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iPads in class energize kids as teachers test how to use them

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Jan 25 2012

By Kevin Simpson The Denver Post For 10-year-old Kaitlyn Chin, the first few weeks of school came packed with holidaylike anticipation — especially when the fourth-grader at Legacy Academy in Elizabeth saw boxes delivered to the building. "I would always hope they were the iPads," she says. And finally, they arrived — a wave of tablet devices that, combined with other Apple technology, created a schoolwide learning system based largely on the second-generation iPad2. "The first day we could bring them home, I was up all night," recalls Kaitlyn. "I learned so many things, it really shocked me." Well into a first, full year of experimentation, many educators also describe a steep learning curve with their introduction to the popular touch-screen tablet. Students use the $600 devices to read novels, shoot videos, conduct research, hone their writing skills and bring new...

Life with Down syndrome

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Dec 21 2011

Opinion Piece; By Jeremy P. MeyerThe Denver Post The memory from eight years ago is almost as vivid as if it had occurred only seconds ago. My wife was in the recovery room at Penrose Community Hospital in Colorado Springs, having delivered our first child, a daughter who came early and under emergency conditions. Behind drawn curtains in the crowded recovery room, we watched a video I had just shot of our baby in the neonatal intensive care unit when the doctor who performed the delivery nervously approached. Standing just outside the curtain, the doctor changed our lives. "We believe your baby has Down syndrome," she said. "I'm so sorry." The perfect baby we were expecting now was gone. We didn't know much about Down syndrome but soon realized the world was looking at us and our baby differently. Instead of congratulations, we were told, "I'm so sorry." In place of flowers and balloons, the hospital sent a chaplain. We were given outdated material abou...

Autism: Unlocking Mireya Salazar's world

Posted by Nathan Charlan on Apr 28 2011

By Eric GorskiThe Denver Post Posted: 04/24/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT Updated: 04/24/2011 03:12:51 PM MDT Her name is Mireya. She is 3 years and 3 months old. She has fine black hair, a thing for "Handy Manny" cartoons and one of the most prominent last names in Colorado. Many nights, Mireya Salazar will not fall asleep unless her feet are touching her mother and her head is touching her grandmother. It's part of an elaborate bedtime ritual in which she must place her pillow with the pink checkerboard and butterfly pattern just so, in the middle of the bed. She has other routines, other rules. Every door in the house must be closed. If they are not, she will slam them shut. She won't eat a broken Cheerio or pasta that is not white. She can seem more interested in a pink balloon than in her father, more fascinated with a blank space in the distance than in "Papa Ken" — her grandfather,...

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