Week 2~What Technology Can Give to Students

The use of technology in the classroom has made learning and teaching easier. It has allowed teachers to bring more to their students. It has enhanced teacher lessons and brought resources, ideas, and viewpoints students. As a music educator, it has allowed for students to hear and see music better. Programs are easier to use and allow for students to let their own musical ideas come through, where before they would have to sit down at a piano with pen and paper and pluck out their melodies and harmonies. With new composition software, they are able to hear all parts in real time with different instrumentation.

Personally, I have not been able to see firsthand how technology and Ipads help children and students with special needs. After watching the 60 Minutes video about how Ipads and technology have changed these people's lives for the better is very eyeopening. I was amazed that before the technology existed some of these people and students had such a limited way of communicating. I realize that the technology was not there yet but I can't imagine being their family and teachers and trying to help them while at the same time having no idea what they are trying to say. I think it is amazing to see technology being used the way it was intended to be used, to help people and enrich lives. The potential use of technology with people with special needs is endless. It is going to be so exciting to see where technology can take us and take people with special needs.