ATTENTION ISSUES & LEARNING STYLES
ATTENTION ISSUES & LEARNING STYLES
Stories that involve people who are easily distracted and have issues filtering outside influences.
Stories that involve a need for a flexible learning environment and process
Mack, Christian, Caitlin
TEACHER TOOLS (Caitlin)
TEACHER TOOLS (Caitlin)
- Provide discreet feedback to student
- Set goals for students
- Track student progress
- Use data for future reference
- Interact with the data.. to be able to see more or less detail through GUI
- Understand strengths and weaknesses
- Initiating executive functions: attention, organization, initiating tasks, focusing on tasks, regulating emotions, and self-monitoring
- Tracking executive functions: attention, organization, initiating tasks, focusing on tasks, regulating emotions, and self-monitoring
TOOLS FOR SELF-TEACHING (Caitlin)
TOOLS FOR SELF-TEACHING (Caitlin)
- Set personal goals
- Track tasks and due dates
- input by students
- input by teachers
- Keep track of progress
- Ability to share data with instructors, parents and/or mentor. But only with those I want to share it with
TOOLS FOR MENTORING (Caitlin)
TOOLS FOR MENTORING (Caitlin)
- Receive feedback and rewards from teacher
- Communicate needs to teacher
- Receive rewards/feedback to fellow students
- Give rewards/feedback to fellow students
SENSORY INPUT MANAGEMENT (Mack)
SENSORY INPUT MANAGEMENT (Mack)
- Will control audio input volume
- Will add audio white noise
- Will provide other visual input adjustability
- Will provide fidgeting capability
CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL TOOLBOXES FOR DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES (Mack)
CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL TOOLBOXES FOR DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES (Mack)
- Mack's focusing glasses
- Tbd
TIME & TASK MANAGEMENT (Mack)
TIME & TASK MANAGEMENT (Mack)
- Tbd
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
- It will be useful for everyone.... at minimum as a health and fitness tracker and other daily life aids (like time management and scheduling)
- Everyone will want to use it and there will be no stigma attached to it.
- It will employ accessibility design principles
SUPERVISED/CONTROLLED AUTONOMY (Christian)
SUPERVISED/CONTROLLED AUTONOMY (Christian)
- Tbd
SPACE & TECH WORKING TOGETHER (Christian)
SPACE & TECH WORKING TOGETHER (Christian)
- Multiple Function Layouts
- Classroom
- Cafeteria
- Bus
- Playground
- Hallway
BULLYING
BULLYING
Stories that involve physical and emotional bullying
Lucas, Caitlyn, Shawna
TEACHER'S ABILITY TO TRACK BULLYING (Caitlyn)
TEACHER'S ABILITY TO TRACK BULLYING (Caitlyn)
- Will understand possible interpersonal personal causes and effects by analyzing data
- Counselor will be able to analyze data and combine it with other assessment tools for Applied Behavioral Analysis.
DISCREET & IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION (Lucas)
DISCREET & IMMEDIATE COMMUNICATION (Lucas)
- Wants and needs will be communicated to teachers and aids
- Will prevent over-communication of wants and needs to teachers and aids
DIGITAL TRACKING, PROXIMITY & PHYSICAL DATA (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, other?) (Caitlyn)
DIGITAL TRACKING, PROXIMITY & PHYSICAL DATA (heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, other?) (Caitlyn)
- Value will trump privacy concerns
- Privacy will be managed
- Data will be available to teachers and aids in real time
- Data will be stored and accessible across multiple devices
- Software will provide data analysis for teachers, aids and parents
- We're talking about integrating the functionality of fitness apps, mood tracker apps and proximity sensors. Students, teachers, and parents can use the data to understand the relationships between:
- Student's interactions with each other (proximity sensor)
- Stress (captured with vital signs like blood pressure, body temperature & heart rate)
- Mood (manual input by the students)
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
- It will be useful for everyone.... at minimum as a health and fitness tracker and other daily life aids (like time management and scheduling)
- Everyone will want to use it and there will be no stigma attached to it.
