1.
Topic that comes to mind.
a.
The research question that comes to mind is
about disabled children. There is no mention of assisted technology in the
classrooms of those that are disabled for whatever reason.
b.
Disabilities and classroom technology
2.
I used the key words technology and schools and
disabilities. I found the articles were more in line with assisted technologies.
I was looking for information applying to General Education Classes that have
children with all levels of abilities. I found the Pew work did not seem to
address that area and I felt curious. I ended up using Disabilities and
classroom technology. It was here I found the article in Educational Leadership
which appears to be an academic journal. This article didn't address what I was
looking for but I did address the Pew articles summation that there is a gap in
technological learning by school and income. This article What’s missing from Teacher prep, states ““We needed to learn how to
integrate technology.” New teachers and their mentors were interviewed to
gather data about teaching methods for new teachers and the stumbling blocks
the need to overcome. I feel this is a growing problem and our schools are not
able to keep pace with the amount of children that would benefit from the
technology they could be accessing.
Chesley, Gary M.Jordan, Janice. "What's
Missing From Teacher Prep." Educational Leadership 69.8
(2012): 41. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 21
Mar. 2013.
3.
A: Authority Educational Leadership is a periodical for
teachers written by experts
S: Sources Google and K-12
P: Purpose To offer advice and solutions, articles and
service advertisements for educators
E: Evenness yes it
does
C: Coverage Yes it gets to the
root of the problem.
T: Timeliness May 2012
4.
I think the Pew article did a good job of
identifying there is a gap in the industry of educating yet it really did not
offer up much of a solution. Although my original research keywords yielded an
article that went in a different direction, I found that it held some answers
that were only brought up by The Pew group. There is a classroom gap and some
of the nation’s children are being subject to that old class thing. I feel that
today the better schools still have more money to higher better teachers and
they are still falling short of the technology opportunity in the classroom.
Once we start to address the gap in instructing
our educators in the best methods of technological instruction we first need to
establish what that is. We are developing so fast the advances are so immediate we are just now recognizing we need to have benchmarks for all the children not
just the smarter ones. Applying the technology of cell phones and tablets will
give all of the children the advantage but I feel the less wealthy ones would
feel that benefit the most. These are the children least likely to have access
to the technology on an every day basis.
Not
only is it a struggle for some schools to get the items they might need to be effective
the teachers are just now being taught effective technological learning by their
own experiences. I think the educational system will have a lot to contribute
when our classrooms can keep up with my tech savvy Three year old granddaughter.
