Amber: March 2009

(Reflective Essay- "Enabling Dreams")

Technology is a tool used immensely today alongside Assistive Technology. Assistive Technology offers students with disabilities the chance to successfully participate in all the activities offered in the classroom setting. Being aware of the different diversities in your classroom and accommodating for it will make your lesson plan and time management run smoothly. The important part of your lesson plan is not only the content, that they meet standards, or that you are assessing your objectives, but that it is accommodating for all your students and that all your students can successfully participate. Assistive Technology should not change the total outcome of your lesson plan but what it should do is accommodate for the student with disabilities so that he or she can actively and successfully participate.

Assistive Technology and Technology in general have brought on much advances, but the true core to those advances and incorporating it in the classroom is a teacher who is aware of the different types of Assistive Technology and incorporating it into his or her lesson plan to help accommodate her students, because every child has a need, little or big, and they should have the opportunity to explore with Technology!