https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve How incorporating technology can support diverse learners en-us 2017-11-02 23:20:16 UTC 2025-10-30 14:18:44 UTC hello@padlet.com andrew_galbraith https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203141912 Technology is brilliant at facilitating differentiated instruction. Because each learner is different it's a huge challenge for teachers to accommodate the needs of everyone. Technology can support the differences more readily than doing things by hand. An example: A student in my grade 9 academic math class has an IEP that identifies an LD where he has very limited working memory.  He has a very tough time doing multiple tasks simultaneously (example writing a note while listening to what is said by the teacher).  Google classroom allows me to share all notes I do on the SMARTBoard with the class so this student is able to focus entirely on what I, as the teacher, am doing and saying and he doesn't have to worry about capturing it in to his own notebook. ]]> 2017-11-02 23:25:32 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203141912 andrew_galbraith https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203143732
From https://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/brocked/home/article/viewFile/146/143

" Special education is an issue in First Nations communities and schools. First Nations students with special needs attending First Nations schools encounter many difficulties. These difficulties include: inadequate funding (Fulford, 2007; Kavanagh, 2006; Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win, 2007a; Martin, 2009) and lack of services (Brant 2000; Mamow Sha-way-gi-kay-win, 2007b). Such difficulties have resulted in many First Nations students with special needs being forced to leave their home communities to attend provincial schools to have their needs met (Assembly of First Nations [AFN], 2005) "
Technology offers a handful of opportunities to mitigate many of these issues.  One of the most obvious is it should allow students to not have to leave their homes.  Collaboration technology will allow students to work with others remotely.  Skype will allow students to work with educators from a distance.  
Technology will allow all students "to have a voice", each student has the opportunity to communicate the concerns/desires in a way that without it, they would be unable to.]]> 2017-11-02 23:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203143732 andrew_galbraith https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203144449 From the http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/manyroots/ELL_LPS.pdf

" Opportunities to maintain and use first language as a bridge to new learning "
Technology would allow students to work in their first language for many tasks and then using applications such as Google Translate, educators would be able to understand what the student is communicating.]]> 2017-11-02 23:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/andrew_galbraith/41crf01wq4ve/wish/203144449