This book provides the teacher with an understanding of dyslexia and offers practical approaches that can be used for assessment, teaching and learning. The book aims to highlight how the needs of children with dyslexia can be met within the curriculum and within the mainstream classroom. The key theme of the book is inclusion and suggests that intervention for dyslexic children should focus on the barriers to learning, and the most prominent of these may be aspects of the curriculum and how the curriculum is presented.
ICT FOR CURRICULUM ENHANCEMENT Edited By Moira Monteith EDUCATION intellect Edited by Moira Monteith – – of the activities and how the students engaged in them. In the second project concerning the use of multimedia CD-ROMS, teachers claimed these enhanced their teaching and encouraged more student centred learning. Additionally, teachers should try to provide greater opportunities for independent learning tasks through the use of a range of software. She looks at the (creative?) gaps and differences in National Curriculum documentation of all four countries of the UK. She agrees with Papert that there must be a balance between instruction, construction and initiation.
Advances in Web-based Education: Personalized Learning Environments Advances in technology are increasingly impacting the way in which
curriculum is delivered and assessed. The emergence of the Internet has
offered learners a new instructional delivery system that connects them
with educational resources. Advances in Web-Based Education:
Personalized Learning Environments covers a wide range of factors that
influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning
environments, and it shows how user and pedagogical considerations can
be integrated into the design, development and implementation of
adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning
environments.
Advances in technology are increasingly impacting the way in which
curriculum is delivered and assessed. The emergence of the Internet has
offered learners a new instructional delivery system that connects them
with educational resources. Advances in Web-Based Education:
Personalized Learning Environments covers a wide range of factors that
influence the design, use and adoption of personalized learning
environments, and it shows how user and pedagogical considerations can
be integrated into the design, development and implementation of
adaptive hypermedia systems to create effective personalized learning
environments.
