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Inclusion by ICT - Information and Comunications Technologies in Special Needs Education

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2017-1-PL01-KA219-038291
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only Funder Contribution: 121,471 EUR

Inclusion by ICT - Information and Comunications Technologies in Special Needs Education

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Strategic partnership – cooperation between schools was held between four special schools from different European countries: Poland, Great Britain, The Netherlands and Malta. Special School No. 3 from Krakow was the leader of the Project. The Project was held for 36 months. Teachers from these schools and children with profound and multiple learning disabilities were the direct participants of the Project. The indirect beneficiaries were the families of the children, teachers from the participating countries, students, academic teachers, and the employees of psychological and educational dispensaries. The participating schools were exchanging good practice in terms of Information Communication Technology (ICT), especially innovative solutions in the field of ICT. Schools worked on the implementation of the innovative projects in everyday educational practice with disabled children, in order to achieve better results, and to work more effectively with special needs children, who are especially exposed to discrimination and societal exclusion.General aims:- Exchanging ideas in terms of Information Communication Technology ( ICT ) tools, used by teachers in educational process, with severely disabled children and children with multiple disabilities as well as comprehensive implementation of organizational and methodological solutions in partner schools, participating in the project, in order to achieve permanent effects and to show different dimension of education.Other aims: - Upgrading teachers’ knowledge of how to use modern Information and Communication Technology as an important tool in inclusive education, to level up educational chances and societal inclusion of disabled children. - Supporting classical teaching methods by digital methods – elaborating innovative teaching tools: Omnidu, smart boards, multimedia projectors, OptiMusic, tablets, RehabKinect, interactive carpet, Android applications, professional software, adaptation of assistive technology tools, implementing new ideas, innovations which lead to long - term solutions and improvement of the quality of teaching.- Improving language competences and increasing teachers’ mobility.- Reducing “digital gap”. Specific activities included mutual international trainings and exchanging good practice, in terms of using ICT equipment to support the education of disabled children. After completing the trainings, the participating teachers instructed other teachers from their schools, how to use ICT in educational process. Teachers learned about the innovative hi-tech equipment and software like OptiMusik, Omnidu, Orion Tube, RehabKinect, Mówik, interactive carpet and adaptation of assistive technology tools. The other aim of this Project was to create a library of open educational resources, which included lessons scripts, using ICT technology in education and revalidation process with disabled children, didactical resources in teaching used by teachers, instructional videos used by pupils, teachers and parents. The library of open educational resources was developed by all participants of the Project, teachers from Poland, The Netherlands, Malta and Great Britain. The aim of this library of open educational resources was to encourage and facilitate teachers to use ICT technology in everyday work, and to be a methodological support to them. This library of open educational resources was presented during local conferences which were organized in partner schools. The International Workshops were to have taken place in June 2020 in SOSW Nr3 in Krakow. Due to the ongoing pandemic of COVID - 19 International Workshops were cancelled. During the conference we were to show examples of the positive influence of ICT on education, therapy and inclusion of disabled pupils. We were to talk about software and hardware, applications, educational exercises, which could be used in educational process of disabled children, children with Autism as well as physically disabled children. All materials the partner schools prepared for the Workshops are available on school websites, project websites , Erasmus+ platform. We also sent the materials to Boards of Education and special schools. In the future such activities will become an essential part of the process of creating open attitudes towards people with disabilities, building a new quality of special education, creating concepts and strategies for inclusive education. Thanks to the established contacts and cooperation between partners schools, it will be possible to maintain the contacts and international cooperation, setting up new projects, cooperating between curtain classes, using social media and instant messengers (like Skype or Hangouts, WhatsApp). The teachers, by participating in the Project and seeing the advantages of international cooperation, will be encouraged to improve their language competence, by continuing the cooperation with colleagues from other European countries.

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