Some Ideas To Apply Technology in the inclusive classroom

According to Marie Delaney, SEN is related to "Students that have special educational needs if they have significant greater difficulty in learning than the majority of the students of the same age and special educational provisions has to be made for them".

WHAT IS AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM:

An inclusive classroom is a general education classroom where students with and without learning differences learn together. Inclusive classrooms are welcoming and support the diverse academic, social, emotional, and communication needs of all students. Learn more about what inclusion is, how it can benefit all learners, and how to implement an inclusion program in your classroom and school-wide.

ARTutor:

AUGMENTED REALITY

It is an augmented reality platform for Education and more.
It is free of cost to all the educators and students around the globe.
It is available in Google Play and IOS store (Apple platform).

The main impact of ARTutor in the field of education:

It enables teachers with limited IT skills to develop AR books.
Maximize students’ engagement to educational materials.
The implementation of a single mobile application enables students to access all the AR books to promote independent and distance learning.
Easy interaction with digital content of any book haptic or voice command to assist students with movement disabilities.
Integration with AI services.

IT CAN BE USED:

In publishing In education In marketing In museums

Training Treasure hunt Escape room

THE CONTENT THAT CAN BE AUGMENTED:

Images Sounds Videos Youtube videos 3D model URL links

HOW TO CREATE AR:

Create an AR Experience in the Web platform.

Use, sounds and models to add augmentations to each AR Experience editor to make complex and s

STEP 1

STEP 2

Create an AR experience in the ARTutor Web platform using images, videos, sounds and models to add augmentation to each scene. Use AR experience editor to make complex an inteactive scenes.

STEP 3

View the AR experience using ARTutor mobile application and share it with everyone. No registration is needed in the mobile application.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITY:

Teacher divides the class into groups. Every group has to find paragraphs on the walls all around the classroom using ARTutor. There will be 10 paragraphs hidden on the walls. When they finish finding them, they have to put them in order to get a meaninful story. As the plataform has easy interaction with digital content in a haptic or voice command, it can assist learners with movement disabilities.

What is dislexia?

Dislexia is an information processing difficulty which primarly affects reading, spelling and writing. Learners will tipically have problems with phonological processing ( linking sounds to words), visual processing (seeing words and letters), and working memory (remembering what has just being said. They may also have problems with organization, sequencing and number skills. (Marie Delaney)

A toolkit to facilitate reading for people with dyslexia.

Make reading online easier with this extension.

This extension offers different options to simplify text reading :

🔹 Use of a font made for dyslexics (Open Dyslexic)

🔹 Use of a mask to maximize concentration on a portion of text

🔹 Left alignment of the text

WHAT ABOUT THIS TOOL:

Predict words in order to help create messages to be sent by phone, email or through social networks.
It offers a digital overlay for reading text through a color screen, as the use of these overlays that modify color and font are useful for some readers with dyslexia or who suffer from visual stress.
It has a digital document reader, which takes photographs of texts and is capable of reading them aloud.
Reference assistant that helps differentiate right from left.
Offers customizable colors and fonts
Voice dictation
QR reading tool with automatic settings

HOW TO USE DYSLEXIA TOOLBOX:

This tool is simple and easy to use. It is necessary to click on add to Chrome and go to extensions to choose the one that the user needs.

SUGGESTED ACTIVITY:

TEACHER DIVIDES THE CLASS IN GROUPS OF FIVE. EVERY GROUP WILL CHOOSE A REGION OF OUR COUNTRY TO WRITE ABOUT:

Northwest.
Chaco Region.
Mesopotamia.
Cuyo.
Sierras pampeanas.
Pampas.
Dry Pampas.
Patagonia.

THEY WILL OPEN A COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENT IN WHICH EVERY LEARNER WILL CHOOSE A TOPIC TO LOOK INTO:

Geography
Climate
Plants and animals
Most important cities and monuments
Most important commercial resources

Dyslexia toolbox will be use if students with special needs (SEN) will need it.

References:

Delaney, M. (2016, April 14). special educational needs (oup oxford, Ed.) [Review of special educational needs].

‌Tsinakos, A. (2021). ARTutor: An Augmented Reality Platform For Education And More. . . eLearning Industry. https://elearningindustry.com/augmented-reality-platform-for-education-artutor

Dyslexia toolbox. (n.d.). Chrome Web Store. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dyslexia-toolbox/gpjbfckicpmdjmhgcjoecomooejngkam?hl=es

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