Friday, March 27, 2009
Kaitlyn Lara: The Internet as a Tool for Assisting Students with Special/Diverse Needs
While researching this topic I came across www2.edc.org/NCIP/Default.htm. This is the National Center to Improve Practice. The mission states that their goal is to "improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities by promoting the effective use of assistive and instructional technologies among educators and related personal serving these students." The website does this through the use of technology, media and materials. They provide numerous technologies one can use to teach diverse students, whatever their learning challenges may be. They provide a library, video profiles, guided tours, online workshops and links to other sites for special education resources. The website includes many videos that show "students using assistive and instructional technologies." One visiting their site can see that the NCIP views the internet, along with other new technologies, as a helpful tool in teaching students with special/diverse needs.
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Although the site provides a lot of information, I found it a bit difficult to organize the material in a way that it would be useful and beneficial to me, as a future teacher. It seems that one site leads to another that leads to another, which makes it hard to understand exactly the material I am looking for. The site did however introduce a large amount of material that hits on several topics not just being special needs. I feel that this allows you to use the information that is given in many different scenarios.
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ReplyDeleteI actually stumbled upon this site while looking for sites to summarize. I didn't use it because it was hard for me to figure out what i click to get information about new technologies. I really liked all of the videos that actually showed students using the new technologies.
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