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=Using Technology to Support Higher Order Thinking= toc

1. How can technology be used to support higher-order thinking? Technology can be used to support higher-order thinking by helping kids learn to think through and analyze an assignment. Technology gives the students the option to think outside of the box, and explore things and options that they have not experienced prior to using the technology.

2. Give an example of a technology that supports higher-order thinking and be specific in describing HOW it supports higher-order thinking. I looked over an interactive website called Fractured Fairy Tales and enjoyed how you could use your imagination to control your experience. This site allows students to put new twists on their favorite fairy tales and make them go as they want. This helps students be creative and actually think about an assignment and understand what is going on instead of just going through the process.

=Using Technology to Support All Learners=

1. How can technology be used to address the needs of learners with special needs? Technology can be used to address the needs of learners with special needs in many different ways. One way is to use a word reader if their are visual needs for the learner. 2. Give an example and explain how it would support students with special/diverse needs in your future classroom? One way that technology can be used to support special needs/diverse students is to respect their situation. If they are physically impaired then many different options can be used such as a word reader for blind students. Also their are many websites that can be used to teach the diversity of other cultures such as National Geographic or even something like a civil rights website to respect the backgrounds of other cultures and learn what they go through.

=Using Technology to Affirm Diversity=

1. How can technology be used to affirm diversity? Technology can be used to affirm diversity by opening up the doors of excessability by making it easy to find and navigate throughout a large amount of information. 2. Give an example of a technology that affirms diversity and be specific in describing HOW it affirms diversity. The Smithsonian Website has a great tour feature to take you through the history of different backgrounds such as African American Heritage.