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Moodle - Moodle offers many different styles of assessment, from quizzes to workshops to lessons. Each offer different styles of assessment for different users. Teachers may wish to encourage learners to self assess, or may prefer more traditional quiz type assessments as part of formative assessment (Glynn 2012). This post offers instructional screencasts and documents on the various assessment options open through Moodle. It is useful due to its inclusion of turnitin, which is a program that scans for plagiarism and similar content. 8/10 Google Chrome - Google chrome is one of the most reliable browsers out there that is about user safety and security. I usually gravitate towards google chrome due to its ability to play any content that requires java or any flashplayer logins and most of all, I appreciate how google chrome can assign users to their profile so they can save bookmarks and favorites tab, not to mention incognito mode for users who do not want to be detected. It is a...
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Enabling Dreams for STEM

A challenge for the country is that colleges are not contributing enough graduates in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – the STEM fields (Kuenzi, 2008). In particular, business firms demand graduates knowledgeable in STEM for increasing innovations. To address this demand, the authors argue for broadening the student demographics of STEM to include higher-functioning (i.e. less-impaired) individuals with disabilities, as recommended. Colleges have historically not included individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities at mid-spectrum as matriculating students, as the individuals frequently have inappropriate individual education plans (IEPs) instead of diplomas from high schools. In order to incorporate lesson plans with students with disabilities, these lesson plans must be hands on, also very structured learning where students have to learn at their own pace as well as requiring a lot of attention from the instructor. This will...
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