Welcome to: “Project Plainview” Instructional Design for Assistive Technology

1. Welcome to:“Project Plainview”Instructional Design for Assistive Technology Presented byJulie CunninghamHVED Assistive Technology Consultant

2. Thank You! Thank You! • Impetus for today’s activity • Input, comments, thoughts welcome • The “Folder”

3. Goal Special education teachers will formulate an assistive technology implementation plan with a student who has writing needs.

4. Objectives • State the purpose of writing tasks • Understand how the student’s disability affects writing • Determine the reason(s) for the student’s difficulty with writing tasks

5. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? • Mandated by law • Research shows that students who use technology for writing will have higher paying jobs, will write better and be successful • To help Julie

6. Early Childhood Group (add images of participants here)

7. (add images of participants here) Elementary Group

8. Secondary Group (add images of participants here)

9. The Floater Group (add images of participants here)

10. Pretest Time

11. *Time to Take Notes

13. How did you do?

14. Purpose Student Writing Tasks To learn to print my name, ABC’s: Motor To show that I know the information:Knowledge To write assignments, calendar: Memory To write sentences, paragraphs, stories: Language Other reasons?

15. *Purpose of WritingMotorLanguageMemoryKnowledge

16. Source: PBS. Misunderstood Minds

17. Why do students struggle with writing? (Source: Mel Levine, All Kinds of Minds) • Graphomotor: • Coordination of small muscles to form letters Signs of writing problems • Hard to form letters • Difficulty manipulating pencil • Grips pencil tightly • Struggles to coordinate small muscles to keep up with flow of ideas.

18. Why do students struggle with writing? • Attention: • Maintain concentration on work Signs of writing problems: • Distracted or fidgety during writing tasks • Loses place when writing • Appears mentally fatigued or overly tired while writing • Is unable to get started on writing assignments • Doesn’t exert effort if topic is not personally interesting

19. Why do students struggle with writing? • Language Production • Using words and forming sentences correctly Signs of writing problems: • Difficulty with word sounds or meaning • Cannot easily spell words - spelled the way they are pronounced • Finds oral expression difficult • Struggles with sentence structure and proper word order • Trouble reading back what is written

20. Why do students struggle with writing? • Higher Order Cognition • Generating ideas and taking steps to plan/revise Signs of writing problems: • Cannot easily generate ideas or elaborate on them in writing • Has difficulty with writing tasks requiring creativity and/or critical thinking • Finds organizing writing tasks difficult

21. *Disability and Writing

22. Posttest Time

23. *Formative Evaluations

24. Thank You Everyone! Dinalynn Kurt