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=Welcome to Day 4!=

Day 4: iPads in Special Education

Subject: Math

Prerequisite Knowledge: The attendee needs to know what an iPad is and to be able to use one with basic skills.

Content:  In this lesson I will be teaching the workshop members about how iPads help students with special needs. We will discuss how iPads help students with fine motor skills because the touch screen is easier than using a mouse (Shah, 2011). Not only do they help with fine motor skills but they also help students with autism, Down syndrome, and deaf students (Shah, 2011).  Once we have established how iPads help students then we can move on to what applications or programs can be used to help these students.

Objectives:  2. The attendees will use iPads in order to find and use resources to help students with special need. How will you teach this lesson:  We will start the workshop by reviewing what was covered in the previous workshop. I will answer questions that the attendees would like to review. Then, we will begin by discussing how the iPads help students with special needs. We will discuss a few specific disorders that are commonly found in every day classrooms, such as autism or hearing disabilities. We will discuss specific applications that they can use to help the students with specific disabilities.  Some of these applications include ArtikPix for students with speech and language difficulties (moms with apps, 2011). Another application is Grace App which helps students communicate what they need by building sentences with images (moms with apps, 2012). These applications are for specific needs. However, there are applications that we will cover non-specific needs for many different disorders. One of these applications that we will take time to use is Zanny – Born to Run. This application is for students with special needs but each book in the app addresses different disorders (moms with apps, 2012).  When we have finished using each of these applications we will reconvene and create lesson plans that help students with special needs communicate their needs. The attendees will share the plans that they have created, and receive feedback from their peers.
 * 1) The attendees will read and discuss information about the benefits of tablets in order to better assist students with special needs.

Additional materials you will use and how you will use them: Evaluation:  To evaluate what the teachers and administrators have learned I will have them create lesson plans. Once they have completed these lesson plans I will ask them to present their lessons. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> To evaluate the seminar I will have the teachers fill out a survey. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">media type="custom" key="13514092"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Presentation Screen
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Presentation document
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Powerpoint presentation to upload.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Tablets for teachers use
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Paper and pencils
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Clip boards