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Technology in the classroom: Integrating technology for diverse learners

Technology in the classroom: Integrating technology for diverse learners. EDU 241: Educational Technology Daniel Moos, PhD. Standards to Guide Your Preparation. Integrating Technology for Diverse Learners. Technology can remove barriers.

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Technology in the classroom: Integrating technology for diverse learners

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  1. Technology in the classroom: Integrating technology for diverse learners EDU 241: Educational Technology Daniel Moos, PhD

  2. Standards to Guide Your Preparation

  3. Integrating Technology for Diverse Learners • Technology can remove barriers. • Technology has come to the forefront in the movement as a tool to meet the needs of all learners. • equal educational opportunities for students of many different ethnic groups, linguistic backgrounds, and social and geographical circumstances (Englert & Zhoa, 2001; Zorfass, 2001) • By removing barriers to learning, technology can provide an avenue for diverse learners to accomplish many difficult tasks independently.

  4. Multiculturalism • Multiculturalism is the perspective that different ethnic groups should preserve their own culture while assimilating with the other cultures within a nation. • Contrasts older perspective a “melting pot,” (identity lost?) • Most likely, your classroom will have students from multiple ethnic groups, for some of whom English may be a second or third language.

  5. Table 15.1: Techniques for Approaching Diversity and Multiculturalism

  6. Integrating Technology for Learners with Disabilities • For learners with disabilities, technology can provide an avenue to accomplish many difficult tasks independently. • Common areas of difficulty for learners with disabilities include: • organization and planning, • Reading and processing • understanding language (print or electronic), • writing and spelling • expressing ideas through language.

  7. What Is Assistive Technology? • According to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004), an assistive technology device is “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.” • IDEA also defines the term assistive technology service as “any service that directly assists an individual with a disability in the selection, acquisition, or use of an assistive technology device.”

  8. Figure 15.4: An Example of High-Tech Assistive Technology

  9. Resources • ePALS Classroom Exchange • http://www.epals.com • Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections (IECC) • http://www.iecc.org • Kids’ Space • http://www.kids-space.org • The Access Center: Improving Outcomes for All Students K–8 • http://www.k8accesscenter.org • The Alliance for Technology Access • http://www.ataccess.org • Assistive Technology Resource Bank • http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/spe/ATRB • Videos of Integrating Assistive Technology into the Classroom • http://coefaculty.valdosta.edu/spe/ATRB/Video_Tips.htm

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