Eighth Post

Universal Design for Learning use a variety of teaching methods to remove any barriers to learning and give all students equal opportunities to succeed. I learned that this design doesn't specifically target kids with learning and attention issues but focus more on building flexibility for every student's strengths and needs. In my classroom to support the three guidelines representation, actions and expression, and engagement I would use PowerPoint with added audio to slides as well as videos to show the kids our focus in the class. To put things into a more interaction state, I will assess the students with quizzes, test and even oral presentations to show what they had learned. To fulfill the engagement guideline, I would play group games with the kids to help with skill-building and to motivate them.

Adaptive technology is any object or system that is specifically designed for the purpose of increasing or maintaining the capabilities of people with disabilities seldom be used by non-disabled people. in everyday use, adaptive technology often refers to electronic and IT-related systems- like systems that help blind or deaf individuals use a computer. examples of adaptive technology are screen magnifiers, adapted keyboards, telephone typewriters, handheld amplifiers, screen reader software, digital talking book players and closed captioning programming. I don't know anyone who has used those type of technologies. I really don't think that there is a lot of challenge to using adaptive technologies.

From last week's assignment I learned the many complications of creating your own website. It wasn't an easy task but it was a very interesting assignment!

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