Blog Journal #8
Throughout the Adaptive Technologies Podcast and Ch.4 reading I learned about a multitude of technologies that help support learners. For learners with visual impairments, adaptive technologies can be input devices such as voice recognition softwares or joysticks instead of mouses, or output devices such as magnified screens, softwares that read aloud text, or brail keyboards or printers. There are a multitude of technologies that help support those of varying disabilities. For example, I have a friend who has Parkinson's disease and uses Liftware to consume his meals. This gadget stabilizes the movement of utensils while eating. In terms of challenges perceived while using adaptive technologies in my classroom, I foresee there being issues with technologies that produce noise that could be distracting to other students. A simple solution to this would be the implementation of headphones.
Just like in any aspect of teaching, I plan to use Powerpoint to effectively teach my students and concur learning objectives. After examining Bloom's Taxonomy I noticed the various tiers contained the words (from top to bottom) create, evaluate, analyze, apply, understand, and remember. All of which I can apply to various teaching methods in Powerpoint. For example: I will produce original works in powerpoint to make my lessons more personal, I will evaluate my work and justify and explain the information on the slides to my students, I will draw connections between my ideas, I will apply these ideas into real life scenarios, I will make sure my material is being correctly digested and understood by my students, and lastly, I will use a reflection slide to recall facts and concepts to help my students retain information.
Edudemic is a wonderful website to help teachers stay updated on new technologies for innovation in education. I merely selected an article talking about new technologies, but the entire website itself is related to connecting education and technology.
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