Child+Case+Study

For my case study, I used the little boy I nanny for, Colyn. I worked every week at UCP,and learned a lot about technology integration in the classroom. However, I see Colyn everyday and I am familiar with his classroom, teacher, technology he uses at home, as well as at school, and felt my case study would be higher quality is if used something I'm more familiar with. Colyn is a second grade student at Enterprise Elementary. At the age of 5 Colyn was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, and has been using technology in his classroom as well as at home to assist him. The technology I selected for the purpose of this assignment was his talk pad as well as his voice recorder. Colyn uses a Talk pad at school, and a voice recorder at home. They are used for the same purpose. Colyn has an auditory processing disorder,and he often has to hear directions repeated quite a few times before he can carry out the task at hand. His teacher uses the talk pad to record directions, or vocabulary words. This helps him in the classroom because he can replay the directions or words, or whatever it is he wants to replay that has been recorded until he feels comfortable. This also helps the other students in the class because the directions don't have to be repeated by the teacher over, and over. This frees up the teacher's time for other student's needs. At home, Colyn's parents record directions for cleaning his room, chores he is to do, things to remember for the next day, etc. They also record steps to complete math problems because he often forgets the steps to take.


 * Reflection:** This assignment has forced me to take a closer look at technology in the classroom, as well as technology at home. Since I have such a close relationship with the child, and the family, I can really see that technology is making life so much easier for the whole family. As a future teacher I will remember that technology can be such a great tool to not only improve a student's quality of education, self-esteem, and independence at school, but also at home. I will try my best to get parents involved in their students learning with technology. I felt this assignment was very worthwhile, and one of the most meaningful I have had to do while at UCF. Spending time with real students, who actually use technology in the classroom is such a great learning tool. Being able to see technology in action has helped me to understand the impact it can really have on individual students, as well as a whole classroom.

Sidenote: I spend everyday with this child, but completely forgot to take pictures, if you need proof of this assignment, I can give you Colyn's parent's phone number. I also spent time at UCP in the kindergarten room.