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There are quite a few adaptive technologies for students with special needs or disabilities. For children who maybe are not able to hand write things due to their disability, there are alternate technologies available for them to be able to complete their work. Another part of adaptive technology is a word processing such as spell check and grammar check which helps students who might see writing as a very difficult task. Word prediction also is a very efficient tool to help students so they don't have to spell out the entire word. One that I've seen first hand is speak to talk which is where people can speak and it types as you talk. One guy in my class in high school was almost fully blind and it was hard for him to type so he would speak out his papers and his laptop would type it all out for him. There are for sure going to be challenges with any type of adaptive technology but I haven't seen any first hand.

Powerpoint is a very good and useful tool to use in the classroom. Supporting student learning at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy with powerpoint would make learning way easier. The first creating would be for creating something new. Evaluating would be to examine info and analyzing would be organizing and categorizing. In a powerpoint you can apply by making a diagram or a chart. Understanding is when you interpret or summarize the information in the powerpoint and remembering is when you find and remember information for you powerpoint.

http://www.edudemic.com/classroom-technology-in-2017/

This article talks about future technology and about the biggest trends in technology. This is a really good website because it talks about technology in the past, the present, and the future. And it also talks about the technology that most likely won't happen.

(my article wouldn't upload as a screenshot for some reason)