This presentation educates teaching professionals on assistive technology and what/how to use it in the classroom. It also addresses diversity in the classroom and how to meet the needs of all students.

1. Bailey Martin

2. • Proactive approach
• Meeting needs of all students
• Personalized and customized learning
• Learning Profiles
• Student interests & learning preferences
• Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
• Technology
• Flexibility in content, processes, and products
• High-quality digital learning resources

3. • Setting Goals
• Students understand the outcomes
• Students achieve it through a variety of resources (technology
included)
• Students understand the importance of the goal
• Individualized Learning
• Students choose how learning happens through media, tools, &
context
• Teacher offer a variety of examples to appeal to different learners
• Students practice skills with ongoing assessment and support
• Teachers include activities for all levels of learners (challenging to
easy)
• Evaluation
• Digital Tools
• Learning Games

4. • “Assistive technology can help individuals become
mobile, communicate more effectively by seeing and
hearing better, and participate more fully in learning
activities.” (Netherton & Deal, "Assistive Technology in
the Classroom", 2006)
• Formal definition: any item, piece of equipment, or
product system used to increase, maintain, or improve
functional capabilities of individuals with disability
• Specific technology
• “low tech”
• “high tech”
• Legalities for Assistive Technology
• Available Hardware & Software

5. • “Tech Act” in 1988: ground zero
• 2004: IDEA requires assistive technology to be any piece
of equipment beneficial to the student.
• Section 508: students with disabilities have a right to
electronic and assistive technology
• “AT Act” 2004: funding for assistive technology
• Technology
• “low tech”: plastic pencil grip, clothespin, sticky note, paper clip,
calculator, spell checker, timer, small toys
• “ high tech”: portable word processor, computers, software
programs, voice-output devices

6. • Common Software
• Word Processing Applications
• Word-prediction
• Communication Tools
• Multimedia Tools
• Hardware
• Built in Computer Accessibility Features
• Keyboard Adaptations
• Mouse Adaptations

7. • 6 Key Behaviors
• Socially conscious
• Diverse backgrounds viewed as assets
• Helping schools view all students as the same
• Understand learners
• Know the lives of students
• Design instruction based upon past experiences & prior knowlege

8. • Collaborative Environment
• Teacher Modeling: Think aloud, share success/failures, behaviors
• Questioning: Critical thinking
• Quality Responding: sincere interest, care about thoughts/feelings
• Peer Interactions: encourage positive interactions among students
and promote community
• Reflective Journals: Share feelings and thought about what has
been learned and done in the classroom

9. • Teacher’s role: provide appropriate media and resources
to meet the needs of all diverse students.
• National problem: Different students have different
access to technology and internet at home.
• What can teachers do?
• Provide access to up-to-date hardware, software, and connectivity
• BYOD
• Provide access to meaningful, high-quality, and culturally
responsive content
• Provide access to tech-knowledgeable teachers

10. • Understand your culture & the culture of others
• Communication patterns across cultures that are different
• Storytelling
• Communicating
• When to speak/listen
• When/how children should speak
• Speaking to an adult
• Schools & Diversity
• Didactic Individualist
• Topic-centered Collectivist
• Topic-chaining
• Communal

11. • Work with students to develop cultural understanding
• Respect cultural diversity in the classroom
• Instructional Strategies
• Resource: Cennamo, K. S., Ross, J. D., & Ertmer, P. A.
(2014). Technology Integration for Meaningful Classroom Use.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Cengage Learning.Pgs 137-161,
269-290.
• Resource: Netherton, D. L., & Deal, W. F. (2006). Assistive
Technology in the Classroom. Technology Teacher,66(1), 10-
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