1 / 53

An educational Web-portal

An educational Web-portal. New opportunities for Visually Impaired Students. Educational institutes for special education cluster 1. Sensis, Grave Bartiméus, Zeist Visio, Huizen Kennisnet ICT at School. Special Education. Special Education. Special Education. Special Education.

zed
Download Presentation

An educational Web-portal

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. An educational Web-portal New opportunities for Visually Impaired Students

  2. Educational institutes for special education cluster 1 • Sensis, Grave • Bartiméus, Zeist • Visio, Huizen • Kennisnet ICT at School

  3. Special Education

  4. Special Education

  5. Special Education

  6. Special Education

  7. Special Education

  8. Special Education

  9. Special Education • Concentration of pupils with the same disability • Teachers with disability-specific experience • Wealth of disability-specific information and instruction material • Whole environment tuned to teach visually disabled pupils

  10. Integration in mainstream education • 75% of pupils in mainstream education • 75 peripatetic teachers (special school teachers) • Peripatetic teachers tend to be general teachers • Mainstream setting with mainstream educational material

  11. Goal of eduVIP • Maintaining / restoring the special educational environment for our visually impaired students • By means of webbased educational information and instruction material and applications

  12. Target groups of eduVIP • Peripatetic teachers of visually impaired pupils/students • Teachers in Special Education • Teachers in Mainstream Education • Pupils/students with a visual impairment

  13. Divisions of eduVIP • ICT courses for VIPs • Touch-Typing course for VIPs • Additional education material for VIPs • Visual training courses for VIPs • Didactic information for teachers

  14. What can be retrieved from eduVIP • Everything that can be produced in a digital format • ICT courses for Windows, Word, Excel etc. • Didactic information for teachers per subject and school type

  15. What can be retrieved from eduVIP • Images, ready to produce tactile material • Special Software applications • Laws and regulations • Information about the visual system and visual perception

  16. Scenarios • PS5 introduction to writing • BL5 reading and writing Braille (Dynamic Braille Project)

  17. Scenarios • BL8 Getting a computer with assistive technology (Braille & Speech)- How a blind person uses a computer- How to teach Touch-typing - How to teach a blind computer user Windows and Word etc…

  18. Job • First IT training

  19. Specs Touch-Typing program • Full curriculum • Webbased • Webbased tracking of results/progress

  20. Scenarios • PS8 Visual stimulation and training

  21. Kijktraining

  22. Kijktraining

  23. Kijktraining

  24. Specs visual training program • Many different exercises • Application adapts to level of pupil • Based on ‘Inzicht’ specifications (scientific research results) • Based on ‘Kijkdoos’ a successful existing program for visual training

  25. Scenarios • PS10 and BL10 Should use a calculator • PS10 and BL10 Should use an agenda to keep track of homework, projects etc..

  26. Scenarios • PS12 and BL12 Understanding maths • BL16 Making and presenting PowerPoint presentations

  27. Specific Teaching material

  28. Clear drawings Prepared for making tactile material

  29. Scenarios • School management needs to know what extra money the school can obtain for a blind student (in secondary education) • Teacher needs to know what it means to have ‘Diabetes Mellitus’, ‘Astigmatisme’ etc., and what the consequences are in regard to learning

  30. eduVIP • Digital support for the education of the visually impaired • Support for teachers and students • Support for specialist and mainstream education • Communication between teachers • And more…

  31. End of eduVIP presentation

  32. Dynamic Braille Project The development of an educational computer program for the teaching of Braille • Based on the use of (synthetic) Speech and refreshable Braille • For young children and mature learners

  33. Reasons / necessities to seek other methods of teaching • Change of educational visions • Change of educational settings • Change of learning strategies • Change of technical possibilities

  34. Change of educational visions • E-learning holds the future • Inclusion is the way (WSNS together at school again) • The start of paperless schools in the Netherlands • From 2010 all exams computerised • Society is changing and VI pupils too (networking, gaming, self discovery and challenging)

  35. Change of educational settings • Integrated versus special education (75% of visually impaired pupils are integrated) • Peripatetic teachers are increasingly trained as general teachers • More teaching by general (mainstream) teachers

  36. Change of educational strategies • Independent • Peer to peer (communication) • Technological • Flexible • Request based • Attractive

  37. Change of technical possibilities • Computers in education • Network facilities in all schools • Availability of assistive technology for schools and students

  38. Existing Winbraille project • Used in practice for some years (DOS/Win) • At the least a good ‘Proof of concept’ • Teacher-oriented • Not user (teacher) friendly • But still…

  39. Dynamic Braille Project • Full ‘PC’ features available for an educational program • Universally usable with current equipment Good possibilities for independent learning • Compatible with current mainstream IT hardware and teacher skills • Possibilities to provide complete curriculum for learning and teaching Braille

  40. Specs Dynamic Braille • Works with as many different Braille displays as possible • Consist of instructions, exercises and games

More Related