Chapter 10

Using technology to teach diverse students is a great idea. Today we live in a world of diversity. I remember when I went to go observe at an elementary school there was a young boy who spoke creole. A lady goes in and helps and teaches him and lets him use and iPad to work on math. I think that him using this technology was getting his attention into learning about math instead of him trying to understand what the teacher was saying and it is a start for him to start learning English threw technology. Also here in the childcare facility I work at the teachers use smart boards and they use a website called star fall and they put it on the smart board and teach the students about the calendar and they are learning the month, date, and year. In this article Meeting the needs of diverse learners through technology a teacher tells us on how she uses technology for her diverse classroom.

A second thing that caught my attention was on adaptation for classroom learning with technology. In the book it mentions about the different technologies a teacher can use. Here at the childcare facility where I work at the teachers use smart boards and they use a website called star fall and they put it on the smart board and teach the students about the calendar and they are learning the month, date, and year. It is really a great way to engage students to learn. There are also audio books students can listen threw in a learning center. They grab the book and listen to a CD player by using headphones.

The third thing that I came across was writing transformations with technology. Students get tired of writing with a pencil. Writing essays with a pencil hurts a students hand. I know when I was in school and I need to write a paragraph or so my hand was tired of writing so much. I think that writing transformations into technology is a great idea. Students will have the ability to use technology to write or publish their ideas in a fast and quicker way. When writing with pencil it can take long and a student might not have enough time to turn in a writing essay and if a student is using a computer it can be even quicker.

In conclusion using technology in the classroom can have a good benefit from it. Whether it is to teach a classroom of diversity teachers where they can get a better knowledge and there can be a lot of helpful skills in the way a teacher can use technology in there classroom. Technology is becoming more popular. Students use it everyday and like I have said why not use it in the classrooms. Having the students to use a computer to write will be much more fun and will have the students more engaged in doing their assignment then just a piece of paper and pencil.

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Maloy, R. W., Verock-O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2017). Transforming learning with new technologies. Boston: Pearson.

Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners Through Technology. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2017, from http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/ed-tech-diverse-learners.shtml

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