Blog Journal 8

Adaptive technologies are used to give more personal lessons to learners that may have disabilities. Some technologies include spelling checkers for those with dyslexia. I personally haven’t any experiences with such technologies. Some challenges that may arise from using these technologies, is they could be distracting to others or foster dependency on the program.

                You can use PowerPoint to support student learning in the cognitive domain by having them do exercises for memory on different slides. You could utilize the slides like a series of flashcards. For the Affective domain, you could include elements that appeal the students like graphics, images, and sounds. PowerPoint can be best used to teach the psychomotor domain by running exercises that make the students work collaboratively.

               

                I visited the site ChipIn at https://www.chipin.com/education-tech-trends-classroom/. The article covered a range of developing technologies from Artificial Intelligence to Mind Mapping. The author focused on technologies with figures and tables that show the expanded role of some of the technologies such as cloud computing. The article also touched on the utilization of consumer technology and the roles they could play within a classroom, exemplified by voice recognition technologies like the Amazon Echo Dot.