Assistive Technology- 5163: Day 3- May 13th, 2017

There were a few fellow classmates absent today, from class. Due to this I was able witness how Blackboard Collaborate works. It was pretty neat how Mrs. Welsford was able to record the whole 6 hour class, for those students absent. I would like to look into/explore this program more. I wonder if this could be used for a teacher to record lessons for their students, which they could do in their absence (with the substitute present)?

We then looked over our reading task analysis, that we started last day. When Mrs. Welsford read over the task analyses of three classmates, I couldn’t help but notices there were a lot of similarities, in thinking.

Some of these similarities: attention to task, brain processing that you need while thinking of this task (automatic neuro muscle control), short term and working memory, and needing experience and vocabulary to be able to make an inference.

*Reading Task Analysis- from Mrs. Welsford's notes

Marilyn Jager Adams’ Model of reading

*picture is from http://onceuponathirdgradeclassroom.blogspot.ca/2012/05/cafe-10-things-and-reading-brain.html

Today we were posed the question, "What is short term memory vs working memory ?"

I sadly had to Google the definitions….

Short Term Memory : The duration of short term memory seems to be between 15 and 30 seconds, according to Atkinson and Shiffrin (1971). Items can be kept in short term memory by repeating them verbally (acoustic encoding), a process known as rehearsal. (https://www.simplypsychology.org/short-term-memory.html)

Working Memory: is a system for temporarily storing and managing the information required to carry out complex cognitive tasks such as learning, reasoning, and comprehension. (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7143)

Below are 3 video's that we watched in class to help clarify how the eye works, how neurons work, and how we hear.

How the Eye Works

How the Ear Works

How Neurons Work

Apps that we were shown today:

Hear Builder

Memory King

Montessori Crosswords (good to use for an assessment)

Tumble Book Cloud Junior
(I will be giving this idea to parents, for over the summer)

Bits Board
(we made ours we could use it for vocabulary, social studies, science)

Duck Duck Moose

Symbol Support

*Very important to make sure to change the setting (for each app) to individualize the apps to the student you are working with.

In pairs, we were asked to explore Chrome Store, Google Play Story, iTunes Store and Microsoft store, While exploring we needed to to look for two Reading Remediation Apps that we find interesting (for our laptops).

Chrome Store apps we found:

1- TTSReader