- It will employ accessibility design principles
SAFE PLACE (Shawna)
SAFE PLACE (Shawna)
- Will create a safe place relationships for bullies... that will convert them to non-bullies.
- Bullies are often people that do not have an emotionally grounded and safe place in their lives. They may be emotionally ignored or abused and they may be physically abused. Bullying becomes their safe place. If life seems threatening or risky to them... they have no safe harbor. They solve this dilemma by becoming the threat.
- Can facilitate restorative practices without shaming
PREVENT INCREASED BULLYING OPPORTUNITIES (Shawna)
PREVENT INCREASED BULLYING OPPORTUNITIES (Shawna)
- Tbd
SELF IMAGE/ESTEEM, DISCONNECTION & MEDIA REPRESENTATION
SELF IMAGE/ESTEEM, DISCONNECTION & MEDIA REPRESENTATION
Stories that involve people with social and personal anxieties that effect their sense of self.
Stories that involve a feeling of separation from students and teachers.
Sean, Kristin, Brittany,
PROFILING (Sean)
PROFILING (Sean)
- Will enable students and teachers to build an individualized profile that includes public and personal information.
- Everyone will have a profile and that may de-stigmatize student needs.
- Will allow students and teachers to use the public profile information to find like-minded students that can initiate friendships (like a dating app).
DE-STIGMATIZE NEURODIVERSITY & SOCIAL CLIQUES (Sean)
DE-STIGMATIZE NEURODIVERSITY & SOCIAL CLIQUES (Sean)
- Will create new narratives that replace the media stereotypes.
- Equalize and empower social clicks through self labeling ("owning it").
COST
COST
- It will be equally accessible to every student through subsidies.
- It will not be an open platform that allows third party ad-ons... that might provide advantages to some students that others cannot afford.
BUILDING CONFIDENCE (Sean)
BUILDING CONFIDENCE (Sean)
- Will provide leadership opportunities for "non-leaders" because they could be matched tutor students whose weaknesses match up to their strengths.
- Will build confidence through the public profiling of student's best traits (self- labeling).
- The ability for students to customize designs will provide opportunities to advertise interests and fid those that share their interests.
- Will facilitate a tribal classroom. (more on tribal classrooms).
DISCREET COMMUNICATION (Kristin)
DISCREET COMMUNICATION (Kristin)
- Allows students to communicate needs without calling attention to themselves
- Facilitates classroom management, without shame or attention-enabling, through discreet messaging.
EXPRESSING EMOTIONS (Kristin)
EXPRESSING EMOTIONS (Kristin)
- Will help neurodiverse students express their emotions using subtle but accessible queues.
- Will help neurodiverse students not overcompensate emotionally by making others emotions available to them by using subtle but accessible queues.
AVOID INCREASING BULLYING OPPORTUNITIES (Kristin)
AVOID INCREASING BULLYING OPPORTUNITIES (Kristin)
- Tbd
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
UNIVERSAL DESIGN (Everyone)
- It will be useful for everyone.... at minimum as a health and fitness tracker and other daily life aids (like time management and scheduling)
- Everyone will want to use it and there will be no stigma attached to it.
- It will employ accessibility design principles
SPACE & TECH WORKING TOGETHER (Britanny)
SPACE & TECH WORKING TOGETHER (Britanny)
- Will break communication barriers in social (game) situations
- Will be interchangeable and modular
- Will integrate tribal - Attachment-Based teaching
GAMIFICATION (Brittany)
GAMIFICATION (Brittany)
- LARPs.
- Geocaching.
- Scavenger hunt.
WEARABILITY (Brittany)
WEARABILITY (Brittany)
- Be stylish and appealing
- Make a statement
- Customize to my lifestyle
- Comfort (adjustability)