This week on Twitter I followed @PBSteachers. They posted an article that discusses how an elementary school targets students with disabilities early on. Some of the strategies they use at this school is to use art and technology as an early intervention to help lessen the dropout rates that seem to occur twice as much more with LD students as opposed to their peers. What I found interesting in this video was when they showed two products from a student one using a computer word processor program, while the other was simply hand written. When the LD student used the computer program his work was on grade level, because many times students with dyslexia tend to take longer to process information when reading and struggle writing information down. Overall, this video shows how computers, iPads, arts and digital audio programs are great tools that allow students to learn at their own pace and succeeding.
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One of the resources that will be very useful from this follower is an article for the Top 10 Technology Blogs for Education. After reading this blog I have already subscribed to many of the blogs on here so I can have more resources that I can use. My favorite two blogs from this top ten are http://blog.web20classroom.org/ where they provide many web2.0 technologies to use in the classroom and http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/.
Very good post! I related to this video because the district that I work for is pushing us (teachers and students) to use technology as much as possible. Technology is definitely part of our life now and we have to use it in any environment possible. It was very inspiring watching all the activities that happen in this special classroom. Sal
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