Discussion # 9 Chapter 15

Describe issues related to training special education teachers to use technology.
They have to know the legal area of the special education if they don’t then they can get in a lot of trouble. Learning the NETS so you can resort back to them when making lesson plans and accommodations for all of your students. Also when you have to learn how to use new materials and technology so you can import them into your classroom and teach your students how to use them properly.

Give examples of no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech solutions for special students.
No- tech would be like the girl in the video typing with just one had because of the impairment that she had with only having one hand. She learned how to minimize her impairment to help use it in any environment. Low-tech would be something like using a words list to help study for new words to use in your extensive vocabulary. This is a way to help you remember new words so they become no-tech. High-tech is things like using a wheelchair lift or a powered wheelchair. This comes in so handy when you have family member that is handicap. My grandfather uses both of these and it helps with us a lot because he can get around on his on a lot easier then one of us having to push him or having to lift him up to put him in the van.

Discussion #7 Chapter 12

What are the "history wars," and what are their implications for technology use in history?
The history wars is the controversy that people are having over whether they should teach traditional history or if they should incorporate other things into the history lesson such as technology. The thing that they feel that technology would help with is showing the students by using things like virtual trips or simulations how things are in places that they normally wouldn’t be able to visit or like go back in time and see what I would be like to live in a different era.

With students' ready access to information on the Internet, what might be the concerns of social studies teachers?
Some of the things that I feel are concerns for the social studies teachers is that some of the students may use the internet as a quick fix to get the answers they have instead of looking in the book or paying attention to you in class. So if they do this they may not go to a website that is all factual. I know there are a lot of websites out there that anyone can change them. So if they go to a website like that they are likely to get false information. That would be the biggest concern for me as a teacher as well as what type of websites are they likely to stumble upon while you are in a computer lab or doing some type of research so have a list of websites that they can use so they aren’t likely to have any problems with websites.