Chapter 10 Promoting Success for All Students through Technology J. Charlene Welsh
Basic Overview This chapter discusses using various technologies within lessons to support the learning of diverse students. Diverse students are students from different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences Multicultural education is affirming the expansive diversity of student interests, needs, and talents present in every school classroom Technology can allow teachers to create learning situations in which students can gain better understandings of students from different cultures, races, languages, and genders
Online Translation Resources Google Translate Translates words, sentences, and webpages between more than 50 different languages. BabelFish A basic online translator that can translate words and phrases between 14 different languages Newspaper Map Uses Google Maps to see the world and choose newspapers to translate into over 40 different languages
Differentiated instruction Creating different learning experiences to meet the different needs of individual students Teachers need to take into consideration the different learning styles of their students Hard to find time and resources to differentiate the instruction while considering the students interests, their learning styles, and the curriculum Universal design for learning An educational framework related to creating learning environments that will be beneficial and can accommodate student learning differences CAST Video to help understand DI and UDL
Tools for universally designed classrooms Tagxedo (need to install Microsoft Silverlight, which is similar to Adobe Flash) Create word clouds Electronic spellers and dictionaries TERC (Technical education research centers) has an online signing dictionary Calculators
Assistive technologies Interactive electronic storybooks Sesame Street Stories Story Place Speech Recognition Software Displays text on a computer from a user’s spoken words Text Reading Software Allows users to hear the computer read written text Screen Reading Software Translates the visual page
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