Technology for At-Risk Children



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 While researching technology in the classroom today, I came across this interesting article describing how using technology in a classroom is beneficial for children who are at-risk. This provides cooperative learning skills, teaching them how to work together and collaborate. The technologies used in the classroom are not made to only teach basic skills, but instead, they are real-world applications that support research, design, analysis, composition, and communication to the children. Recent findings indicate that by not challenging at-risk students or encouraging them to use complex thinking skills, schools underestimate students' capabilities, postpone interesting and meaningful work they could be doing, and deprive them of a meaningful context for learning and using the skills that are taught (Means & Knapp, 1991). Here is a website that is fairly similar with the technology for at risk children.