Technology+Issues+(RJ)

**Higher Order Thinking**
I researched My Wonderful World to evaluate its use as a source for Higher Order thinking. Higher Order thinking is the ability to use information beyond the known facts. Technology can be used to support this by being a educational tool. The site My Wonderful world is one site that supports higher order thinking. This site supports higher order thinking by going through multiple steps. The first step is a quiz were the kids must use their own knowledge to get through it. This quiz also explains why they are wrong and why the correct answer is the right one by giving the answer a background summary. The rest of the steps are tours of Asia that help kids learn about the area by linking information to a certain location of the continent.

Diversity
Using technology is helpful when trying to teach diversity in the class room because it helps students to get to know other cultures. Using a technology is better then me presenting the subject because the information actually comes from the culture they are studying. Sites like Living Voices and African American World are written by people from those cultures and they understand what that cultures is better. The site Living Voices is about the Native American culture. It has many different people talking about their tribes and people. They also talk about the code talkers during World War I and World War II.

Technology to support all learners
It is important to use technology that helps special needs students. These technologies can range from anything to taping a piece of paper to a desk so it doesn't move to have a personal speech system. I would technologies like this for special needs students in my classroom. These students would have some form of cognitive impairment or physical impairment that causes them to have some problem learning in a general education environment. These technologies help these students learn and feel normal.