What a quick class.
The review of Kurzwiel at the beginning of class was helpful to begin our project. Learning zone editing was cool as well as editing words that were misspoken during the reading. It took the full class to work on familiarizing and applying the features of Kurzweil to create an actual student task. I found the time went quickly even thought it was about six hours. Upon reflection I wonder if it will become a more efficient process. It took that long to create one activity.
As a LC teacher I know that it is difficult to have classroom teachers buy into the use of these technologies. The time required for teachers to familiarize themselves and prepare activities for their students using various forms of assistive technology is a reason technology is not utilized at all or to the fullest in many situations.
I personally enjoy learning and utilizing technology available to support students but too find it difficult to find time to familairize,practice and customize features.
Reflection #6
16 years ago
3 comments:
I agree that the review was needed, mostly because I was not at the previous class. I was thinking the same thing about how time consuming it would be to prepare a lesson, but i imagine with practice it will get easier.
Kurzweil has lots and lots of amazing options and features...but it doesn't mean you will be using all of them all the time due to the necessity of the appropriate match to the student. Remember the primary features of Kurzweil is to provide auditory and/or magnified access to fixed print through scanning. That is simple and fast.
Unfortunately, time is an issue for all of us. I find for myself, as a working mom of two small children the only time I get to figure things out is late at night. If I don't fall asleep with the kids. One thing I have arranged, in an attempt to increase my knowledge of the programs currently being used within my school board, is to get a laptop from the tech. team (on loan) that contains as many programs as possible that I can explore on my own time (late at night). The tech team has ordered a new lap top for me to borrow and it will be coming fully equiped. Like everyone, none of us has the time during the school day so wouldn't it be great if we could have access to the programs to explore them when we have those moments. The more we know, the more we use with our students, the better it is for our students.
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