5364 - Week 2 Reflection

Week 2 also brought with it some wonderful reading and videos.

• "Using Technology With Classroom Instruction That Works"
• "Technology-Enriched Classrooms: Effects on Students of Low Socioeconomic Status”
• “The Impact of Education Technology on Student Achievement: What the Most Recent Research Tells Us”
• “Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning”

 I found most of the reading interesting and full of great ideas as well as things to think about. I really liked the article "Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning" by Rose and Meyer. 

This article, as well as many others, brings to light the fact that there are so many chances for students to learn with technology. Technology can be used to focus in on the different learning styles and learning disabilities that inhibit learning in some students. Using different kinds of media, to either use in initial teach or student created, can only help support what is being taught in a classroom. I know that we are all looking into the future and expecting student to have more access and more experience with technology, so it is up to us to be able to offer what is needed and use it to our/their advantage. We can’t’ stop it so, as they say, if you can’t beat it, join it! I guess that would be a great reason many of us are getting our Master’s in Educational Technology, to join them.

Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology Web site. Chapter 1. Retrieved from http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/