A School Leader’s Guide to Inclusive Technologies to Support Students with Disabilities:...

A School Leader’s Guide to Inclusive Technologies to

Support Students with Disabilities:

Implementing Disruptive Innovations

Greg O’ConnorEducation Services Manager, Spectronics

Barriers to Learning & Opportunity

“impaired access, participation and progress throughout the curriculum”

One size fits all?

Differentiation

Universal Design for LearningMultiple Means of

• Representation

• Action and Expression

• Engagement

Using technology to remediate or compensate for difficulties

PDF can be downloaded from www.futurelab.org.uk

E-inclusion: Learning Difficulties and Digital Technologies

Chris Abbott

2007

three key technology-related shifts are underway

Critical Decisions •Assessment

and •Setting Options•Content management & editing

tools•Data Tracking•Sources for quality app reviews

Introduction to the iPad

•The iPad•Accessibility•The Classroom

iPad Resources

www.spectronicsinoz.com/blog/apple

It Can’t Teach

The iPad

iTunes

Accessibility

•Settings•Pointers, keyboards & keyguards •App embedded assistive technology•Switch access•Assessment

Switch Access

Switch Box

by Therapy Box

Blue2 Bluetooth Switch

By AbleNet

The Classroom

Management

Bretford PowerSync Cart for iPad

By Apple

Accessories

Accessories

Teaching and Learning

Assistive Technology

•Communication / AAC•Visual Supports

Curriculum

•Reading•Writing•Numeracy•Creative Arts

Implications

Disruptive Innovation

SOS

Implications

lack of integration into curriculum

Implications

• Paradox

• Acceptance

• Training

• Assessment

• Revisit SETT to review changing curriculum access needs

• Management plan

• Successful inclusion (teaching) requires differentiation

• Teachers reluctant to change• Differentiation requires expertise,

planning and preparation(Shaddock 2006)

Implications

What facilitates changes to teaching?

Teachers• Possible

Principals• Provide planning, collaboration and reflection

System• Practical, content-relevant professional development

(Shaddock 2006)

Implications

Piano Stairs

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