Blog Journal 8

Adaptive technologies are technologies that adapt to the student with a disability. For example, this could mean closed captioning for those who are hard of hearing, or screen magnifiers for those who are vision-impaired. My dad, with his old age, has had a harder time hearing the television. Due to this, and because the rest of us were tired of having the volume stuck at level 50, we decided to put the closed captions on when he's watching TV. In the classroom, some challenges might include not knowing how to or have the resources to accommodate for all of the children's needs. 

 At the first level of Bloom's Taxonomy, "remembering", you could use Powerpoint to help students recall definitions of vocabulary words, say for an English class. An example for the second level, "understanding", would be having bullet points and notes on the screen so students can take notes. Next, "applying" and Powerpoint, would be using it as a blog. "Analyzing" would include using Powerpoint to give a test, or a practice exam to students. The next level, "evaluating" would require using PPT as a way to take a class survey. Finally, "creating" would use it to formulate new ideas, like giving students prompts writing essays. 

 In order to keep in touch with technology trends in schools, teachers can use this website, founded by the ISTE (who gave us the standards) to follow "hot" trends in educational technology. Some of these trends include watching how virtual reality is used in the classroom.

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