Child Development, Learning, and Diversity: Tutorials

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TUTORIAL 13.1 Using media and technology to address learning differences, children with special needs, and children whose primary language is not English.

Make sure your curriculum design incorporates strategies of management that will adapt to student differences and learning styles. Include in you web page collection, any listservs, e-mail addresses, and web sites important to accomdodating a variety of student backgrounds.

Surveying local, state and national resources to meet diverse learning needs.

Using Netscape or a similar browser, look for sites that address these issues. Catalogue the sites with a spreadsheet, database, or a bookmark collection of web pages. Consider seperating the collection into websites, newsgroups, listservs, etc...

Websites
www.netins.net/showcase/atforum/
Newsgroups
k12.ed.special (education of students with special needs)

k12.ed.tag (K-12 curriculum for gifted and talented students)

k12.lang.deutscheng (Bilingual German/English practice with native speakers)

k12.lang.espeng (Bilingual Spanish/English practice with native speakers)

k12.lang.francais (French practice with native speakers)

k12.lang.russian (Bilingual Russian/English practice with native speakers)

LISTSERVS
DEAFKIDS (Deafkids List for Deaf Children)

Youth Dialog: KIDCAFEJ (Japanese) - KIDCAFEN (Scandanavian) - KIDCAFEP (Portugese) - KIDCAFES (Spanish)

MULTI-L (Language and Education in Multilingual Settings)

MEDIA-L (Media in Education)
 
 

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