Blog Post 8
There is a large variety of adaptive technologies available for the used of teachers, educators, workplaces, and other places where they would be helpful with dealing with people who have disabilities; in this case, students. Some examples of adaptive technologies available in schools are Digital recording softwares for recording lessons, which are helpful for students with learning disabilities, Zoomtext keyboards for the visually impaired, and Smartnav, for more physically impaired individuals. As discussed in the chapter and the podcast, these different adaptive technologies can be used to assist students by making their complications less debilitating in the classroom, maximizing their potential to learn for conforming to their specific disabilities, and providing them with the best opportunities to succeed. By law, it is required to accommodate people with disabilities, however, as educators, we want each and every student to succeed, regardless of the conditions. So by having these various adaptive technologies adaptive to utilize, we can ensure that each and every student has the chance at a solid education, and hopefully making their lives a little easier in the process.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to represent the different domains of learning; creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering. Through Microsoft PowerPoint, there are many ways to support the learning at each of these six levels. Say that as an educator, I assigned a project to my class that had a variety of requirements, each pertaining to a level of learning from Bloom's Taxonomy. For creating, one aspect would be that each student must create their own unique theme that related to the topic that the project is on, and then using their new theme to create the educational or informational presentation on the given topic. For evaluating, I would have the students peer review each other's presentations, giving them time to make comments, suggestions, and notes on the creativity of the theme, as well as the context of the presentation. Then, for analyzing, we could come together as a class, go over the suggestions that each student received. For applying, as the teacher, I could use the information we gathered during the analyzing step to make a PowerPoint using the context and suggestions from various presentations in the class to make one large topic presentation, applying the suggestions we agreed on as a class to make the new presentation. I would use this new combined presentation to ensure the students understood the creative process of making the theme and presentation, the process of peer reviewing, and why the suggestions helped the overall presentation better. As for the remembering, I would bring the class together again o make a review slide at the end of the presentation, where we could come up with a way to remember the basic necessities for creating and effective and creative presentation, such as an acronym.
Campus Technology is a great source for educators to be able to access a plethora of information and resources that related to the use of technology in the classroom. A specific article that they have is called "11 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2017," where higher education professionals post examples, reviews, and recommendations of various technologies that are extremely popular and useful in classroom settings. Articles like this, which are reliable, current, and convenient, are a great way to teachers to keep up with the changing trends and constantly updating technology in modern education.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to represent the different domains of learning; creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, and remembering. Through Microsoft PowerPoint, there are many ways to support the learning at each of these six levels. Say that as an educator, I assigned a project to my class that had a variety of requirements, each pertaining to a level of learning from Bloom's Taxonomy. For creating, one aspect would be that each student must create their own unique theme that related to the topic that the project is on, and then using their new theme to create the educational or informational presentation on the given topic. For evaluating, I would have the students peer review each other's presentations, giving them time to make comments, suggestions, and notes on the creativity of the theme, as well as the context of the presentation. Then, for analyzing, we could come together as a class, go over the suggestions that each student received. For applying, as the teacher, I could use the information we gathered during the analyzing step to make a PowerPoint using the context and suggestions from various presentations in the class to make one large topic presentation, applying the suggestions we agreed on as a class to make the new presentation. I would use this new combined presentation to ensure the students understood the creative process of making the theme and presentation, the process of peer reviewing, and why the suggestions helped the overall presentation better. As for the remembering, I would bring the class together again o make a review slide at the end of the presentation, where we could come up with a way to remember the basic necessities for creating and effective and creative presentation, such as an acronym.
Campus Technology is a great source for educators to be able to access a plethora of information and resources that related to the use of technology in the classroom. A specific article that they have is called "11 Ed Tech Trends to Watch in 2017," where higher education professionals post examples, reviews, and recommendations of various technologies that are extremely popular and useful in classroom settings. Articles like this, which are reliable, current, and convenient, are a great way to teachers to keep up with the changing trends and constantly updating technology in modern education.
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