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Bibliography

Maloy, R., Edwards, S., Woolf, B., & Verock, R. (2011). Transforming Learnig with New Technologies. Upper Saddler River, NJ: Perason Education.

 

 

Digital Badge H: Chapter 9

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Digital Badge # G: Chapter 10

Multicultural education in the 21^st century- In today’s schools ethnicity, race, religion and many other factors challenge teachers to provide an equal learning environment for everyone. Also, kids with disabilities need to be provided with opportunities and practices that include them in the curriculum. To ensure that every child sees themselves reflected in today’s curriculum cultural differences should be respected, discrimination based on race, sex, religion or sexual orientation should not be tolerated and school material should be reflective of the schools population. Half of the students in school are white, 22% are Hispanic, 15% African American, 4% are Asian and 1% are native American this makes for today’s multicultural education.

Adaptations for classrooms learning with technology- adaptation accommodations can be classify in three; low-tech accommodations are made easily and don’t cost much. Low tech accommodations can be providing chairs that are adjustable, providing left handed scissors and materials that students can use in the classroom without technology use. Mid-tech accommodations are changes in the curriculum and organization of the classroom and they may include digital material. Some examples are the tracing letters for autistic kids or the texture boxes, audio recordings and magnification software to see well. High-tech accommodations use computers and specialized information technologies for the classrooms. Some examples are interactive read out-loud books, walkers for disable students; motorize wheelchairs for students that have muscle dystrophy and whiteboard with interactive lessons that allow for enlarging text.

 Writing transformations with technologies- for every class students have to write and when they graduate college requires even more writing. Students don’t enjoy writing at school due to many factors; pressure to spell and write right, lack of confidence in what they are writing, lack of enjoyment in writing, lack of patience (this I see myself reflected on) to concentrate in one task without getting distracted, all of these and many more are the reasons student fail at writing in schools. To bypass these setbacks teachers have develop a system that we use today and it is; we brainstorm, draft, revise and edit a document before we publish it. Technology in today’s world allows us to approach writing easier and more enjoyable. Writing tools help students throughout the writing process so they don’t disengage and loose interest half way down the road. Microsoft word check spells, blogs make it fun to publish, brainstorming is easy when guidelines are provided and many more sources that facilitate writing.

Resources:
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.

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Resources:
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.