Survey and Infographic Project

Our next assignment for this class is to complete a survey/infographic project. I’m thinking that this project will be interesting and useful to learn how to do. Overall I am excited to get started working on it. I will first start by picking a topic and making a list of survey questions to ask. I will then narrow my questions down later on. I will then proceed to make my survey. After I make the survey I will work on distributing my survey through my social media accounts. I am however worried that I will not get enough responses from my survey, despite sharing it through social media. Overall I am looking forward to getting started on this project and I hope to learn more about how this could be useful in my future career as a teacher!

Intellectual Thinking

Our next blog assignment is in regards to intellectual thinking. I believe it is always important for everyone to be critically thinking and analyzing things. Sometimes all we do is listen, but never really analyze or think on our own. We read an article titled “Universal Intellectual Standards” , this article discusses the importance of teachers asking questions, that allow the students to think. The article discusses eight standards essential in the reasoning

process. Although they each have a different purpose, they all stem from evaluating and questioning your thought process.

I believe relevance is one of the most important of the eight. You must ask yourself when writing a paper and doing many things if what you're saying and thinking is relevant. If what you are writing isn't relevant, is it teaching you anything? Is it engaging your audience, or teaching them something important? As a future teacher, I believe it is important to encourage to think about these items, such a relevance, accuracy, and logic. If teachers introduce these strategies from a young age students will gain a deeper understanding of how to use these techniques in many ways, not only in the education setting. I believe just like we learn a sequence to a story, that we should be taught through worksheets and assignments how to think intellectually. I believe the tools that could be used are worksheets to assist with organization of thoughts. I also think discussions within a class could be a resourceful way to learn from each other about deeper questions and reasoning. Overall it is a learning process that involves practice and continued learning from teachers and peers to achieve.

Research Project Progress

The topic I have chosen to research for my research project is looking at how technology affects  students with special needs in the classroom? I find this topic interesting, because so many schools are becoming one to one with technology. Technology has become such a useful tool for classrooms. I am curious how technology has become incorporated into special needs students lives in the classroom. So far the research process is going fairly well. It has been more difficult to find scholarly article on how effective it is so far. However the internet has provided some very interesting and useful websites.

I have learned quite a bit from my research so far such as,  that technology can not only help motivate special needs students, but it gives them a better way to communicate or become more involved in their classrooms. I read a very interesting article titled “Bridging the Gap” today that I highly recommend anyone interested in this topic to read. I have posted the link to the article below. I do wish there were more articles pertained to a smaller range on this topic, because it is a fairly broad topic. The hardest part of this project is going to be to narrow down my focuses and to begin the writing process. I am looking forward to learning more about the correlation between technology and special needs students.

Here is the link to the article:

Bridging the Gap