Welcome educators and parents alike! I teach students with special needs and I am always looking for ideas to use with them. Please feel free to add your comments or ask questions. I will gladly help if I can but I am also interested to learn from other educators. When sharing, please remember to be discrete about personal information, especially names of your students. We must respect confidentiality.
For today, I would like to discuss using technology in the classroom. My students have multiple and often severe disabilities so a majority of the the technology used in my classroom is communication devices of some type. I am currently taking a course that discusses using blogs, wiki's and other technological services in the classroom, but I am struggling with how to use these things in my classroom. Any suggestions? Has anyone used these things in your classrooms? If so, any success?
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Katie,
ReplyDeleteTeaching special needs students is definitly a challenge. Any way you can get your kids to use technology will be a plus but obviosly there may be limitations. Do you think your higher functioning students could grasp the concept of blogging?
Coach Bish,
ReplyDeleteEven my higher functioning kids have very limited reading and writing skills. Many of them or on a preschool or kindergarten level and some are still learning their letters. And yes, I am still talking about my higher kids. I wish I could do blogging with them because I think it would help with their conversational skills but unless I read it to each of them and type it for them, they would not be able to blog.