Issues+in+Educational+Technology+CA

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Higher order thinking is when there is complexity to problems. It is not just questions like what is 2+2, or for example a graph of colors and student has to look at it and count all of the yellow marks. the tasks previously stated do not take much thinking at all. Higher order thinking can be supported by games, puzzles, and/or critical thinking that incorporate challenges to the students. = =

In the website http://www.ourcourts.org/flashgames/1/index.html students are required to sit in on a court case and listen to all of the evidence about the case. At the end of of the court case the student has to make a decision whether the suspect is innocent or guilty based on the evidence. This requires higher order thinking because the answer is not just spelled out for the student. The student has to think about the data and make a decision.

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Technology can be used in many ways to affirm diversity. you can use web quests to explore different cultures and regions of the world. Also some schools have assisted technology to help kids with disabilities be more adequate in the classroom. There are programs that will help kids type papers if they have learning disabilities and things that can help kids talk if they cannot. This way they do not have to be excluded from the activities that all of the other students are participating in. Technology is only bring students closer together in the classroom.

=__Using Technology To Support All Learners__=

Technology is used to address students with special needs in a few different ways. One way that technology supports all learners is that if a student has a disability and cannot read because of it, then there is software that makes it able for a student to hear whatever text that is on the screen being read out loud to them. Also, there is software that a student with a disability can talk to his/her computer and whatever he/she says comes up as text. This makes it easier for them and makes it so that they can be integrated into the classroom daily instead of partially or not at all.