I did not expect to learn about the existence of so many both high tech and low tech ways to assist in the instruction of special needs children. I think I expected to only learn about fancy technologies, such as Kurzweil or Livescribe. When I completed the Boardmaker activity, I realized that technology can be very helpful, but it is not necessarily a replacement for simple, effective activities such as a matching game.
As I move ahead with my career, I will take with me a better understanding of how to design curriculum that is accessible to special needs children. I hope that by thinking about these issues, exploring technologies, and creating lessons, I’ve internalized a general idea of how curriculum needs to be modified in order to reach more children.
In general, I’m glad this class did not focus simply on theory. I’m glad that we combined theory with the learning of actual technologies. Although learning technical information is often a challenge for people with a liberal arts background (which many teachers possess), I think that ignoring this challenge is a mistake made by too many technology-related classes at Teachers College. Thank you.
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