Blog Assignment 3

Peer Editing Tutorial

In the video,Peer Editing Tutorial,and the slide show Peer Editing SlideshowI feel like the video on Tutorial Peer Editing was very informative and helpful. I already knew how to peer edit but this made my knowledge of peer editing better. I also learned that there are three steps and that helps improving your peers paper. I found it very informative how you should always be positive when your critiquing someones work. I like that, because if someone peer reviewed my paper I would like that person to be positive as well. It also says, to always start of with positive comments and I love that idea. When someone puts all the hard work and time into a paper, they want to be told what they did right, not what they did wrong. Being positive encourages the writer to add things to their paper and make it the best paper possible. I also learned to give positive suggestions and when giving these suggestions be positive and specific. It is also very important to read through the whole paper or blog before you decide to make any corrections. So you have a complete understanding of the paper and not just a partial understanding.
In the video Writing Peer Review Top 10 mistakes, it was very helpful,because I find myself making these common mistakes while peer editing papers. One thing I got out of this video is that the person editing the paper should be more specific and not be broad. When people put things like this sentence "doesn't make sense", I feel like they should be more specific and actually tell them how to correct it. Another mistake people make while peer editing is rushing through the paper, instead of throughly reading the paper. Which ends up being no help to me ,because they did not put the time in to help me better my paper. Another mistake is when people get real defensive over people critiqing his or her paper. Instead of taking it in a negative manner, try to understand that they are just trying to help. I wish people could learn from these mistakes and become a better peer editor.

Technology in Special Education

The video Technology in Special Education shows how technology can effectively help kids with special needs. These kids with these special needs arent able to function and learn quite like kids that don't have special needs and technology gives these kids the oppurtunity to learn and interact with their surroundings. The video showed that a kid that cant talk or communicate, can communicate while typing on the computer instead of communicating while talking. For example, Chris liked tying his words out because it helped him communicate with the teacher. Technology helps them to have experience in the real world. Another way technology helps it when the kids listen to the assignment on their I-Touch and it helps them follow along with what their doing in their book. Some kids are auditory learners rather than visual learners. This means kids pick up on things better that they hear rather than what they see. With this technology I feel like like it would make the kids more eager to learn.

If I ran a classroom with kids containing special needs there are several things I would do to help these kids improve their learning. For example, if I assigned a book in class, I would play the book on tape so they could follow along better rather than just trying to read. I would also get these kids to type the things I was saying so they could better understand it. If they couldn't understand a word or sentence I was saying, i would get them to type it out.

How Ipads work for Academics with Autism

In the videoHow IPads work for Academics with Autism and after visiting the website Apple Education I picked the App Alphabyes, which I think would help kids with special needs tremendously. This App contains illustrations, sound effects and helpful hint options to help them learn their Alphabet. This will help kids learn words alot easier rather than just writing it down on paper. Rather than just being told they are wrong, this app will give them another try and continue to help them to learn these letters. This App gives a good visual effect and is a great learning tool for kids with disabilities.

Harness Your Students Digital Smarts

The video Harness Your Students Digital Smarts talks about technology can connect kids to the real world. This video shows that every kid can learn but everyone has a different way that they learn. Not every kid can learn by just lecture or pen and paper, some kids have to learn other ways and this video helps you realize that. She likes to teach kids how to use software and actually learn how to learn. It shows these kids how to learn and actually find ways to found out things by technology. Personally, I feel like this video is aweasome how technology can help these kids learn.