Chapter 10&11

Chapter 10 discusses on extra forms of technologies that can help teachers come up with alternative ways of teaching for students who need or who are familiar to a different way of learning. Since there are so many different learners in the classroom the accommodations have to be made in order to success for all students and to have new effective learning. These accommodations have to be design because no teacher has the time to design individual material for every student every day. According to chapter 10 teachers can adjust their curriculum and instruction to find every student benefits. Not all students learn the same of course. so teacher to use different instructional(DI) and universal design for learning (UDL). Using DI and UDL with students to achieve each student interest in ways that will engage the multiple learning style, to give the students many ways to understand the information and to offer appropriate challenge. Redesign and design classroom environment and change the ways curriculum delivered are important to improve the student learning.

Technology is the greatest assistive tool available to teachers to support all learners. some students struggle in school to find connections between academic content and their experiences. the teachers can use technology to make material become more accessible. However, Technology assistive comes in many forms to promote learning success for many different students. especially, assisting students with disabilities. One point in the chapter I found it interesting that technology help student to write confidently by allowing students to revise, edit, draft, and publish all in one document. Furthermore, technology provide for students to check their spelling and grammar.

Chapter 11 emphasize about the assessment in teaching and learning.in addition, the chapter 11 shows Three interrelated elements of assessment are: new teacher assessment, student assessment, and student self-assessment. SO, the technology plays important role to assess student and teacher’s performance since it displays in the actual real-word learning they have experience in school. Table 11.1 shows a comparison chart of types of performance evaluation of students and teachers.

The chapter illustrate the digital portfolio that is “a collection of educational materials stored in an electronic format such as a CD-ROM, website, or computer file” – which means that students can save their work to a disk, a CD, or a web page.

 A digital portfolio has some advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages of digital portfolios are that they are accessible, portable, creative, show technological self-confidence, and community. Some disadvantages of digital portfolios are that they require knowledge and skill, can sometimes need professional support, can sometimes use expensive equipment, takes more time and energy to create, need for increased viewer skills and equipment, and the presentation distracts away from the content. I think a digital portfolios require a large time and effort from me as teacher, but it has meaningful effective to growth and development me as teachers and student learning over time. I believe allowing students to creating portfolios can give students the voice in education make-decision.

I liked how online survey involve students to become in the assessment process because without student involvement, the student will just receivers, which effect student’s learning efficiency. Using participate system is a good way to encourages actively all students to participate that can lead student to understand more the academic materials and stored in the long-term memory. Also, it helps student to assessment them self to know their mistakes and learn from these mistakes.