Role of technology for differently abled children.. after today's session I came to know about the various facets of technologies in education. Its very obvious that when teaching is done with some constructive experiments rather than the stereotyped methods, the quality of education will definitely rise. It will help the slow learners, demotivated children, children having no interest in studies, to fill the gap between the whole process of teaching and learning.
But how much feasible it will be for us to use technology for our heterogeneous targets or our unique ones? I mean what kind of technologies can be used for those children who are having multiple issues attached with them like what about a rural-poor-disabled child, who has nor any exposure to technology nor their physical ability is supportive.
We have the provision of inclusive education, but how many disabled and multi-disabled children can be seen in a rural government school. And if they don't go to those school, I don't think they have any other alternative rather than just to sit at home and survive, unlike their interest of doing all the activities like their similar age, so called 'normal' peers do. But for them even the basic treatments and therapies are not accessible, how can we think about creating a dream-like tech-savy school ambience for our special ones.
It was during my one of the field-visits that I was assigned to a village of Rajasthan where I had to do the social mapping. And during those visits I met with a few children who had varying levels of disability and when I interacted with their family they had simple responses. Like they don't know whom to discuss about their child's treatment, basic learning and rehabilitation or other interventions. Neither the PRI of the village is perturbed, nor the other service providers like teachers or health activists or supervisors are concerned for their well being.
Doesn't some kind of effective technology introduction is badly needed for those most deprived ones ?
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