Blog Assignment #3

What is Peer Editing?
While watching this youtube video, the most valuable thing that stood out to me most was to Start the comment you leave on a blog, off with a compliment. To me that says a whole lot, Because not only are you acknowledging the fact that they did have some good points, but it lets the person know that you are not coming at them with a negative outlook, but rather a positive one. The next thing that really stood out to me was that you have to take into consideration how would you feel if you were the person being corrected and all you heard back from the reader was the negative comments? I am sure you would feel that your Blog was less then ok.

Peer Editing Tutorial
In this Tutorial on editing with perfection, I've learned that Editing is nothing more than making useful helpful suggestions to better improve ones work, and not at all meant to make the person feel any type of negativity about the work that they have produced. Using great word choices,giving good detailed descriptions of what you are talking about, and also keeping your blog post well organized are great suggestions for having a good blog.It not only makes it easy for the reader to comprehend, but it also makes the blog flow more consistently.

Technology In Special Education
After watching this video I feel like Technology has affected the way Special Education is taught in that,special needs students who could only read and follow a story was if a teacher was there to read the story out loud to them. Now days with the help of technology, students are able to follow along at their on pace on individual headsets that plays the stories for them. Technology has made it easier for students and teachers to communicate better with each other,whereas before teachers had a difficult time understanding their students and students expressing their thoughts to teachers.

With the help of technology Special needs students are able to do classroom assignments and keep up with the teachers instructions and also participate more actively. Students are now being able to build relationships and make connections that without the use of technology would have otherwise been very difficult to express. Students who had trouble reading book text before are not eager to use laptops because it magnifies the small print for them, making reading a breeze for them. Students who had trouble holding a pen or pencil before are now able to type what it is they are trying to relay to the teacher.

I can use technology in my future classroom by letting the students use e-readers to follow along with books that are in the curriculum. I could also use the smartboard to quiz students on topics from subjects we go over in class. Students would be able to come up to the smartboard and touch the correct response, and any student that can not physically come up to the board will use the clicker.


How the iPad Works with Academics for Autism
For my future special needs students I would use both applications for learning to read and also learning to write, since they both go hand in hand. I found a very useful App for writing called "Kids Writing Pad" It helps students with their motor skills while at the same time having fun doing so. Another app that I found to be very useful and fun for learning how to read is called "How Rocket Learned to Read". Using fun apps in the classroom is a great way to get and keep students attention, helping them to learn more and actually use what they are learning in everyday life. These apps would greatly improve a students will to learn and even perhaps make them want to come to school everyday, because they will begin to understand that learning is and can be very fun.

Vicki Davis: Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts
Right from the start of Mrs.Davis video, when she talks about her accomplishments you can just tell that she loves her job and is very passionate about it. Winning teacher Blog of the World is a very Big Title to hold, and I am quite sure that she spent a lot of time working on her blog. The statement that she made when she said that "children have trouble when you have only paper, only pencil, then only certain types of students are going to succeed." I can really agree with this statement because not every child learns the same way, so being able to produce different ways of learning and also making them more interesting would ultimately open doors that would have otherwise been left shut.

Creating ways for students to think on their own is a great way to help students become independent and self-reliant. A great example that Mrs.Davis uses is that she may use new terminology which enhances the students vocabulary and knowledge. Mrs. Davis motivates and encourages her students to be thinkers, and not to just sit around and wait for the answers to hit them, but to actually go out and find the answers for themselves. Being able to travel to another country through a Blog that Students and teachers administer together and outsource with peers from another country,is a great motivation for me to use Blogging in my future classroom.