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Scaffolds vs. Inclusion Technology Supports In the article I read, the study was focused around technologies supporting literacy in the classroom. The conversation was centered around how tools like text-to-speech, speech-to-text, screen readers, and multimodal composition platforms are used remedially but should really be used to level the playing field in classrooms. The article argues, “These tools deserve a permanent place in classrooms in the same way they have permanent places in the work world” (Varinda & Pilgrim, 2021, p. 54). This type of inclusion makes sense to me if our goal is to prepare students for the world ahead of them. It is important to have the technologies that will be available to them in the world as tools in the classroom. This way students can be confident and skillful with these types of tools and be able to access more inside and outside of the classroom. Connecting to Math I enjoyed reading this article because of the close crossover with mathematics. M...

Magic School Lesson Plan   Part 1: The quality of the lesson is good. I am pleasantly surprised at the lesson in general. I think that the lesson that AI generated first is a great outline for a lesson addressing these two standards. I could have asked it to be more specific with certain parts but I enjoyed how vague it was. This would allow me to dive deeper with AI or take it and put my own spin on it.  The improvement I would suggest would be asking it to regenerate the lesson with time stamps, more of a problem based approach, and ask it for some worksheets to go along with the activities. I think the tool is useful for the rigor I am looking for in my classroom. Specifically with the assessments that it focuses on. This is a great addition to make sure that students are getting some sort of check in before moving on to the next lesson. This lesson reflects the readings because of it's emphasis on allowing students to create their own data displays, choose their own data t...