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FButt · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

The following paragraph is taken from a textbook's discussion of children who have physical disabilities:

Physical and health impairments are general physical or medical conditions (usually long-term) that interfere with school performance to such an extent that special instruction, curricular materials, equipment, or facilities are necessary. Students in this category may have limited energy and strength, reduced mental alertness, or little muscle control. Examples of specific conditions that may qualify students for special services include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, asthma, heart problems, arthritis, cancer, and AIDS. The majority of students with physical and health impairments attend general education classrooms for part or all of the school day (U.S. Dept. of Education, 1996).
Which sentence within the paragraph most clearly shows APA style?
a. The first sentence
b. The second sentence
c. The third sentence
d. The last sentence

Question 2

Discuss how computer-based technology can be used to strengthen students' ability to process information. Then summarize the effect of multimedia, hypermedia, and virtual environment programs on learning and metacognition.

What will be an ideal response?

Andromeda18 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 20, 2018

Answer to Question 1

D

Answer to Question 2

Although the use of computer-based technology has its roots in behavioral approaches to learning, current technology is more likely to reflect a cognitive perspective. Programs are designed to reduce the cognitive burden of complex tasks and to help students formulate and represent knowledge, to acquire new knowledge and skills from a variety of subject matter areas, and to become more adept at regulating their own thought processes. Specific technology tools designed to assist students in the areas of writing, reading, science and math, and art and music are discussed in detail in the text.
Multimedia and hypermedia tools are also discussed. As previously mentioned in Chapter 2, multimedia tools, such as encyclopedias, databases, and libraries, provide students with information resources that use text, photographs, digitized video, animation, and sound to enrich student understanding of various topics. These tools are related to the information-processing concepts such as meaningful learning, the dual coding of information, the use of visual imagery, and elaborative rehearsal. Remember, the more rich and dense the network of connections, the more likely that meaning will be comprehended. Hypermedia tools allow students to use multimedia information nonsequentially. Students may access, examine, and construct information through the use of links that reference one another or that help organize the resource. The advantages of these tools is that they provide a rich network of ideas, the compact storage of information, the rapid nonlinear access to information, the flexible use of that information, and learner control over the system. Virtual environments, such as Quest Atlantis, combine elements of both multimedia and hypermedia programs. They allow students to work individually or in groups to refine their elaborative processing and metacognitive capabilities in a realistic and engaging environment.