Derek Landini:
http://gspotblogspotblogspotblogspotblogspot.blogspot.com/2011/01/paper-reading-4-role-of-tangible.html
Reference Information:
Title: The role of tangible technologies for special education
Author: Taciana Pontual Falcão
Presentation Venue: CHI EA '10 Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems
Summary:
This paper dealt with the topic of using tangible objects to help in the education of special needs children. With the advent of the computer age, many of the tangible teaching methods have migrated to the digital realm and the computer screen. Previously, tangible teaching techniques had been useful in providing rich, multisensory avenues for special needs children to learn. At this time, there are not many similar methods employed in the digital realm.
The researchers have the intention of creating new tangible teaching techniques to be of assistance to special needs children. One thing they wish to determines is to what extent these tangibles have in creating collaboration between other special needs children. They also want to determine how the use of tangibles affect the responses of the special needs children.
Discussion:
I think that this is a very good area of research to pursue. There are many special needs children who could benefit from the benefits of the tangible technology and I think it could potentially act as a bridge to help them achieve an improvement in the overall quality of their life.
I have experience helping special needs kids and I have seen how they behave and react in many different situations. It seems that there is a lot of potential this research could provide them. I am interested to know the final results discovered by this research.
No comments:
Post a Comment