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Technology in Special Education Classrooms
Infrastructure Needed for Little Scholars ISD
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Provide Students with Assistive Technology Devices
“States may use IDEA funds to support the use of assistive technology devices that maximize accessibility to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. Districts may funds to provide the specific assistive technology devices and services as needed by an individual student to receive free appropriate public education.”
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Children with learning disabilities need to feel able to use the same technology that typical students use.
Technology in Special Education Classrooms
10 reasons to use of technology in Education
Infrastructure Needed for Little Scholars ISD
After learning that mere presence of computers does not guarantee the success of the integration of a technology plan in Little Scholar ISD. Exist three important aspects that I agree my technology plan sure consider as priorities:
Promote higher-order thinking skills by having the students doing independent practice about the content taught in class in a online questionnaire game
Offer Virtual Field Trips as an alternative of instruction for the class, where the students can visit one of many online exhibitions available such as libraries, museums or zoos.
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Training Strategies
The training of the new method of teaching known as Blended learning will start from one year in advance for all teachers, staff, parents and students, since it is an powerful alternative that requires disciple, rules, tactics and compromise from all participants.

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TECHNOLOGY PLAN
Vision
The role of technology in Little Scholars Academy ISD is to provide to special Education Students (children with disabilities) the same technology (device and software) that regular students use in classrooms as an option to increase student’ motivation to learn and personalize lessons to a student’s individual needs.
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Needs Assessment
Teachers and parents believe students with the most severe and profound disabilities can not use typical technology.
Students need to have access to learning opportunities that help them to close the technology gap.
Children with learning disabilities need to feel able to use the same technology that typical students use.
Education Classrooms
10 reasons to use of technology in Education
Infrastructure neededNeeded for Little ScholarScholars ISD
After learning that mere presence of computers does not guarantee the success of the integration of a technology plan in Little Scholar ISD. Exist three important aspects that I agree my technology plan sure consider as priorities:
Connectivity
Security will be one more aspect to be taken in account in this project, since It is the only way to keep students’ information safe from bad people and do not allow it be exposed and used against their integrity, by preventing the access of unauthorized data passing through Wi-fi and filtering the undesired and inappropriate pages directly to internet such as (pornography, social media, or any other consider prohibit according to the Children’s Internet Protection)
Integrating Strategies
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In order to ensure the success of a blended learning, the following strategies will be promoted:
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Promote higher-order thinking class in ana online questioner-game.
- Build communication skills by having the students discussing about their work after using software during the small group.
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Offer Virtual Field Trips as an alternative type of instruction by takingfor the class on a Virtual Field Trip, by visitingclass, where the students can visit one of the many online exhibitions available,available such as libraries, museums,museums or zooszoos.
Training Strategies: Strategies
The training of the new method of teaching known as Blended learning will start from one year in advance for all teachers, staff, parents and students, since it is an powerful alternative that requires disciple, rules, tactics and compromise from all participants.
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- Teachers
Teachers will be showshown how to it with technologytechnology, using their own devices
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Teachers and staff digital content adand get feedbacks
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Teacher will be revisitedvisited every 15 or suggestions
- Parents
Parents will learn using the school’sschool's website, e-mail and classroom’sclassroom's newsletter
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Students will be time and they will also learn how to search information by their own using online tools
Evaluating Strategies:tools.
Evaluating Strategies
The current sophisticate technology plan will start with 3 focus groups, each one of it leading by teacher with different levels of technology adoption or mastery (early adopter, early majority and late majority). Then it will be evaluated by the walk through of the solutions company and administrators of the school, who constantly will be making sure whichever tools chosen by the teachers remain focused on satisfied the following two requirements:
- Learning objectives of each lesson.
- Alignment of the lessons with content standards.
Safety Strategies
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Supervision
The teacher, administrators, principal and any other adult is responsible to select the content that is considered appropriate for children, they should monitor student internet use constantly since it is completely normal to see students tempted to follow what prohibit instead of obey rules, however, students need to learn they have very little expectation of privacy while using the technology inside the classroom. Set up a guideline of the content, activities and sites, students can identify what is and isn’t appropriate for their age or Install a PC Time Monitors that regulates the times of day and length of time kids have access to a PC.
Strategy #2: FilteringFiltering and Blocking
One of the immediate strategies for keeping students safe online is blocking the content that teachers don't want kids accessing because it does not support education and learning development. Purchasing internet product such as MyWeb can automatically blocks out any objectionable words or sites useless and restrict access to any programs on children computers your computer. Schools and teachers can protect children from undesired content setting up a PopUp Blockers, which prevent unwanted windows from popping many of those websites that contain inappropriate material).
Strategy #3: MakingMaking students aware
No! No! No! Won’t ever be a right answer to prevent student form inappropriate content. No matter the age or the educational grade level, all students around the word deserve to listen the reasons that support the “whys” they should try to keep themselves safe from inappropriate content. Students have to have the opportunity almost every day to discuss cyber issues and appropriate online behaviors. Discussions facilitate students’ understanding of the do’s and don’ts of internet safety.
Strategy #4: KeepKeep students information
Teachers, schools, administrators, principals and parents make the mistake to post feedbacks of their lesson plans through their own blogs, where student’s information such as pictures is uploading and expose to public without reservations, unfortunately can be easily misunderstood as a violation to children privacy. Teacher must keep their students information far from any kind of speculations that may affect their personal values. Changing blog from public to private so only registered users can see the content.
Strategy #5: IncludeInclude parents in
Encourage parents to participate in a digital safety vesper at school or to read the different recommendations provide in the school newsletters about how to keep children safe online. Can be a start to incentive parents ‘interest and clear expectations for appropriate internet use from their children. An interesting tool parents can use at home is a Keystroke Loggers, which keep a log of all communications between their children and others, so that way they can check what they have been doing.
Costs for yourCost of The Technology Implementation
A carefully developed technology plan helps Little Scholar ISD to ensure resources to make effective the use of technology for teaching to kids with specific Disabilities such as:
Hearing or Visual impartment
-MANGOMON: It is software that offers reading and mathematics lessons that give students individual attention and education plans. Cost: Free
-PHOTO VOCABULARY: Set of audio pronunciation and vocabulary flashcards. It a software designed to strengthens communication skills. Cost: Free
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COST
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Total equipment: 17.000 USD
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The budget of Little Scholar ISD also includes costs for maintenance of the all the areas of the Technology Plan
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Provide Students with Assistive Technology Devices
“States may use IDEA funds to support the use of assistive technology devices that maximize accessibility to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. Districts may funds to provide the specific assistive technology devices and services as needed by an individual student to receive free appropriate public education.”
Little scholar ISD will use Federal fund for hiring coaches that help teachers learn how to use devices or implement technology in their curriculum. The school will also use Federal funds to provide access to digital material in order to offer better support for students, and finally the school will use Federal Funds to acquire devices (tablets, laptops, etc.) in addition to the curriculum
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