I’ve just returned from the Critical Agenda’s Annual Conference “Supporting Students with Special Needs”.
One of the workshops I went to was presented by Megan Iemma (@megsamanda), focusing on using ICT in the Special Needs classroom. Megan presented us with a large range of different websites and apps that (I thought) were for students to use in the classroom. However as I listened more, I realised that a lot of these tools were for teachers to use in the planning stage of their lessons and that sometimes the students would benefit from the technology without actually using the technology themselves. I was particularly focused on the literary/dyslexia side of things.
Examples of these include:
Megan’s workshop really made me think about how I use technology in the classroom and that sometimes the biggest advantage for the students is when the teacher has used technology to differentiate the learning task.
What sorts of apps/programs do you use to help differentiate tasks for students?
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I can see that these will be great for my EALD students and younger classes. Thank you for sharing these Fiona. I will definitely give them a go
Great to see you have reflected from last week. Sometimes it’s about looking at the students needs and building from the bottom up. The other problem I also find is that a lot of apps can be primary focused and not much designed for secondary SN