Assistive Technology

The Assistive Technology foster the development of curriculum's and experiences. Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles that guide curriculum development resulting in equal opportunities for learning. Some functions or  of UDL would be focusing on different methods, materials, goals and assessments that are constructed to help students with all sorts of needs. This is important because it helps students when it comes to the Realm of free public education adapt better into their learning environments and allows them to adjust accordingly based on their specific needs. Both AT and UDL address the concepts of the individual learning needs of students. But the methods that they both approach are a bit different. For example, UDL is a proactive strategy that address many areas of curriculum development, whereas AT helps students in terms of any issues or disabilities they have when engaging in curricular tasks. An experience that I encountered when I done my observation hours for my special ed class, was that they had about 6 students in a classroom that all had special needs and there were about 4 teachers there to help assist the students as well as multiple different materials and objects used to help those students. For example, for one student who didn't know how to stay focused they had a mini trampoline in the class to help him stay on track. As well as a special round chair for one student who couldn't sit on a normal desk. So they had different objects and learning tools to help the students adapt in the classroom better. They also had a system called stations where there's about two kids at each station so the teachers can focus more in depth on those individualized students.

This is a math website that involves games lessons, quizzes, brain teasers and manipulative s. Its called cool math for kids and its for children from KG to 6th grade. This lesson engages in diverse learners by helping them play in groups and verse each other to see who knows the math problems. Its about math and math is universal so everyone of all backgrounds can understand it and is easy to teach. The technology tools being used is a computer website/ games. The purposes this technology tool can serve would be helping children collaborate with one another as well getting engaged into the math subjects being learned and succeed in them.