The use of technology to help students with special needs has been very effective. This article points out the advantages of the use of technology to help all types of students.  

I found very interesting the different technologies that are used by students that have a major disability such as hearing impairment or visual impairments. Such devices include:

-Hearing aids

-cochlear plants

- FM

- Touch sensitive screens

- briale note takers

- DVS.

And so many other devices which can be seen on the hyperlink attached.

Reference:

“Ted S. Hasselbring Candyce H.Williams Glaser (2000) Use of Computer Technology to Help Students with Special Needs : The Future of Children Children and computer technology Vol. 10 • No 1

I was browsing the net and i came across this draft of an article that i had found interesting.

The wide world web could be used for the following when dealing with k-12 education:

- Home schooling

- Alternative schooling

- Extension resource

The web can provide enhanced learning to the students by:

-Web Appeals to Students’ Learning Mode

-Web Provides for Flexible Learning

-Web Enables New Kinds of Learning

The web contributes to teaching and student learning as it increases access to education, promotes improved learning and is cost effective when used properly.

Reference:

Ronald D. Owston Educational Researcher, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Mar., 1997), pp. 27-33 (article consists of 7 pages) American Educational Research Association”HYPERLINK “A Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning? Ronald D. Owston Educational Researcher, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Mar., 1997), pp. 27-33 (article consists of 7 pages) American Educational Research Association”T

I read this interesting article on Meaningful learning with technology. A few interesting points came about while reading this reading.

Learning is the understanding of and effort invested in completing a task or an activity. The task that students pursue should engage active, constructive, intentional, authentic, and cooperative activities.

Technologies afford students the opportunities to engage in meaningful learning when they learn with the technology, not from it.

Technology consists also of the designs and the environments that engage learners.

Learners and technologies should be intellectual partners, where the cognitive responsibility for performance is distributed by the part of the partnership that performs it better.

Technologies should be used as engagers and facilitators of thinking.

Meaningful learning will ‘result when technologies engage learners in the following:

Knowledge construction, not reproduction

Conversation, not reception

Articulation, not repetition

Collaboration, not competition

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Reference:

Jonassen, D., et al. 2008, Meaningful Learning with Technology, 3rd edn,Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, pp.1-12.

Introduction

These are a few things about my life

• UTS student in the Kuringai Campus doing bteaching
• Was USYD student doing Bmedsci
• Worked for an educational institute for 4 years where analysis of the NSW mathematics syllabus for 7-12 was done
• love maths and science

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