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What’S Before The Ipad®? Teaching Basic Prerequisite Skills For Ipad® Use, Kimberly Maich, Steve Sider, Carmen Hall, Megan Henning
What’S Before The Ipad®? Teaching Basic Prerequisite Skills For Ipad® Use, Kimberly Maich, Steve Sider, Carmen Hall, Megan Henning
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Assistive technology, such as that available in an iPad®, have increasingly been used to support learning for all students and particularly for those with special education needs. The purpose of this article is to consider the prerequisite skills required for effective iPad® use. The effective integration of assistive technologies, from technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge perspectives is an important theoretical framework. From a Universal Design for Learning perspective, we consider how new skills can be taught and how task analysis is a critical part of the process. A review of suggested apps for prerequisite skills, such as cause and effect, …