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ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY� IN A DIGITAL AGE

WHAT ARE THE KEY IDEAS?

We hope to gain an understanding of overall pre-service teacher knowledge related to Assistive Technology (AT), Digital Literacies, and Computational thinking. Graduate students will be evaluated first and questions will be refined. The researchers will next seek information from undergraduate students.

We hope to:

1. Gain an understanding of pre-service teacher knowledge, strengths, and challenges.
2. Build a framework for AT and CT.
3. Build a network for implementation and data collection- including the critical components of instructional decision making.

THE INTERVENTION

SRSD writing intervention

• Strategic writing combining the steps in computational thinking.
• Decomposition of writing (sentence structure, paragraph structure, parts of an essay).
• Algorithmic thinking (to determine the best writing strategy)
• Abstraction for revising and editing for clarity
• - Testing out strategy use with the aid of assistive technology (student dependent debugging)

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1 Billion

�Children and adults worldwide will be denied assistive technologies (WHO, 2022)

More than 2.5 Billion

Individuals will need assistive products worldwide (WHO, 2022). This does no account for the number of students that could benefit from the exposure to AT to solve problems early.

SURVEY QUESTIONS