Chapter 10Promoting Success for All

Students through Technology

J. Charlene Welsh

Basic Overview

This chapter discusses using various technologies within lessons to support the learning of diverse students.

Diverse students are students from different cultures, backgrounds, and experiences

Multicultural education is affirming the expansive diversity of student interests, needs, and talents present in every school classroom

Technology can allow teachers to create learning situations in which students can gain better understandings of students from different cultures, races, languages, and genders

Online Translation Resources

Google Translate www.translate.google.com Translates words, sentences, and webpages between

more than 50 different languages.

BabelFish www.babelfish.com A basic online translator that can translate words and

phrases between 14 different languages

Newspaper Map www.newspapermap.com Uses Google Maps to see the world and choose

newspapers to translate into over 40 different languages

Differentiated instruction Creating different learning experiences to meet the different

needs of individual students

Teachers need to take into consideration the different learning styles of their students

Hard to find time and resources to differentiate the instruction while considering the students interests, their learning styles, and the curriculum

Universal design for learning An educational framework related to creating learning

environments that will be beneficial and can accommodate student learning differences

CAST www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent

Video to help understand DI and UDL http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/window.php?src=videos

Tools for universally designed classrooms

Tagxedo www.taxgedo.com (need to install Microsoft Silverlight, which is similar to Adobe Flash) Create word clouds

Electronic spellers and dictionaries

TERC (Technical education research centers) has an online signing dictionary http://signsci.terc.edu/index.html

Calculators http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html

http://web2.0calc.com/

Assistive technologies

Interactive electronic storybooks Sesame Street Stories http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/free/

Story Place http://www.storyplace.org/

Speech Recognition Software Displays text on a computer from a user’s spoken words

Text Reading Software Allows users to hear the computer read written text

Screen Reading Software Translates the visual page

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