The book plays an important role in creating a space for conversation to take place on how we use digital technologies so we can begin to tackle some of these educational inequalities and realise the right to inclusive education for disabled children and young people. To do that we need to have some kind of baseline of what the issues are and where we need to get to. This book allows us to do that. Fundamentally, it highlights that while digital technology is full of potential, it can also be a double edged sword.

Learning, Media and Technology

There is much evidence to show that digital technologies greatly impact children’s lives through the use of computers, laptops and mobile devices. Children’s uses of digital technologies are, therefore, currently of huge concern to academics, teachers and parents.Disabled Children and Digital Technologies investigates disabled children’s learning with digital technologies within the context of inclusive education. Sue Cranmer explores the potential benefits of using digital technologies to support disabled children’s learning whilst recognising that these technologies also have the potential to act as a barrier to inclusion. Cranmer provides a critical overview of how digital technologies are being used in contemporary classrooms for learning. The book includes detailed analysis of a recent study carried out with disabled children with visual impairments aged between 13 – 17 years old in mainstream secondary schools. The chapters consider the use of digital technologies in relation to access, engagement, attitudes, and skills, including safety and risk. These perspectives are complemented by interviews with teachers to explore how digital technologies can support disabled children’s learning and inclusion in mainstream settings more effectively.
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Introduction 1. Understanding Disabled Children and Digital Technologies 2. The Importance of Social Inclusion, Inclusive Education and Digital Inclusion3. The Potential of Digital Technologies for Learning4. Children’s Experiences of Digital Technologies for Learning5. Digital Skills and Competences including Online Safety and Risk6. Talking with TeachersConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Investigates disabled children and young people's everyday social practices with digital technologies and how these support or act as barriers to participation in learning and activities.
Provides a much-needed perspective on the area of disabled children's engagement with digital technologies where current literature and research is very limited but is of huge concern to academics, teachers and parents
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781350002050
Publisert
2020-11-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
192

Forfatter

Biographical note

Sue Cranmer is Lecturer in Digital Education and Social Justice at Lancaster University, UK. She is co-author of Primary Schools and ICT (2010).