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Supportive technology, or support aids, in the classroom enhances learning and listening skills for every child involved. AIDS such as touch tone computers, voice recognition systems, mobile conveyance devices (i.e., wheelchairs), and strategies for learning are becoming an increasingly important part of today's education programming. Even schools with a less than favorable budget can deploy technology across a school or school system in an affordable and efficient manner. Assisted technology not only provides the student in need with a means whereby he or she can master a learning objective but also provide the student with a meaning learning tool wherein the level of knowledge garnered is demonstrated.
One of the most important systems being brought to the attention of educators is known as the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) wherein students with significant diversity with respect different learning needs can access the system and learn the content needed for math, reading, and other substantive subject matters. Especially for those students with disabilities the UDL system provides the student with better accessibility to the subject matter and learning materials. The end result is, of course, having provided the student with a more equitable education to all students. To illustrate how assisted technology can improve and strengthen a student's learning a situation will be reviewed, namely that of a student by the name of Justin Litke who has cerebral palsy, wherein both student and teacher benefited from the technology in the classroom. Particular attention will be given both to the student's needs as well as the responsibilities that are required by the teacher. Knowing that technology and education are now in partnership with each other all teachers and parents must pursue every possibilities to make sure that the education being provided special needs' students are formative, creative, user friendly, and goal oriented. No longer can teachers be fearful of technology and all must pursue the worth of assitive technology in the classroom with fervor, dedication, and interest.
Educational Psychology Abstract: Teaching Left Behind The article "Teaching Left Behind" by Edward J. McElroy, President of the American Federation of Teachers, comes from the 'Teacher to Teacher' section of the www.TeachingK-8.com Website for May of 2005. The main subject of the article is the Federal No Child Left Behind Act. While originally intended to help many children succeed, the implication may be that the Act is also hurting teachers with
Educational Psychology: An Overview The topic of educational psychology, or psychology as it is practiced within a school system, has become increasingly important in recent years as the number of special education demands on school systems and especially public school systems has increased. While educational psychologists tend to work in universities and other research settings rather than in the school system per se, they are continually affected by what is happening
The results showed that 37% of those responding have had "some type of frequent involvement in bullying"; the data showed that 17.5% of those thirty-seven percent of the student population were victims, 11.7% were bullies, and 8.4% were both bullies and victims (bully/victim). Interestingly, and going back to the Handbook of Educational Psychology's view of bullying as acting out ethnocentrism, "minority youth were significantly more likely to be categorized as
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