
“We plan to give these two licenses to tech-ready DepEd special education centers," says board trustee, Cristina Estampador. “It’s really timely that the country embraces educational technology, especially for the special needs community. Technology levels the playing field for the disadvantaged as these kids learn differently. It makes differentiated-learning easily doable."
Created by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School and educators from the Monarch School for Children with Autism, VizZle is designed to help children with autism achieve by capitalizing on their visual processing skills and their inherent interest in multimedia. Research shows that children with autism pay more attention and retain more of what they learn when lessons are presented interactively on computers than when the lesson is presented in more traditional verbal/directive methods. Children with autism become very engaged when using computers, touch screens and electronic whiteboards, which can be used with VizZle software. VizZle, short for "visual learning," offers the tools to create lessons as well as a library of thousands of visual lessons made by other users to teach academic and daily life concepts such as emotions.
ASP is currently working on a proposal with Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc., to grant reasonable access to Vizzle for its family and institutional members. "Part of our efforts in helping the local autism community is thinking forward on how to make things even better for families and, most especially, the kids. " says Cristina Estampador
2 comments:
This sounds very interesting. As an institutional member of ASP. will Bridges Foundation, Inc. be granted access to Vizzle?
Hi! Thanks for your interest in VizZle. ASP is working on obtaining school and home access for its members at reasonable rates. We will keep you posted of its developments.
For inquires, comments, suggestions about VizZle, please email Cristina Estampador at cristina@autismsocietyph.org. Thanks!
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