Digital Skills Development for 21st Century Special Education Needs Teachers

Education of children with special needs has traditionally been concerned with teaching life skills along with social and academic skills as those skills have been accepted as an entry point to daily and professional life. Therefore, Teachers of SEN (Special Education Needs) might seem to be hesitant to adopt the use of ICT methodology and tools as part of their work, mostly due to being worried about the time that would be lost on learning and teaching these ICT skills to their pupils and with the pre-assumption that those skills are secondary to the skills mentioned above. However, in the 21st century post-COVID19 era, ICT has already been a significant part of educational practices all around the World, highly impacting SEN education as well. Formal and non-formal learning and teaching practices are now taking place, if not always, at a higher frequency than ever before via use of internet and other supplementary software, with the promise that education, for all the pupils, can never be interrupted against any obstacle, therefore making learning possible at any place and any time.

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Project Results

The allocation of tasks and responsibilities will be based on the level of expertise and experience of partners. The roles and duties of the partners will enable them to effectively use their background and produce the maximum effect for the quality of the project results.

Digital resources and learning outcomes for SEN teachers:

The result aims to meet the needs and gap in the content that is specifically provided for SEN teachers and based on their needs to increase their digital skills and competences

Digi-Skills SEN online learning platform

This platform that is designed in line with the needs of SEN teachers will encompass curriculum and the learning content created in the R1 in a relevant way for registered users with a training interface on the developed curriculum

Mobile application for educational and technical softwares

This result will be created in an all-inclusive mobile application to visit all the selected educational and technical content and software that will be utilized by the SEN teachers by one tap. SEN teachers, via the mobile app, will be able to reach 30 selected application.