1. Chapter 10 Promoting Success for All Students through Technology J. Charlene Welsh

2. 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

3. Online Translation Resources  Google Translate www.translate.google.comwww.translate.google.com  Translates words, sentences, and webpages between more than 50 different languages.  BabelFish www.babelfish.comwww.babelfish.com  A basic online translator that can translate words and phrases between 14 different languages  Newspaper Map www.newspapermap.comwww.newspapermap.com  Uses Google Maps to see the world and choose newspapers to translate into over 40 different languages

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

5. Tools for universally designed classrooms  Tagxedo www.taxgedo.com (need to install Microsoft Silverlight, which is similar to Adobe Flash)www.taxgedo.com  Create word clouds  Electronic spellers and dictionaries  TERC (Technical education research centers) has an online signing dictionary  http://signsci.terc.edu/index.html http://signsci.terc.edu/index.html  Calculators  http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html  http://web2.0calc.com/ http://web2.0calc.com/

6. Assistive technologies  Interactive electronic storybooks  Sesame Street Stories http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/free/http://ebooks.sesamestreet.org/free/  Story Place http://www.storyplace.org/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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