I’ve been thinking… how do we make different alternative texts accessible to students with disabilities in our social studies classrooms? By alternative texts I mean internet sources, videos, sound clips to those who are hearing impaired or blind?
Social Studies is not just a class – it can come to life through the media we use to present history, society and the world, therefore materials for teaching are getting much more complicated in terms of presenting them to the class.
What difficulties will arise when teaching students with special needs in our classrooms? How can we address it?
There’s a GREAT website of Adaptive Technology Resource Centre in University of Toronto. The article was about motivating high school students in learning and becoming a part of media and broadcast industry. Most of the students want to make a difference, to determine their ability in terms of influence on the society, and the project I was interested in inventing different technologies to make media accessible to special needs people. The program is called SNOW - Special Needs Ontario Window. That's one of the examples of how we can connect learning with real life challenges. Here I will try to make a link.
www.snow.utoronto.ca (cultivating Ontario’s inclusive education community)
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