Ryan White Cognition and Accessible Technologies 11/27/10 Technology Enhanced Lesson and Reflection Select a current technology

tool in your or! en"iron#ent and use it to hel$ learners #eet designated ob%ecti"es& Write a reflection of the e'$erience& (escribe the e'$erience including the technology in"ol"ed and the $rocedure for integrating the technology and teaching the learners& E'$lain hat or!ed ell and hy you thin! it or!ed ell& Also e'$lain hat you ould change for future i#$le#entations and hy&

When the brain recogni)es a fa#iliar tas!* such as co#$uting a #ath fact* it auto#atically $rocesses the infor#ation and a$$lies hat it has $re"iously learned& This reduces the de#and on #e#ory and allo s for higher order thin!ing& +n an effort to $ro#ote auto#aticity in #athe#atics* + ha"e been i#$le#enting a set of techni,ues for assessing student $erfor#ance on a regular and fre,uent basis fro# research $erfor#ed by Lynn -uchs and (oug -uchs& +n #y classroo# the students and + refer to the assess#ents as $rogress #onitoring chec!s& Although the assess#ent is $a$er based the co#$onent that really fosters the #onitoring of the results and #oti"ation to reach a designated ob%ecti"e co#es in the for# of an E'cel s$readsheet& Technology beyond doubt enhances this instruction and #oti"ates the students to attain a goal that see#s out of reach at the beginning of the year& What is .rogress /onitoring and hat does it loo! li!e0

.rogress #onitoring is a research based $ractice used to assess and #onitor a students1 acade#ic $erfor#ance in a gi"en area of study& Students are co##only diagnosed ith reading disabilities at the ele#entary le"el& 2o e"er* not until recent years has there been a stronger focus on students1 #athe#atical deficiencies& Auto#aticity is an essential s!ill in a young child1s #athe#atical education that has been scientifically $ro"en to alle"iate de#and on

Progress monitoring is a scientifically based practice that is used to assess students academic performance and evaluate the effectiveness of instruction. Progress monitoring can be implemented with individual students or an entire class.

can be an essential and integral $art of an inclusi"e standards3based assess#ent and accountability syste#& +n order to #eet the higher e'$ectations of current

standards3based syste#s* educators need infor#ation that can be used to $ro%ect ho students are doing against the grade3le"el standards throughout the course of the year so they can deter#ine hat needs to be done to accelerate student $rogress to ard the $roficiency standards& .rogress #onitoring techni,ues can $ro"ide that infor#ation&