Discussion Board Week 7:
Assistive Technology EDUC
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Roblyer & Hughes (2019)
discuss considering opportunities
to teach online. I teach
developmental reading to a small group of ninth-grade special education
students. During remote learning this school year under the pandemic conditions
of COVID-19, I had to devise a way to read a book with my students and do activities
and answer questions without being able to physically put a book into their
hands. Choosing a book that we had classroom copies of, I went out to Amazon and
purchased the Kindle and the Audible versions of this book. All of our students
have a division-issued Chromebook that they use to access our learning
management system and zoom classroom links, and if necessary, each student is
provided a portable hotspot for Wi-Fi. Each class meeting, I would share my
screen where I was displaying the text of the reading as large as I could, and
we would read along as we listened to the Audible version read to us. We would
move through chapter by chapter, prereading the chapter comprehension questions,
reading the chapter together, and then discussing the answers to the
comprehension questions for that segment of the story. I am certain that my attempts
at providing equitable access for all of my students to these resources had a
positive impact on their reading fluency and comprehension, despite the
pandemic climate we still find ourselves in.
References
Roblyer & Hughes (2019) Integrating
educational technology into teaching. New York, NY: Pearson.
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