8 Helpful Assistive Technology Tools For Your Classroom - 4 views
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One of the most remarkable aspects of modern education is the great diversity of today’s classroom. Thanks to mainstreaming and inclusion policies, students of all abilities study in all classrooms from kindergarten through college, even when they have physical, psychological, or cognitive disabilities that seem too challenging to integrate or excluded them from traditional classrooms in the past.
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However, this integration creates challenges for educators. For example, the cost of teaching disabled students has more and more often fell on the already-stretched budgets of public schools. As one American school official told Huffington Post, this “raises an ethical responsibility question. We welcome our students with special needs, but the most expensive programming is on public districts.” This means that many schools may not be able to afford the kinds of special tools and equipment that may be needed.
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This was Anna's practice post using Diigo. The content of this post is not representative of the purpose of the group, so the post will be deleted - at some point. Her resource is good, and her post is valuable, but it needs to be moved elsewhere. Anna, I suggest you copy your information to preserve it in another place.
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8 Helpful ECE Technology Tools For Your Classroom
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