Goal/Idea/Objective: How can the iPad benefit students with special needs? Can the teachers incorporate the use of the iPad into the curriculum to help benefit the students with special needs? Will the students be able to become more successful with the iPad, such as the students that are non-verbal? Could this be correlated into the students home to allow them to become more successful?
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Action Plan
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Action Steps
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Person Responsible
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Timeline: Start/End
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Needed Resources
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Evaluation
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Introduce some students to the iPads
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Lori Dyess
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May 2012/
Dec. 2012
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iPads and assistance from teachers and paraprofessionals
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When we start to see the students use the iPads on their own successfully.
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Have non-verbal students work with iPads
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Lori Dyess
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January 2013/ May 2013
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iPads and assistance from teachers and paraprofessionals, specified apps.
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Find if there was any improvement in social and educational situations.
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Have some students work with iPads on their own
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Lori Dyess
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January 2013/ May 2013
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iPads and assistance from teachers and paraprofessionals, specified apps.
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Find if there was any improvement in social and educational situations.
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I have a legally blind student in my classroom and she loves when her braile teacher lets her use the ipad because she can enlarge as much as she needs to to see with the little vision she has left. I think Ipads are a wonderful tool for special need students. Great topic!
ReplyDeleteI have seen documentaries on the use of ipads with nonverbal children and its success. What apps do you plan to use? You might consider adding the particular apps into your research plan. I follow TCEA on twitter and they post daily the apps that are free for that day. Even though apps for nonverbal learning may be expensive, they often go "on sale" for free for a day. April is a good month to watch for them, since it is Autism Awareness Month. There are many apps from ADA that are free, and those that are not may go on sale. The receptive language apps are great. I wish you the best of luck on your project!
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ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea that of yours. I-Pads to help students with special needs. Think about the endless opportunities: visuals, audio, dynamic activities, colors, etc. It would be wise if you add an approximate cost of the equipment you will need to your plan, so that you can start thinking in the allocation of resources and the source of those resources.
I would love to know how your research works out. I have a nephew who is Autistic and would greatly benefit from this type of instruction. I will follow your research plan to get ideas to pass on to my nephew as his school district has just implemented the use of iPads for all students. best of luck!
ReplyDeleteI recently facilitated an afterschool program class that uses untraditional means to host tutorials. We used a math quiz app as a warm up, but it went so well, we let the students work with it a little longer. All it is is an app that looks like a green chalkboard with simple math problems on it. You can choose if you want to just do addition or subtraction or division or addition or all of the above. I thought they would hate and complain, but since it was present on individual iPads, they liked it. Go figure, right?! Good luck in your research. You should have good findings:)
ReplyDeleteI like your topic! There is a big push here at WHS to incorporate personal technology in our classrooms to include not only iPads but student's smartphones. I know technology is a huge benefit to my Deaf students as it allows them quick access to information just by looking up information on their cell phones. In what ways do you forsee incorporating iPads into the curriculum? I love the idea and think our special needs students are less disabled by their ability to navigate online. Great project topic!
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