Assistive Technology

Hello, today we'll be learning about Gabriel Silva and his a

phd difficulties at school.

We'll be learning about a tools,

Google suite apps and an

tech tool that will benefit Gabriel at school.

And lastly, we'll discuss the importance of assistive and educational technology

in general.

So first we'll be discussing who Gabriel Silva is

and what are his um

strengths and what are his disadvantages?

Um Gabriel Silva

is a second grade boy that has a DH D he's full of energy.

He is outgoing, he's friendly, he's talkative.

He, he wants to have audience all the time.

Um

and

be a leader.

He in recess, he runs out of the classroom because he was sitting for too long.

Um He excels in every game

at recess and he is uh as mentioned, he's a role model.

So he is, he, he, he wants to be a leader. He wants to organize games and

um even when it's time to go back in school in the classroom, he's the last to come.

He keeps playing at the playground and once a teacher finally pulls him back in,

he runs like a bullet to the to be first in line to get inside. He is,

he has a lot of energy

problem is, um,

in the classroom it is, um, he cannot keep up with the work. Meaning

he's

advantage is that he, he does have the skills for reading and math and,

and he, he, he, he can learn,

but the disadvantage is that he's very unorganized

and his papers are all over the place

and

he doesn't turn in his work.

So his skills seem to be, um, around grade level,

but he fails to turn in all his, his complete work, which, um,

he is a problem in school. Um,

he, uh,

he seems interested in learning but he is

very easily distracted which stops him from,

um, from learning at times.

Um,

he could, um,

start a page but then jump up, talk to a friend pull toys

and, um, and his desk is very messy.

So he, even if he tries to find something when the teacher comes over,

um,

he, he just forgot what he was trying to do.

So,

being forgetful and this organized really, um,

stops him from, um, prevents him from, from excelling in school.

Um, the teacher sees a lot of papers, uh, and a mess on his, on his desk and, um,

sometimes when he takes home

the

takes work home, he can, um, he can finish it better but he completes most of it. But

again, um,

he, he doesn't give, he forgets to give it to the teacher.

So his teacher always finds over past due assignments on his desk.

So, um again, being forgetful and disorganized and having a lot of energy,

um

really uh hurts him in excelling in, in, in academically.

Um But again,

his advan advantages are that he's very friendly and he's outgoing

and he has the skills and he wants to learn.

Um So next, we'll be discussing

of some ways that we, that can help him excel in school

one way to excel at school um

is to help him with assistant technology tools.

And uh examples of those tools would be

um seat cushion,

which is a very um

it's a, it's, it's a wobbly seat that he can sit on and that will help him

um move around in his seat and channel his energy towards the seat.

Um and maybe be able to

um listen to the teacher better and learn

and not instead of leaning over and talking to friends. Um that might help him.

And the second uh tool would be text to speech and speech to text

um which might help him

um

focus on a screen

and

type

and ta talk to type

and um you know, the the the text will talk to him and that might might engage him

to uh continue studying that way.

Um

Another way that can help him would be uh Google Suite

apps.

Um

One of them is the Google Jam Board

where he can uh doodle

and interact and communicate, communicate with his teacher

and his teacher could leave him sticky notes and he could leave her.

Um He can even record, he,

she can teach him how to record his screen while uh they interact that way.

And um he can leave her uh audio messages talking to her that might again engage him

to um interact and, and work with her teacher in, in,

in the same way for the teacher to work and um

make him more interested in understanding in

a different way of communicating with him.

And the second thing is the Google calendar, which they can both share

and she can show him um due dates that he has for each assignments

and she can even bring the calendar into jam board.

Uh if needed, if, if that, well,

if that seemed to help him better and help him follow up that way, you know, through

audio, through um video recordings, through different uh tech tools,

engage him in understanding and remembering and sticky notes and

remembering to um

to, to make it to, to his, his goals, his due dates

and to have less paper, maybe that will, that will help too.

Uh Seems he doesn't, he doesn't seem like he can

follow up with, with giving in his work. And

um

even even with tech tools, I mean, he will, he will need to be reminded to turn in.

Um

But I think bringing tech into the classroom will help him,

which bring us to the next thing.

Um I believe that uh gamify learning tools and there are so many of them,

but for example, quizzes and puzzle,

it will help him

a lot. By first of all, he doesn't need to turn in.

It's, it, it's, it assesses his abilities immediately. So,

uh it says one step and um, it's, it's a very engaging and fun way to learn,

especially for, for a kid like him that he wants to just run around.

Maybe he can, she can bring, he loves soccer so he can bring

uh soccer into the, into the, into the picture and, and, and engage him that way

and learning and uh again with the calendar and

uh different different ways of engaging him in,

in and making it to due dates,

it will help him um succeed in school, hopefully,

which brings us to the last uh topic of the day,

the importance of assistive and education technology.

Um

having educational technology

in the classroom.

Uh assistive technology specifically is um is great for um kids with disabilities,

with different disabilities. Um assistive technology can, can save a kid some time

um from, from not being able to learn at all and being in an in a classroom environment

um

to being able to participate like the rest of the class,

which is grand for those kids.

And educational technology is very important because it could be

um engaging for some kids, the Visu, the

Visu

vis

visual

um

uh gifts and,

and all the, like, let's say, for a DH

D specifically, again, as we're talking about Gabriel having

something um

like whiteboard dot chat,

having this snowing all of a sudden and getting their attention.

Um having them communicate without typing.

They, they don't have patience to sit down, they want to quickly record an audio on

uh Palet, let's say,

or just screen record what they do to explain

to their teacher what they're doing on uh screen cast

um using again. Uh There are so many voice recording options using

V

voice note notes or just different uh recording audio recording on,

on different platforms

are great for these kids.

Um

And it's very engaging,

making uh making lessons with the whole class collaborating together,

whether it's remote or

in person

um is great and uh each kid can get

uh

individualized attention and feedback and um they,

some groups can work together and

collaborate together through different platforms,

um let's say, through different white boards, uh jam board or

um whatever digital, there are so many digital app, uh white

boards out there,

the teacher can uh give an assignment

uh to the, all the class,

the entire classroom or just uh make few

groups and um have them collaborate together on,

on, on different topics.

Um It just, it's very engaging and great uh way

to get kids attention. And in addition to the other other methods.

Um

having technology is uh education, technology is,

is a great uh way of engaging kids into learning.

Thank you for listening.

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