Where is EVERYTHING???

Most people are winding down their school years right now.  This is the first year in ten years I am not working on a school schedule.  It is the strangest thing to me not to have summers off and set vacations.  I am not sure how I feel about it yet.

I am struggling to keep track of all of our assignments in LEO.  I find the system very confusing (because everything is in a different place) and hard to follow.  I am sure I have missed some assignment already.  I am doing my best.

I am excited to tackle this weeks assignment of creating a computer lab.  I am tasked with this assignment for my schools and this will give me a great opportunity to be well researched when I provide feedback to schools.  I am not sure where to start just yet but have a lot of research complete.  I have reached out to people I know who may use assistive technology for our interview assignment.  Both have come back that they don't use technology often.  However, my brother is a principal for a religious school and he says he uses technology to help his students who have disabilities.  I think it will interesting to see how assistive technology can be implemented outside of schools.

One thing these assignments make me think about is our teacher preparation programs.  I know there are a lot of conversations about Teach for America (and other programs like this) and teacher preparation programs.  Assistive technology is so specific that I wonder when teachers are actually given the instruction to be able to implement it successfully in the classroom.  From experience I know that Teach for America has a huge amount of supports for their Special Education teachers but I have never seen assistive technology specifically taught to the teachers.  In addition, I don't know if teacher preparation programs teach about technology unless you are a Special Education major.  May be both programs need to think about how to focus on technology and how it can be used to drive student achievement.