support recovery therapy will ever ask you to harm your condition worse before you attempt to recover or regain quality of life prior to injury or disease and overcome issues that you would never have been in conflict as normal human in community prior and not involving any experience, education, or training that qualifies professional level knowledge or expertise in field of subjects in society and throughout world as unified nation and third world nations sure will never evolve to progress or exist and shouldn't if this is our future of limited access and forced programs that Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Team strive to accomplish for all and thats opposite of role model and figure I have always admired Bill Gates since I was 8 years old.

Sorry I had to go ahead and give yall that information also.

Thanks and have a great day again!

Jennifer Capps
JFC

Hi, I would like to have a feature where I could give additional time to my child from the Microsoft Family home screen web site, without the need to have my kid request additional time via email.

Also, I would like to have a very granular time assignment possible outside of the predefined time templates (15, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and 8 hours).
Sometime I just want to give 20 minutes, but in the current model this is not possible.

It would also be nice to have the ability to stop any allotted time immediately via web site.

Thank you.