Hi everyone,
I have one class with 34 students, age 14-15. Their levels differ very much, and some of them have some kind of autism disability. Their results are mostly bad. Do uou have any experience in dealing with these problems? Can I use ICT, as they all have an Ipad?l Any suggestions?
Sincerely,
Bob
Bob van Limburg I have more questions than answers. The iPad can play a part of course, but: 1. What are their interests? What do they want to learn? Are they willing to work as a group? What do they need to feel comfortable as each individual in the group? Even in a group with students with different disorders everything starts with building relations with each other.
How well do they know each other? How well do the teachers know each youth? What are they good at? There is a lot of energy to gather from starting with the students skills.
Do more of what they are good at. Find out more about what are their needs, interests, passions, wishes and dreams. This is the best starting point for development. Make a contract with the class how they want it to function. Make learning pairs and let them work together. When they start to tell you what they want, need, are interested in, wish for, are passionate about and dream to achieve ask them further how what they are willing to do to get there. Ask them to commit and use the energy of this knowledge to make an arena were the curriculum can meet the students interests, passions and needs.
Remember; to learn is to discover for oneself and to master is to do for oneself. We are talking about teachers facilitating and making it possible for the students to empower themselves - also the ones with autism. The iPad is just a tool in all this. A very good tool, with a lot of possibilities. YouTube is one of many wonderful tools within the iPad, but is useless without direction. I have written an article about the use of iPad with people with intellectual disabilities than can neither read nor write. If you look on my profile you will find a full text version. I also recommend the wonderful work of Dr. Sugata Mitra (here on RG - and TedTalk) and how he gets groups of children to make learning groups together with technology. I wish you the very best of luck in this important challenge. I believe and have experience with that it is possible to make a change.
Thank you very much kjartan. This is a very useful answer. Sincerely, Bob
As technology a best solution and Ipad is a best tool as well so I thought it will be benificial. The main hinderance in learning of diverse needs students is verbl mode of instructions. Well planed activities with help of Ipad will provide visual stimulation which enhance learning.
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