Adaptive Technologies

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What activities do you think will be helpful in addressing the learning styles of your students?
-As a teacher, being aware of how individuals within your classroom best assimilate and
process knowledge allows you to plan instruction and activities that present information in a
variety of ways to address as many learning styles as possible. In the classroom you will find
students who learn in a variety of ways, with the three most common being visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Understanding the different learning styles for each individual student will help make a more effective teacher.

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How would this type of collaboration help your instruction and benefit your students?
-Any time of collaboration with another professional can be helpful in many ways. Juanita's advice gave Marilyn new ideas to not only benefit the students but also to help the way she prepares her insturction.

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-How is Marilyn using graphic organizers to enhance the lessons? How will the use of graphic organizers help Oscar? One way Marilyn used graphic organizers is when she incorporated whisper reading and allowed the children to fill out their own blank graphic organizer map of the same orgaizer informaion. She also incorporated a sequencing activity for Two Bad Ands.

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-Reflect upon your experiences using the Web to locate information. What difficulties have you encountered that might be addressed by using a WebQuest?
I use the web to locate information on a daily basis. Last week I used the web to show an educational viedo in the classroom I was subing for. I think the Web is a fast, easy way to locate information. A difficulty when using a WebQuest is that the school may not have access to a website to place the pages online. However, WebQuests are a great way to introduce students to a variety of points of view.

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-List and describe three benefits the students gained from being included in Oscar's small group.
Allowing the students to work with Oscar benefited bothe Oscar and the students in many ways. The students worked together to achieve a academic goal. Working with Oscar allowed each student to be including in helping, tutoring, assisting, and general facilitation of each other's learning.
Do you think Oscar's experience would have been as powerful if he would have worked in isolation with Juanita? No because Oscar was not only able to work on social skills but also learned from his peers academically.

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-Describe three ways in which Marilyn's use of technology addresses the needs of her class and allowed all students to participate in the lesson.
The class was abloe to learn about the author and biographical information at the same time. The students participated in the lesson by investigating Eric Carle from a new perspective while learning different writing elements.
The students participated in the lesson by finger painting colored papers with texture on newsprint. The students prepared an imovie.