Reference Information:
Title: The Role of Tangible Technologies for Special Education
Author: Taciana Pontual Falcão
Venue: CHI 2010
Summary:
The author first addresses the technological needs of children with learning disabilities. She then discusses how she believes tangibles could be used to help those with special needs. She breaks her work into two pieces. The first is the relationship between tangibles and peer collaboration. The second is effect of tangibles on the main difficulties of children with special needs. She concludes by exploring several aspects that can vary in her research such as participants, learning domain, technologies, and empirical studies.
Discussion:
I truly believe that this work will be a great success when it is actually put in practice. The only problems I had with the article stem from the fact that she has not put this plan into action. She was very general on most topics and there is no real data yet because she has not actually started this work yet. I understand the importance of writing this paper before she has actually started the project, I am just eager to see the results of her work.
I really like these types of projects in their goal of physicality to learning. It reminds me of this ted talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html
ReplyDeleteI agree that this will be some good research once it gets to the testing phase, however i was very upset that there was no real data for us to look at in the study. It would be nice if we had something to comment on.
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