3.4 ADAPTIVE AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Candidates facilitate the use of adaptive and assistive technologies to support individual student learning needs.
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The special populations artifact is a paper I wrote when working on my Master's Degree. I researched the information and completed the paper myself. It discusses using different types of technology to meet the needs of different groups of students.
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This artifact demonstrates mastery of standard 3.4: candidates facilitate the use of adaptive and assistive technologies to support individual student learning needs. The paper discusses the use of adaptive and assistive technologies to support the learning needs of different specific learning needs. This paper, and the research conducted to complete it, shows that I understand both the important legal implications of adaptive and assistive technology, and the equally important benefit to student learning. The paper also shows that I understand how to facilitate the use of adaptive and assistive technology in order to support student learning needs.
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One thing I learned through the development of this artifact is that many adaptive and assistive technologies exist to help support student learning. I also learned that many technology tools, that I already use in my classroom, can be used as adaptive or assistive technology. One thing I would change in this artifact is that I would discuss the one student I have worked with who did require assistive technology as a part of her Individualized Education Plan. Handwriting was very difficult for her so she was provided a special technology that enabled her to type her work instead of hand writing it. This is the only time I have worked with a student who required adaptive or assistvie technology so I wish I would've included that in the paper.
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The work that went into creating this artifact impacts student learning. My knowledge of using adaptive and assistive technology directly benefits the students in my classroom by ensuring that I know how to use technology to best meet their needs. This impact can be measured by monitoring student growth.
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