Blog #7

 Bloom’s Taxonomy is a concept commonly used among educators in lessons such as Science, Chemistry to be specific. For balancing equations, this concept can be kind of difficult to explain to students and even harder for them to grasp. Through a powerpoint presentation you can show them how to go about solving these issues. 
1. Create- create a new equation that the students have not seen before so they all have a fresh start to this new concept on the first slide
2. Evaluate- make a decision with your class how you will go about this problem and how it needs to be solved on the second slide
3. Analyze- on the third slide decide what connections should be made, what chemicals need to be combined or what chemicals will be lost
4. Apply- use what information you found out on the second and third slide to decide what is left to be done in the equation on the next slide, discuss with the class
5. Understand- Make sure that once the problem has been solved on the powerpoint and you have gone through all the steps that the class understands what happened in the equation
6. Remember- Use the last slide to recall what you went through and to retrace the steps, laying them out for the class to see, then you have your lesson

Adaptive technology is probably the best thing that has ever happened to education in my opinion. It has given a huge opportunity to children who have disabilities to learn and interact more easily with their peers and educators. Without such technologies, these children would not be where they are today and still be struggling with their disabilities rather than living with what they have and be able to move on. I personally do not know anyone who has used such tools but I hope to be able to help students who need them. My future career in deaf education will use educational adaptive technologies for both deaf and hard of hearing students so these products will be used everyday for me, as to why I am so appreciative of them. Challenges I expect to come across in the classroom is if the students cannot hear something correctly, either one student can hear something when another student cannot or vice versa. It is hard to determine how much a child can hear especially at young ages, not knowing how much they're truly struggling. 

The web page design was very interesting to me, the advancement of technology is coming very fast and one way to stay up to date with that as a teacher is not create a website. Students are on the internet a good majority of the time so having such website will keep them connected to you, your class, your lessons, and their assignments. I like how the teachers can be as creative or as simple as they want to be, as long as they get the information out to the students it is very helpful. How I would improve my website would be to add more information about me, my class, the assignments, and upcoming events. I'd also decorate more to spice it up!

http://fsusgreen.weebly.com/