I have really enjoyed using Twitter. I go onto it once or twice a day, and I always find an insightful article or tweet. Between this class, EDF1005, my observations, and Twitter, I'm expanding out into the education world; I've learned about classroom management, helping struggling students, and being observed by administration. The benefits of using Twitter are that there's a lot of teachers on there and that a lot of conversations are happening in the comments to clarify, argue, and defend. I haven't had any issues using Twitter yet because there are a lot of resources and posters are willing to answer questions.
From the Web Design assignment, I learned about what can and what should be on a website, because I hadn't thought about including supplementary work alongside the normal course content. I like the school websites because it is the simplest way for everyone to view the content, but they do take a fair amount of time to create a good resource. However, that is the case for every resource a teacher provides. I should work on my design skills, for I'm rather limited in those, and on putting a wider variety of content on the webpage. For my future job, I really would like to have a very complete and helpful website for students to access, so I will start working towards that.
Assistive technologies are help people work around their challenges, and adaptive technology are special versions of technologies that already exist that people can interactive in different ways with. Assistive technologies can help a wider range of people, while adaptive technologies are more specifically designed for people with disabilities. These technologies help individuals work and interact with the world by supporting their needs. For example, dyslexic individuals can use text-to-speech converters, scanning software (which stores pages of text and transfers them to sound), and more. My brother used assistive hand grips when he was younger to help improve his handwriting, and one of the members in my sorority uses a text-to-speech converter to listen to textbooks. The main problem with adaptive technologies in the classroom seems to be that few are available to teachers and teachers are not trained on how to support their students. Teachers should be able to support their students' needs in as many ways as possible, and that includes in learning disabilities and impairments. With speech-to-text converters and text-to-speech converters, a quiet area in the classroom is needed; students must also not be ostracized for their use of these technologies to help them, so a welcoming and understanding classroom environment must be cultivated. This can be done by demonstrating how the technologies work, allowing students with disabilities to speak about them if they wish, and maybe allowing the abled students to try out the technology.
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From the Web Design assignment, I learned about what can and what should be on a website, because I hadn't thought about including supplementary work alongside the normal course content. I like the school websites because it is the simplest way for everyone to view the content, but they do take a fair amount of time to create a good resource. However, that is the case for every resource a teacher provides. I should work on my design skills, for I'm rather limited in those, and on putting a wider variety of content on the webpage. For my future job, I really would like to have a very complete and helpful website for students to access, so I will start working towards that.
Assistive technologies are help people work around their challenges, and adaptive technology are special versions of technologies that already exist that people can interactive in different ways with. Assistive technologies can help a wider range of people, while adaptive technologies are more specifically designed for people with disabilities. These technologies help individuals work and interact with the world by supporting their needs. For example, dyslexic individuals can use text-to-speech converters, scanning software (which stores pages of text and transfers them to sound), and more. My brother used assistive hand grips when he was younger to help improve his handwriting, and one of the members in my sorority uses a text-to-speech converter to listen to textbooks. The main problem with adaptive technologies in the classroom seems to be that few are available to teachers and teachers are not trained on how to support their students. Teachers should be able to support their students' needs in as many ways as possible, and that includes in learning disabilities and impairments. With speech-to-text converters and text-to-speech converters, a quiet area in the classroom is needed; students must also not be ostracized for their use of these technologies to help them, so a welcoming and understanding classroom environment must be cultivated. This can be done by demonstrating how the technologies work, allowing students with disabilities to speak about them if they wish, and maybe allowing the abled students to try out the technology.
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