Thoughts

My thoughts from class, well I thought our guest speaker was amazing. I thought it was great to get a point of view from someone other than just our text book. I thought it was great to see a first hand experience of what it was like to have a disability in our school system. It opened my eyes that often students who are shy are often put in the category as being shy and not actually asked about what is going on in their daily life and being diagnosed with what is really affecting them. I think that this helped to show me how we need to get to know each and everyone of our students and try to help them in any way possible disability or not. I appreciate that he did something that was so uncomfortable for him to help us out and really give us an insight on what a day in the life of a student with a disability would be like.

Technology in Schools Survey!

While working on my WIKI for class I decided to make a Wordle for my wiki page. So instead of just getting some random article off the internet I decided to email my facebook friends and ask them what was the first word that came to mind when I said "Technology in Schools" I was kinda shocked and also partially expecting some of the answers that I heard. The most common answer I heard was computers. I also heard answers like smart boards, which are becoming more and more common in classrooms. What I was shocked by is that no one included anything that was used to help students with disabilities. I wasn't completely shocked by this but it helped to show me that educators are not getting this help out to our students so that they can be more successful in the classroom. I think that most of the things that we have been doing in this class are completely new to me, and I am a senior in college. I think that it is important that as a future educator I need to try to get the technology help out to my students.