Assistive and adaptive technologies help people with disabilities perform tasks with greater ease or independence. People with disabilities might use alternate input and output devices to assist them. For example, so who is visually impaired may use certain devices to make the font bigger or even use another sense such as hearing and have an audio device. These technologies can use various devices to help people with certain disabilities by using a different sense. I have seen assistive technologies more use in K-12 school than college in my perspective. I observed that they kept the students in the same class and just gave them accommodations. I liked in our public school system instead of giving them all a certain class to make them feel different than the other students. The challenge I would perceive personally is the pace to work on with this type of technology in the classroom. I understand I would have to go at a different pace for some of these students. But, I would solve that by giving them a desk closer to my table and have individual times to help them understand the material more clearly.
Technology is used everywhere and it helps increase the productivity to accomplish certain goals in the work world. I envision myself using technology in any career field. In the education field, I can definitely use it in the classroom not to only to engage students but to help my organization as an educator with test scores, parent meetings, tutoring, extra curriculum, etc. Specifically, I can use WebQuest for teacher lesson plans and Microsoft office to create my own documents/powerpoints. For my career field, in Physical Therapy I know Microsoft Excel spreadsheets will be used to organize different medications and appointments for my clientele.
The Webquest project was kind of confusing to me in a sense. It was asking me to purchase to publish and I had a hard time making the website. Here is the link below:
https://education.weebly.com/weebly/main.php#/
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Hi courtney! Even if you struggled with the webquest I think you did great. It was confusing to me as well, and then once I understood it became time-consuming, but it was definitely a helpful assignment.
ReplyDeleteAs for adaptive technologies I completely agree with you, I really like when classrooms give students with disabilities maybe additional resources but don't seclude them and make them feel like they're different from everyone else. We have these technologies so they can feel able and it's great.