Early Childhood Special Education and Assistive Technology Blog

By: Katelyn Baron, EC-SEAT Scholar Khan Academy is an excellent, free tool for teachers and parents to use as instruction and practice for student’s math skills. The website's lessons and activities address all math standards and can be tailored to the needs of the individual. Lessons and activities are sorted by grade and by subject content. Within each section, a student can access videos of clear instructions, learn the material, practice the material, and show their mastery of the material by completing a quiz. This website could be used in a school setting and at home. Teachers could use the site to further a math lesson and to focus on the needs of their students in a particular content area.      For the students, Khan Academy is a great tool for learning and mastering math skills. The website starts at early learning and ends with high school. Each student has a dashboard that shows the objects they are working on and includes a study plan which...

By: Ryan Keefe , EC-SEAT Scholar The multitude of uses around Khan Academy for teachers and students is phenomenal. Technology is prevalent in our classrooms, and while students in the earlier grades are beginning to learn how to work and use technology, the Khan Academy is fairly easy to use, and a great way to help introduce technology to students in various ways. A wonderful thing about the website as well is the ability for a teacher to tailor the lessons they want teach their students. And allow for developmentally appropriate assignments to be given. It also grants teachers the ability to gather the data to properly assess their students which aligns with the Erickson Institute 's idea that a primary purpose of gathering data is to find the answers to things we do not know. As teachers we must find ways of assessing and understanding our students capabilities, and their ability to learn. With data collection like what the Khan Academy grants, it is simple for teachers to a...