Meeting the needs of all students

In order to meet the needs of all students a teacher must ensure that students with disabilities receive the same curricular content as their peers without disabilities as is required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA '97).

Identifying lesson topics

In order to meet the needs of all students a teacher must ensure that students with disabilities receive the same curricular content as their peers without disabilities as is required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA '97). As part of the objective with students with IEP, student’s curriculum is the same but the teachers provide the accommodations that may allow a student more time to take a test, or may allow them to be in a small group.

Meeting the need of the student

In order to meet the needs of all students a teacher must ensure that students with disabilities receive the same curricular content as their peers without disabilities as is required by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (IDEA '97).

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. (Jonathon Feinberg). This can be used to by students to enhance vocabulary, use as a group project, to make a graphic designs that promote cognitive development and social interactions. Encourage visual and hands on learning. Nets for Students: Extended Rubric for Grades PK-2 can:  Promote Basic Operations and Concepts, Social, ethical and human issues, Technology Productivity Tools, Technology Communication tools and Technology problem solving and Decision Making Tools.

Disadvantage would be students may take extended time to develop word clouds. Some may need more time to determine which words to use. A teacher would need to specify a time limit and a word count. Advantage is the students are able to view and manipulate onscreen the words and promote literacy through vocabulary.

Kerpoof

Kerpoof is a great site for children to increase their creativity. This site allow users to

·         make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)

·         Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)

·         Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store

·         Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug

·         Tell a story

·         Make a drawing

·         Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

 My granddaughter found it to be exciting and very interesting.  She would like to visit and do birthday cards for the entire family.  We did complete a scary scene with sound, text, pictures and all in its predesigned element.

Users have been identifies as young as 2 years old to as old as 90 years of age.  As a teacher , this can be used to make projects more creative and entertaining. Create storylines in a collaborative group setting and promote the understanding  operation of technology . NETS for students can be applied can be incorporated with this site.  For example  in the extended Rubric for grades PK-2, Basic Operations and concepts where students recognize the major hardware components, know how to select applications, recognize technology as a source of information, learning and entertainment and so on.

Students are rewarded with Koins and can purchase things from the store to incorporate in their game. For its creativity and entertainment I would rate it as a 4 star.

the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating mobile computing devices in the classroom

Many people around the world are the owners of mobile, hand held devices. When thinking of these mobile devices and interworking them into school, the ideas of advantages does not come to mind. The advantages could be as simple as recording a performance or lecture. The audio can be used like e-books, where you are able to read your own books electronically. This will also allow you to help share documents. With the mobile devices it’s also possible to use references like a dictionary, thesaurus, and Wikipedia. Due to advanced technology, the internet is also on most mobile devices allowing you to review notes, study, and quiz yourself. Instead of having your notes and things scattered around it will all be organized inside of the mobile device.  A great disadvantage would be that if the mobile device is lost, all of the information stored on it will be lost as well unless there is a back-up. Another disadvantage is not being able to work the mobile device and the different operations are not being carried out.

Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information

Identifying the computer and how it works along with basic computer terms a student is able to understand the functions and shortcuts. Ex: basic computer terms and understanding the input and output devices.  To use this in the classroom a teacher can demonstrate with labeled pictorials of the computer. Student will become more comfortable when they are more familiar with the device. After retrieving information then the student can decide which storage medium they would like to use to keep the data.  There are many storage mediums available and each can be described and chose to meet the students need Ex:  storage mediums that can be used are the flash drive. The students can save all information for that class on a flash and retrieve when needed.  CD-R can be used to record music or video.