My students need to be excited about literacy. The need to see how literacy place a role in ALL aspects of life and can lead to success socially and intellectually. I want to show them that literacy can be fun and does not always have to come from a textbook or reader that a teacher has chosen.
My students are technology driven.
They want to learn and seem to "light up"when they have the opportunity to use technology whether it be a computer, an ipad or a smartphone. They have had limited access to these sort of devices in education. We can open a whole new world for them with this device and the many many educational apps that are available.
My Project
Any student would become bored and frustrated with being handed worksheets everyday to supplement their learning. My students would love to be able to reinforce math, reading and writing concepts using an Ipad to solve real world problems or write a personal story or play a game that helps to increase reading skills.
The students in my classroom are cognitively impaired.
They are really good kids who want nothing more than to experience the many facets of life like any other teen age kid would. By expanding the technology in my classroom, I am hoping my students will gain life skills, increased communication and reading skills which will enable them to fit in with the general population of students in which they attend school with.
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