blog post 13

After watching/ reading the links below summarize why technology is important in each link.


Integrating technology in the special education classroom


This article talks about how technology is great for the special education classroom because there are so many different children with different, yet, specific needs, and technology can help each individual student in their own way. It’s more common to think of using technology to help those students who are blind or deaf, but technology is also good for those with learning disabilities. For example, for students that need help in reading, there is read- along- books that can help the students learn to read. Using technology in the special education classroom can give teachers more one- on- one time with the students. All student love using technology and these students are no different. Technology gives them the motivation to want to learn.





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In this article, they talk about how teachers can work with students better as a whole because they can use things such as clickers. This method allows the kids to answer the questions at the same time, allowing the teacher to instantly know if each student understood the information. Also, technology levels the playing field with all the students, thus making the students with disabilities feel more accepted among their peers. Because students with learning disabilities already feel like they are different from other students, technology gives them the confidence to know that they can be just like the other kids.




Ipads for children with disabilities

In this video, this special education teacher talks about how iPads has changed her classroom. Students with disabilities have a difficult time wanting to think and work that hard, but when you make it fun, they won’t look at it as being something they have to learn, but something they want to learn. Ipads do exactly that, they help children with learning disabilities want to learn in a fun and new way.