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ASSIGNMENT 1:
INFORMATION
LITERACY

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Kenneth Glenn 2nd
Technology Transformed

Technology, during the course of mankind, has momentously enhanced the

quality of life and safety in the elderly and those persons with disabilities. By
unifying diverse technologies concurrently, corresponding with those of mobile and
assistive aspects, students such as Beth Hadley and her team took matters a step
further and devised an application that will revolutionize the nurse call system in
their local assistant living home. This will ultimately allow clients, both resident and
nurses, to communicate virtually anywhere for requests fluctuating from a glass of
water, commencing a video chat along with text messaging, to a real life
emergency corresponding with a slip and fall. Residents, who have limited
capabilities due to age or disabilities, will now have the opportunity to expand their
communications with nurses through modern technology that has already improved
their extremely innovative home. What started off as a senior project for students at
MIT, quickly turned into an IPad application that will enable residents to gain access
to assistance from anywhere and give them a piece of mind wherever they may be
to make their needs known.

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Kenneth Glenn 2nd

Internet Article Comparison

Yahoo
Assistive and Educational Technology
Standards and Teacher Competencies

Bing
Assistive Technology and Learning
Disabilities

Familiar with search engine for

years
Easy to use
Can filter out content with ease
More adds and useless content

More direct results

Less adds
Better visuals on homepage
More concrete sources

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Kenneth Glenn 2nd

TRAAP
Assistive technology and learning disabilities: Today's realities and
tomorrow's promises

1. TIME
a. It was written in January of 1998 and I havent found an
update as of yet. Only found a few articles that used this
article as a reference for their articles or journals
2. Relevance
a. It relates to my topic of assistive technology by giving me
multiple examples of assistive technology in almost
everything we do and use today
3. Authority
a. Yes this information is trustworthy to me due to the fact that
it I found it off of a .gov site. The author, Rena B. Lewis, has
a Ph.D. majoring in special education and minored in
psychology and was honored with an award by the
International Reading Association.
4. Accurate
a. I would say that this information in the article is accurate
based on the state of the world in 1998. Within the article,
she cites several references to other journals or articles that
support her topic.
5. Purpose
a. I gather from the article that this article was written to inform
the public about the adaptive technology that is steadily
increasing to help and assist those who appear to be outside
of the normal.

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Kenneth Glenn 2nd

Scholarly Journals

1. Hammond, M. (2003). The utah assistive technology

foundation: Program features and initiatives. Journal of
Disability Policy Studies, 14(2), 95-97.
a. Key Words assistive technology, disability, technology,
assistive

2. Zhou, L., Ajuwon, P. M., Smith, D. W., Griffin-Shirley, N., Parker,

A. T., & Okungu, P. (2012). Assistive technology competencies
for teachers of students with visual impairments: A national
study. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 106(10), 656665.
a. Key Words - assistive technology, disability, technology,
assistive

I utilized the CCBCs library in their article database to find

these two articles. I chose this database due to the fact that it
supplies me with accurate creditable information about any topic
that I research.

Assignment 1: Information Literacy

Kenneth Glenn 2nd

Bibliography
Article
1. Chichisan, Laura. "Empowerment through Mobile Technology and Codesign." Newsoffice.mit.edu. MIT News, 18 May 2015.

Scholarly Journals

1. Hammond, M. (2003). The utah assistive technology

foundation: Program features and initiatives. Journal of
Disability Policy Studies, 14(2), 95-97.

2. Zhou, L., Ajuwon, P. M., Smith, D. W., Griffin-Shirley, N., Parker,

A. T., & Okungu, P. (2012). Assistive technology competencies
for teachers of students with visual impairments: A national
study. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 106(10), 656665.

Internet Articles

1. Dalton, E. M., & Roush, S. E. (2010). Assistive and educational

technology standards and teacher competencies in relation to
evidence-based practice: Identification and classification of the
literature. Journal of Special Education Technology,25(2), 13-30.

2. Lewis, R. B. (1998). Assistive technology and learning disabilities:

Today's realities and tomorrow's promises. Journal of Learning
Disabilities, 31(1), 16-26, 54.