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Assistive and adaptive technologies help students that are disabled that can't always use a mouse, see what is on the computer screen, or hear what the computer is saying. There are specific hardware and software that help students who can't always use the computer fully. It is amazing that there is software out there that help students who can't use a computer fully. Technology is amazing. I don't personally know anyone that has used such technologies. Since I will be teaching first grade, I will be faced with students asking me about adaptive technologies and it is going to be hard to explain to them why a student is using such technology. I know I will face it and overcome it.

Technology is so helpful in the classrooms. Since I have been in multiple first grade classrooms, I have seen how technology is very helpful when it comes to learning. I am so excited to have the technology in our classrooms. If the school is able to afford it, I would love to have a smart board in my classroom and for each student to be able to have an iPad. I can show them what they need to do on their iPads from my smart board and they are able to play learning games on it as well. I would love to have the program class dojo to keep track of how well my students are performing in the classroom and to be able to update parents on what is going on inside the classroom anytime during school. Here is a link for more information on class dojo. https://www.classdojo.com/

One of the new skills I have acquired doing the WebQuest is actually getting more creative when building a website. I have built one before back in high school but I haven't done it in a long time. It was amazing to learn all the cool tricks you can do when building a website and making it yours.

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