Technology%20for%20Special%20Education

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Technology for Special Education

• By Donna van Tol
• And
• Joshua Marshall

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• Theory
• Examples
• Activity
• Real World Application
• Results

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Theory

• Constructivism
• Working memory-Long term memory
• Whole word/phonics

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Constructivism

• Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD)
• Constructivist Theory
• Put forth the by Lev Vygotsky

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• John Dewey
• Every end becomes a means of carrying activity
  further as soon as it is achieved.
• Education does not occur in a vacuum.
• Should be related to real-world problems,
  experiences, events, etc.

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Working memory-Long term memory

• Semantic memory
• Depth-of-processing approach
• Craik and Tulving (1975)
• Elaboration
• Encoding specificity principle

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Whole-word/Phonics