Ensuring that all students have the appropriate tools to access online resources is critical to their educational success. As an instructor, this tool kit activity taught me that I have a lot more I need to be aware of in regards to student needs. Prior to completing this activity, I had not even known about certain adaptive technologies, such as pop-up braille readers and braille printers.
This activity taught me that I have to consider all student learning needs when planning and designing my actual course site for French 1 throughout this coming school year. I can better accommodate students by providing scripts for the media presentations, by adding descriptions for the presentations, by being careful not to select colors difficult for color-blind students to see, etc. I need to have conversations with the special education teachers in my school so that I have greater awareness and training on how to best accommodate students with various learning needs.
Lasty, an important question that arose in my mind after completing this toolkit activity is the following: How can students in my district access adaptive technology resources such as a pop-up braille reader, screen reading software, etc? This is something I need to find out when school starts up again.
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