Adaptive technology

The adaptive technology that I explored was a program called Kurzweil. It is a program that helps students with writing, studying, and reading assignments. At adaptive technology they take a students textbook and scan it into the program, once they scan it, they send it to the student and they are now able to use their textbook in the program Kurzweil. The program offers many things to the students such as reading the text aloud, the use of a highlighter, note taking right on the text of the page, and much more. This helps the student in comprehending their material and also understanding it. This program also offers a option to read a paper a student rote so they are able to hear their mistakes rather than just read them. When students write papers they often misspell words, and have grammar problems, having their paper read out loud through Kurzweil allows the student to hear their mistakes very easily. This program is free to all students and is a great tool to use!

Assistive Technology

This is a keyboard that is on the screen that allows students that can't use their hands right, to use the keyboard! They are able to use the keyboard by clicking the mouse. This is a great tool for students that are not able to use their fingers properly. This is a great tool to help the students feel like they can still use a computer, they just simple have to use the keyboard a different way.

This tool is to set the mouse to look different on the screeen. For student that need a different color or a different object as their mouse. This option also alows the mouse to get larger or smaller, so if a student can't see the mouse curser very well they are able to change that by adjusting these settings. This is a great tool for students that can not see the mouse!

This tool is the Narrator tool. This allows the computer to announce certain things that the student is doing on the computer. This is a great tool because as the student types, they can have the computer say what they are typing. This is a great tool for students that mispell words because they will know right away if they spelled it wrong.

Formative and summative assessment

Formative assessment and summative assessment share a common goal of evaluating student knowledge.

• Formative assessment is intended to inform and guide adjustments to instruction on an ongoing basis.
• Summative assessment is intended to monitor progress and evaluate the overall success of both students
and instructional programs on a long-term basis.
Other distinctions stem from this difference in purpose:
• Formative assessments are often (though not always) informal and either embedded in classroom work or closely aligned to specific instructional activities, while summative assessments are more formal and separate from classroom instructional activities.
• Formative assessments are primarily intended to inform teachers and students, whereas summative assessments are intended to inform a broader range of stakeholders, including students, parents, teachers,administrators, the community, and various levels of institutional accountability.
• Formative assessments can take many different forms, all of which contribute to an understanding of a student’s learning, while summative assessments typically consist of a few standardized measures. Commonexamples of formative assessments include informal reading inventories, running records, oral questioning in a group setting, and oral or written
retellings of what students have read.