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Enhancing Success for All Students Through Technology

This chapter explores the integration of various technologies in lesson plans to support the learning needs of diverse students, including those from different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. It emphasizes the importance of multicultural education and how technology can foster understanding among students of various races, languages, and genders. Key concepts include differentiated instruction, universal design for learning, and assistive technologies that cater to individual learning styles, enhancing engagement and accessibility for every student.

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Enhancing Success for All Students Through Technology

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  1. Chapter 10 Promoting Success for All Students through Technology J. Charlene Welsh

  2. Basic Overview • This chapter discusses using various technologies within lessons to support the learning of diverse students. • Diverse students are students from different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences • Multicultural education is affirming the expansive diversity of student interests, needs, and talents present in every school classroom • Technology can allow teachers to create learning situations in which students can gain better understandings of students from different cultures, races, languages, and genders

  3. Online Translation Resources • Google Translate www.translate.google.com • Translates words, sentences, and webpages between more than 50 different languages. • BabelFish www.babelfish.com • A basic online translator that can translate words and phrases between 14 different languages • Newspaper Map www.newspapermap.com • Uses Google Maps to see the world and choose newspapers to translate into over 40 different languages

  4. Differentiated instruction • Creating different learning experiences to meet the different needs of individual students • Teachers need to take into consideration the different learning styles of their students • Hard to find time and resources to differentiate the instruction while considering the students interests, their learning styles, and the curriculum • Universal design for learning • An educational framework related to creating learning environments that will be beneficial and can accommodate student learning differences • CASTwww.cast.org/teachingeverystudent • Video to help understand DI and UDL http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/window.php?src=videos

  5. Tools for universally designed classrooms • Tagxedo www.taxgedo.com(need to install Microsoft Silverlight, which is similar to Adobe Flash) • Create word clouds • Electronic spellers and dictionaries • TERC (Technical education research centers) has an online signing dictionary • http://signsci.terc.edu/index.html • Calculators • http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html • http://web2.0calc.com/

  6. Assistive technologies • Interactive electronic storybooks • Sesame Street Stories http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/free/ • Story Place http://www.storyplace.org/ • Speech Recognition Software • Displays text on a computer from a user’s spoken words • Text Reading Software • Allows users to hear the computer read written text • Screen Reading Software • Translates the visual page

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