My+Case

__1: Challenge,Context and Content__ A common challenge I will face when teaching in the primary school is children with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder). This is extremely common and very prominent with young children. I will be responsible for an entire class and have sole responsibility. This class will typically have around 26 children and many will not have an additional support need(Special Need). I will be teaching in Scotland in the UK. Children with ADD will struggle with concentration and often struggle to engage with common classroom work such as reading a book. I could be teaching children aged 11 in a primary 6 class. A typical class project would be on mini-beasts or bugs. This project would be an integrated project with environmental studies and technology in the classroom. It would be a class project that would take place over a series of lessons due to the very young age of the children and the capabilities of the children in relation to technology.

__2: Solution and Technology__ There are several ways in which I could try to tackle this challenge. Below I will describe some of the many options and forms of technology that may be used to best engage a pupil/student with ADD. To collate all the information the children have found out they will create their own wiki where they can upload various files and describe anything they have found out in their research about bugs and mini-beasts.

//Videos// Videos may be used of mini-beasts/bugs in action. These could be found on youtube for example. Children could upload these on their Wikispace or they could infact create their own video of bugs in action. They could take a camera out into the playground and video a bug. They could then upload this video and then create an audio file along with this decribing what is taking place in the video. So children could create a page and write a little about a particular bug then insert a video of either their own taking or from a site such as youtube. Videos provide multiple means of engagement by allowing many or simply a few children to watch the video.

//Links:// cockroaches: []

//Images// On one of their pages children could take photographs of bugs and upload them to their wiki or they could scan an information book with an image onto the computer and then upload the image. They could also save images from various websites simple by right-clicking and saving it or they could use a search engine of images such as google images and upload an image there. This demonstrates mutliple means of expression.

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//Audio// Children may record the sounds of these minibeast/bugs or they may find them on wikimedia common and save them. They could upload these to their wiki on a page perhaps describing mating calls and include underneath the mating call audio. Children could also display an image and record themselves describing this image. Also children could record what they wish to say about a particular image instead of writing and this would relate to the universal design of multiple means of representation. In doing so this would allow children who struggle to write/type or read to also be included in the project. This also allows children with ADD to continually be engaged with the technology they are using. In order to do this the teacher may make a pre-requisite of the task to be that children must use at least 4 forms of technology on their wiki. This encourages multiple means of representation.

//Links:// cockroach sounds from wikimedia commons []

//Other Media// Children could use 'Hot Potatoes' to create a quiz about their bugs for the rest of the class to take part in. This again encourages multiple forms of engagement by including others in the individuals project on mini-beasts. Another form of media the children could use could be Quandary where children create their own story about a bug and another student can decide their own ending for the story.

//Links:// Hot Potato Quiz: