Solutions Article

The title of the article I read is "Spicing up the curriculum using good junk and creative software choices: Preschool through grade three". The good junk is what made me choose this article. I am always interested in good junk! The article looked at different aspects in getting a lesson ready to use with your students. You need to make sure what is going to be taught, skills they already have that you can build on. The article also mentioned that you do not always need to use a computer to using assistive technology. You may have a lesson in where you can use adapted switches to operate a toy or other devices. This is the case for most of my students. We use a lot of adaptive switches to operate toys, radios, etc. We just recently received a new computer in our classroom and we are very excited about it. So far for my students we are just working on attending to the computer for a few seconds. But I am going to work toward having some of my students to be able to use an adapted switch to turn on a music video of some sort. It is still a long way down to road, but that is what we are working towards.