Journal Post #8
Adaptive technologies are used in the classroom to help the educational process of exceptional students, by assisting their unique needs. Some exceptional students include physically and mentally disabled, gifted honors students, and linguistically diverse students. Adaptive technology aids disabled students by accommodating to their needs, like a screen reader for a blind student, StickyKeys to help those with motor handicaps, and high-interest low-vocabulary books for the mentally disabled. In terms of helping gifted students, adaptive technology allows them to work at a pace that keeps them learning and focused, as opposed to getting distracted in an average classroom setting. For the linguistically diverse, adaptive technology helps them learn new languages and interpret new cultural material through language learning software like ESL Tower. I have used some of these technologies when I was younger, because I had a speech disability that kept me from speaking in a way that other students could understand. To accommodate me I went to a speech therapist, as well as used text-to-speech software that allowed me to interact with the class even if I couldn't talk. After about a year, I no longer needed the technology, because my speech disability was improved with the therapy offered. Later on, in high school, there was a blind student that need accommodations, too. As such, the school gave her access to a Braille printer and codes to screen-reading software to keep her accelerating with the rest of the class. Some challenges that may arise in my future class from using adaptive technology would be the accessibility to the technology and receiving the proper training. Not all schools have the financial ability to give students adaptive technology or teachers the proper training to implement it effectively. Also, there is the issue of coordinating with the technical staff and assistive technology personnel to help the student when technology goes array.
There are many ways that powerpoint could be used to support student learning at all layers of Bloom's Taxonomy. These layers include remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Power Point could be used to help students remember, by defining key terms, showing useful diagrams, or explaining events in a presentation. When students take notes on the information, it helps them remember it, as it is presented visually, verbally, and recorded. For the next layer, understanding, Power Point slides could be organized in a fashion that groups similar concepts together or by giving a picture in conjunction to text to help students link images and ideas. This improves understanding by helping students link key themes together and then associate these themes with visuals. To aid in students' application abilities a teacher could create a presentation preparing students for a debate or project on a topic. Also a teacher could have students use Power Point to present an argument. This allows students to take their understanding and apply it to a group discussion. In terms of analysis, Power Point offers ways to produce graphs and Venn diagrams. This grants students the ability to take data, analyze it, and express it in a logical fashion or view it and interpret data. A teacher could ask students to evaluate other students presentations or their own, to meet the standard of evaluation. Also, a teacher could have students compare two presentations that they have made. Finally, in creating a teacher could assign students to develop their own Power Point based off of their own research, thus making them apply all the previous concepts into their own presentation. Another creation option may be having students make a presentation for a mock product to a mock company (other students). For example a teacher could create a presentation on advertising to students (remember and understand), and have students do research on a product and present data and facts to the class (applying, analyzing, creating), then the other students give feedback on the presentation (evaluating, analyzing).
The following is a good website to keep you up-to-date on recent technology trends in education. The website offers articles about recent news in. the educational technology field, research and case studies to help teacher implement technology by giving examples, and tutorial on how to use common pieces of technology used in the classroom. The best resource this website give, however, is the monthly newsletter that outlines technology trends and changes that took place in that month.
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/01/18/11-ed-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2017.aspx
There are many ways that powerpoint could be used to support student learning at all layers of Bloom's Taxonomy. These layers include remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Power Point could be used to help students remember, by defining key terms, showing useful diagrams, or explaining events in a presentation. When students take notes on the information, it helps them remember it, as it is presented visually, verbally, and recorded. For the next layer, understanding, Power Point slides could be organized in a fashion that groups similar concepts together or by giving a picture in conjunction to text to help students link images and ideas. This improves understanding by helping students link key themes together and then associate these themes with visuals. To aid in students' application abilities a teacher could create a presentation preparing students for a debate or project on a topic. Also a teacher could have students use Power Point to present an argument. This allows students to take their understanding and apply it to a group discussion. In terms of analysis, Power Point offers ways to produce graphs and Venn diagrams. This grants students the ability to take data, analyze it, and express it in a logical fashion or view it and interpret data. A teacher could ask students to evaluate other students presentations or their own, to meet the standard of evaluation. Also, a teacher could have students compare two presentations that they have made. Finally, in creating a teacher could assign students to develop their own Power Point based off of their own research, thus making them apply all the previous concepts into their own presentation. Another creation option may be having students make a presentation for a mock product to a mock company (other students). For example a teacher could create a presentation on advertising to students (remember and understand), and have students do research on a product and present data and facts to the class (applying, analyzing, creating), then the other students give feedback on the presentation (evaluating, analyzing).
The following is a good website to keep you up-to-date on recent technology trends in education. The website offers articles about recent news in. the educational technology field, research and case studies to help teacher implement technology by giving examples, and tutorial on how to use common pieces of technology used in the classroom. The best resource this website give, however, is the monthly newsletter that outlines technology trends and changes that took place in that month.
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2017/01/18/11-ed-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2017.aspx
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