Journal #8

     Adaptive technologies have made enhancements in modern day classroom to meet the needs of multiple different learning styles. The technology aims to make coursework and curriculum met the needs of individual students and the different learning disabilities they may possess. Many technologies work to track a students progress to show which areas they are proficient in, and where they need more help.  Adaptive technology is more specific than assistive technology because it works with an existing technology to help disabled students use the technology. In my classroom experience I have had peers that required captioning to be put on videos displayed to the class to help counteract their hearing disability. I believe that these technologies are extremely beneficial within a classroom to help meet students needs, and are easier to adapt widely used technologies to struggling students. I do expect though it to be challenging to acquire all the additional pieces of needed to meet the needs of all students.
   
      PowerPoint would be an effective way to help students at all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. The presentation would need to be structured to help a student remember, comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the main ideas of a lesson. To help a student remember the PowerPoint should make an effort to highlight or bold important terms or concepts, so that way students recognize their importance on the slide and are more likely to remember. To make sure students comprehend the lesson the lesson the presentation should have a slide asking for students to compare different ideas. This will make sure that students understand both concepts individually and in relation to another. To help the students apply their knowledge the presentation by showing specific problems and examples. A slide could feature an issue and first ask for students responses, and then the next slide could feature an explanation on how to get the solution. The PowerPoint should also help students analyze the concepts by into specific lists and showing the relationships. The lesson can be synthesized in the PowerPoint by adding a slide which putting all of the part of the lesson together into one main point. The lesson can finally be evaluated by showing the validity of the work. and giving specific reasoning as to why the lesson is correct.

     

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