EME 2040 Blog

A paragraph about how adaptive technologies are used to support learners.  Have you or anyone you have known used such technologies? A paragraph about the challenges of using adaptive technologies in the classroom. Teachers are tasked with being the driving force of technology innovation in education -- which is directly related to teacher professional development.   Post a screen shot, link, and description  of one site you could use to stay informed of technology trends. Adaptive technology is used to support different styles of learning. This can mean those with disabilities, or those with special learning needs. This can mean a program that reads text out loud, either for those with sight impairments, dyslexia, or other reading problems. It can mean a program that, in the opposite way, adds captions to videos or other audio things for those with hearing disabilities. In contrast to Assistive technology, adaptive tech is usually just a version of an e...

The first PLN tool I see as extremely useful to teachers is Pinterest. Pinterest is easy to use, easy to create separate clusters of organization, and offers lots of group thinking with the social media feature. People can add comments or tags as they Repin things to their own boards. There's anything teacher related on their, from tips for decorating a classroom to actual worksheet printouts and lesson plans. https://www.pinterest.com/ The Teaching Channel is a second tool teachers can use. I've used this in my Intro to Education class to learn how best to observe teachers when I go into classrooms. There are videos breaking down different teaching styles and how those work for different students. It's a very literal way of teaching people the social interaction parts of teaching. https://www.teachingchannel.org/

Twitter has taught me that there are a lot of easy to access resources at my fingertips. It's easy to tag people with the intent of getting quick and easy answers (hello, my SOS at the teacher during my Weebly process. False alarm, by the way). It's also easy to organize your own Tweets, or quickly access information relevant to your interests thank to the Twitter specialty, hashtags. My only issue is my lack of inspiration to Tweet stuff, and the fact that I never used it before this class, so it really isn't a prevalent  part of my day to day social media routine. I don't remember to use it, so all of my Tweets feel a little forced to me.  Hoooo weeee, Weebly. I fought with this assignment so much. The website would largely just go unresponsive. The design aspects are not very intuitive, and I found that moving things around was way harder than it should have been. This was interesting to me, however, because the technical stuff was pretty easy for me. Beyond the...