Meeting the Needs of Diverse Students in the Classroom

I . View the Following Videos at: http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/assistive%20technology.htm

1. Assistive Technology – Enabling Dreams – show to the whole class

2. Autistic Student Learns Reading and Math – Chat Room 1

3. Josh’s Story – Chat Room 2

4. Assistive Technology in the Classroom – Chat Room 3

5. Ellen Using Assistive Technology – Chat Room 4

6. We Can Because We Think We Can – Chat Room 5 (if needed)

II. Answer the following questions for the videos in the chat room:

1. What was the disability or disabilities in the videos?

2. How did the technology help the student or students?

3. What were your impressions of the assistive technology used in the videos?

III. View two of the ELL/ESL sites and list two individual sites that you thought were good from each.