IT 344 Spring 2013

This article focused on differential access to computers in school and home in the lives of kindergarten and first grade students. Super interesting article!! 

Encouraging students to use cellphones turns the phones into tool instead of distractions. By allowing students opportunities to use their phone in class, the teacher is preparing them for the real-world. Most students have cell-phones so it's beneficial for schools that don't have the newest technology to allow students access to their phones.

This article gives a lot of examples of how technology has changed throughout the years in the classroom. 

This resource provides five ways that readers can use iPads in the classroom. These ways include intervention, enrichment, assistive technology, digital literacy, and for organizing resources -and for reading. The author provides specific examples of ways that iPads have been implemented into a classroom.

There is a slow response of publishers to digitize textbooks to ebooks in order to consider the benefits and disadvantages of switching from print to digital. One big problem is how to distribute the technology equally in order to benefit students in schools.

At Princeton University there was a pilot for using e-readers where students were able to give input and feedback about using e-readers. Students appreciated the reading part of the kindle and saving paper, but would like to see better functions for note-taking, highlighting, and easier note-taking while using the kindle.

This article talks about many ways students can use smartphones in their classrooms to their advantage.

This website gives helpful tools with how teachers and parents can help prevent cyberbullying among students 

A whole website based around assistive technology! It includes additional resources, needs, and example scenarios for when to use assistive technology in this amazing "teacher's guide". This is a must reference!! SEARCH CRITERIA: INTEXT: "assistive technology"

education technology is us: helping teachers deal with technology. This site is dedicated to the comprehension of Web 2.0′s place in the educational materials development.

I googled, "Disadvantages of using Smartboards in Special Education classrooms." I wanted to see what the views people had with having smart boards used in Special Education classes. It's interesting to read that even though smart boards seem like they would be extremely beneficial to a classroom, that some special ed classrooms will only run into disadvantages.

Smart Boards in Special Education classrooms.

This is a very creative web layout with extreme detail of all aspects of cyber bullying. Shares definitions, resources, provides safety tips for phones and personal webpages, gives real life examples of victims of bullying, and helpful people to contact for help if you are being bullied.

Information on Selective mutism. Search Criteria: Google: Selective Mutism.

This article talks about how technology in classrooms is helpful, yet a lot of the time students might not have technology at home. This can hinder some students ability to complete classwork.

This is an excellent resource for students who need assistive technology. It is a list of apps, divided into categories such as speech and language, organization, and reading, that is specifically created for students with learning, language, or intellectual disabilities. If I have access to iPads in classrooms which I work, I could install apps that are specific to each child's needs.

This is a summary of research done that supports the use of calculators in the classroom as long as the operation is first learned by hand.

Something to consider if you plan to teach math... or have kids...

This article is about twitter int he classroom. It talks about how twitter can be used to teach. The teacher tweets questions or main points to the class, then they respond and they can use the textbook and twitter and other resources. Also students can use twitter to research through hashtags and also used twitter to bookmark good sources. The article also talks about the drawbacks of using twitter in the classroom. The article also talks about how teachers collaborate and share ideas through twitter, skype, and google docs.

This website posts a very effective visual diagram calling attention to the different social media's used currently in schools, their percentages of usage, how they are being used (in class, school pride, career development), their successes and challenges and the top social media universities.

search: early childhood education+technology+articles This site contains many more resources that I would like to look further into. Many having to do with the application of technology in early childhood education environments.