Unfortunately, I was unable to attend Tracy’s presentation on zoom but I have spoken with classmates who have, and I have reviewed the resources online. She spoke about BCEd Access, a volunteer run organization to help disabled students succeed in their studies. She also talked about how ablism affects students in BC. I think the Exclusion Tracker, which is run by BCEd Access is an interesting and valuable resource. Tracy in her slides asked the class to think about three ways that technology could support students in their classroom. While I wasn’t there, 3 ways I would like to use technology in my class are: allow students to access materials online and in person, record instructional time to help students who may not be able to make it in on a given day, and use translation and subtitles to support ESL students.
I have also taken some time to familiarize myself with some assistive technologies that may be available in my future classroom. The resource on our course website was was very useful for this.
Chromebooks: In many of the of the schools I have volunteered in, or have done my observations in I have seen Chromebooks. They are very useful as an assistive technology as they can do voice to text dictation, and they allow students who may have difficulty with writing to complete assignments at the same time as all their peers.
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