Assistive Technologies

According to my understanding, Assistive Technology (AT) is any piece of technology that helps a student with or without a disability to increase or maintain his/her level of functioning. These include laptops with specialized programs, like speech-to-text, text-to-speech, graphic organizers, and word prediction software. “Assistive technology enables people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified […]

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Assessment Technologies

Technology can be used for instant assessment in many different ways, such as tracking student progress over time. Perhaps even more compelling, however, edtech can also be used to aid formative assessment: helping to boost engagement, identify knowledge gaps, and support further/deeper learning. As we may have seen during the lockdown, cloud-based learning provides increased […]

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The Social Dilemma

Major Takeaways from the Documentary The documentary examines how social media’s design nurtures addiction to maximize profit and its ability to manipulate people’s views, emotions, and behavior and spread conspiracy theories and disinformation. We call ourselves “Users.” The documentary was overall shocking and disturbing. One thing that stood out to me was the term “users.” […]

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Productive or Destructive…

Your Brain on Technology Before the invention of the clock, humans perceived time very differently than we do now. To them, time flowed like a stream of water; the transition from one moment to the next was seamless and imperceptible. Once people started tracking time, that all changed. When we invented the first time-keeping devices, […]

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Audio-Visual Tools…

Education is an integral part of society. Everyone must get an education and teaching students is not an easy profession and even to get the knowledge is not easy as it sounds. So, teaching aids are necessary today. It promotes students to learn and engages them in learning in various engaging ways. The meaning of […]

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Theories of Learning!!

As discussed in the last class about different Theories of Knowledge, Understanding learning theories can result in a variety of outcomes, from improving communication between students and teachers to determining what students learn. There are five primary educational learning theories: behaviorism, cognitive, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism. “Learning is defined as a process that brings together personal and […]

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