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Jo Cadena EDLD5364 Week 5 Assignment 1



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My unit and the lessons it contains provide for much hands-on technology use for all levels and abilities of the students. Given that the appropriate software and technology are present and functioning, the modified lessons and the unit goals can be accomplished by the vision and hearing impaired students, and they can also have a concrete project to present to the rest of the class like everyone else. The teacher will undergo professional development on the basics of Microsoft Publisher. This would include such concepts as cutting, copying, pasting, grouping/ungrouping, rotating, flipping and formatting text and objects. The teacher would also need to be competent to instruct students on the general integration of Publisher with the internet. Students would need to search for and select appropriate graphics and other elements for their activities while practicing being responsible netizens. This includes being selective on content and citing sources for information used to complete projects for this unit and assignment.======

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"Some of the differences in how learning occurs in technology-rich classrooms as contrasted with traditional classrooms may account for consistent findings that technology can be especially effective with at-risk and special needs students." (Pitler, Hubbel, Kuhn, & Malenoski, 2007, p. 3). Being immersed in a computer lab as my classroom, I have seen evidence of this first hand. Students who struggle in core content areas often have little or no difficulty being productive and even excelling at technology-related lessons. It seems that computers provide an even playing field when it comes to learning. At the beginning of the year, I often have difficulty ascertaining who at-risk and special education students are for the most part because they are all so interested and focused to learn with the technology.======