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Inclusive Learning Through Technology

Damian Gordon

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Contents

Module Description Module Aim Learning Outcomes Module Content Module Assessment Recommended Reading

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Module Description (1/2)

The goal of education is to develop within each individual the desire and the ability to learn. Technology can provide a means by which all learners are afforded an environment where they can pursue their learning process in ubiquitous and unobstructed manner. Typically the view of how this is achieved is that for some students this means providing them with the appropriate eLearning technologies to achieve this goal, and for others with special needs this may require additional assistive technologies (“technology ramps”) to achieve this.

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Module Description (2/2)

Increasingly, the gap between what constitutes an eLearning technology and an assistive technology is consistently diminishing, e.g. Virtual Learning Environments were developed as an eLearning technology but have significant benefits and potential for learners across the continuum of degrees of ability.

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Module Aim

The aim of this module is to identify a technology continuum upon which both eLearning tools and Assistive Technology exist, and to develop ways in which eLearning tools can be used in the context of Assistive Technology, and how Assistive Technology can be used in the context of eLearning.

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Learning Outcomes

1. Discuss the history of education and the main theories of learning2. Select and employ the learning theories for a specific AT context3. Justify the use of learning theory in the development of eLearning

systems4. Illustrate commonalities between eLearning tools and Assistive

Technologies5. Select and employ the appropriate adaptive or augmentative device

for interfacing to an eLearning tool6. Implement a novel application that integrates eLearning and

Assistive Technologies7. Compare and contrast traditional eLearning approaches to Assistive

Technology approaches

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Module Content

Teaching & Learning– The History of Education– Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism– Pedagogy– Instructional Design– Differentiated Instruction– Creativity and Critical Thinking– Counselling Theory

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Module Content

Technology Terminology – Etymology of technology– Low-Tech, Medium-Tech, High-Tech

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Module Content

eLearning Tools– Computers– The World-Wide Web– Virtual Learning Environments– Blended Learning – New Technologies

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Module Content

Interfacing Issues– Specific Learning Difficulties– Cognitive Issues

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Module Content

Assistive Technology– Specialized Interfaces– Augmentative Alternative Communication– Switch Access– New Technologies

Legal, Ethical, and Professional issues

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Module Assessment

Continuous assessment will comprise 50% of the marks for this module. An end of module examination will comprise the remaining 50%.

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Recommended Reading

Papers will be given throughout the classes.

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BREAK

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Exercise

Spend a few minutes writing down ideas as examples of technology that could be seen as the intersection of eLearning and AT.

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“90% of errors in thinking are errors in perception not judgement” David Perkins, Harvard

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What do you see ?

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Universities

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Behaviourism

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Cognitivism

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Constructivism

Lev Semenovich Vygotsky John Dewey

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POP QUIZ

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POP QUIZ

1. On average do students prefer to work alone or in groups?

a) in groups

b) alone

c) dunno

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POP QUIZ

1. On average do students prefer to work alone or in groups?

a) in groups +1

b) alone -1

c) dunno 0

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POP QUIZ

2. Is it better for students to work collaboratively or competitively?

a) collaboratively

b) competitively

c) Equally good for their learning

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POP QUIZ

2. Is it better for students to work collaboratively or competitively?

a) collaboratively +1

b) competitively -1

c) Equally good for their learning 0

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POP QUIZ

3. Do students learn better if you offer a small reward?

a) Yes

b) No

c) dunno

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POP QUIZ

3. Do students learn better if you offer a small reward?

a) Yes -1

b) No +1

c) dunno 0

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POP QUIZ

4. Which is better, detailed feedback 3 weeks after an assignment in handed up, or a % result one week later?

a) Feedback

b) Percentage

c) dunno

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POP QUIZ

4. Which is better, detailed feedback 3 weeks after an assignment in handed up, or a % result one week later?

a) Feedback -1

b) Percentage +1

c) dunno 0

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POP QUIZ

5. How soon after a lecture starts will a student’s attention tend to drift?

a) 10 mins

b) 20 mins

c) 40 mins

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POP QUIZ

5. How soon after a lecture starts will a student’s attention tend to drift?

a) 10 mins +1

b) 20 mins 0

c) 40 mins -1

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Thank You