using ict to support students with mild general learning disabilities
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Using ICT to Support Students
with
Mild General Learning Disabilities
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Professional Development and Support: Why?
• Isolation
• Unique and common problems
• Affirmation
• Pace of change in education
• Policy of integration
• Parental expectations and awareness
• Professionalism
• Educational partnership
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Professional Development and Support: How?
Through the Internet:• Access to expertise/information
• On-line courses
• Chat rooms
• Message Boards
• Mailing lists
• Sharing of resources
Other:• Support groups in education centres
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A special needs teacher may need:
• The facility to individualise teaching and learning materials
• New and exciting ways of learning to motivate students
• Administrative tools to help with planning, record keeping etc.
• What else?
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A student with mild general learning disabilities
• Will have more difficulty learning than other children of the same age
• May need different approaches to learning
• May need to overlearn
• Will need extra reinforcement
• May need extra support in class setting
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Memory Triangle
5%
10%20%
30%
50%
70%
90%
Lecture
Doing a Project Cross Curricular WorkDoing the real thing
Teaching Others
Giving a talkGroup Work
Watching a videoSeeing it done
Seeing/Demo
Hearing
Reading
We remember
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Memory Triangle
• ICT facilitates active teaching methods
5%
10% 20% 30% 50% 70% 90%
Lecture
Doing a Project Cross Curricular Doing the real thing
Teaching Others
Giving a talk Group Work
Watching a video Seeing it done
Seeing/Demo
Hearing
Reading
C o m p u t e r
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Memory Triangle
We remember:
• 10% of what we read
• 50% of what we see and hear
• 90% of what we do
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Common types of ICT use
• Teaching tool
• Learning tool
• Administrative tool
• A source of educational content
• A collaborative tool
• A medium of communication
• A student’s functional aid (assistive technology)
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How ICT can help the teacher
• Facilitates individual instruction
• Facilitates individual learning
• Facilitates provision of additional support in class setting
• Can be used as a source of professional development and support
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How ICT can support students
• Supports basic literacy and numeracy
• Provides structured skills practice
• Facilitates pair / group work
• Facilitates customisation of student’s learning
• ICT can be used as an alternate method of presentation of information
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How ICT can support students
• Combination of ICT and hard-copy programmes
• Range of software that can be selected and matched to students needs
• Talking books to encourage and support reading
• Talking word processor to encourage and support writing
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ICT as a motivator
• View of ICT as entertainment
• Provision of non-threatening environment
• Confers status and confidence
• Can facilitate equality for low-achievers
• Enables communication among peers
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Some interesting software features
• The facility to enable drafting and correcting
• Speech feedback
• Word prediction
• Word banks
• Spell checking
• Control of pace and level of work
• Provision of consistent response
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