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Teaching with Technology- Week 2 Reflection

This week we read and learned about how technology can impact student performance in the classroom. Knowing now how important technology is to the overall achievement of our students, I found it very interesting how researchers early on thought technology expenditures in schools were “unjustified” (Page, 2002). Our students as well as educators would not be able to function effectively in a classroom without technology.

Twenty-first century learners and educators require technology to teach and learn effectively. The principles of Universal Design for Learning are an excellent way to teach all types of students ranging from special education to gifted and talented. Teachers present material in many different ways using technology and students are allowed to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways using technology. Universal Design for Learning attempts to ensure students are given many different paths for absorption and demonstration of knowledge.

Page, M. S. (2002). Technology-enriched classrooms: Effects on students of low socioeconomic status. //Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 34//(4), 389–409. Retrieved October 5, 2009 from the International Society of Education at []

Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). //Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for learning//. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology Web site. Chapter 1. Retrieved on October 5, 2009, from []