Websites

The websites that I choose below are all important in different ways. The first one is a great resource for educators, students, and parents. It provides everything from resources to professional development to online tools, as well as forums for communication about everything mathematics for people across the U.S. The second is great for teachers of all subjects. It can provide teachers from all grades interdisciplinary lesson plans and resources that can spice up their units. The last website that is listed is one of many calculator programming websites. Graphing calculators are necessary for upper level math classes in both high school and college, so it is important that students understand how they work and get supplemental programming with them.

Math Forum

PBS Teachers

TI Calc Programs

Assistive Tech for reading

I think that the programs in the article sound good. I do have a few concerns. One is would the students become too reliant on the technologies to help them read? It seems to me that when you learn something in a certain way or context then that becomes the way that you understand it. The other concern that I have is that in the reading it states that these programs are under used by teachers for students who have learning disabilities, but it seems that if the teacher didn’t commit to these technologies and only have heartedly used them it would hold back some students instead of help them. But to me if you had a teacher that had the program and believed in using it properly, then they could be effective.

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