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Maria Eulália Ribeiro CordeiroCANTIC - Portugal

TeleAula: New ways of Schooling for Hospitalized Students

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(Centre of Assessment in Information and Communication Technology)

Centro de Avaliação em Novas Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação

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Is a resources centre

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The Lisbon Regional

Education Directorate

GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

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(kindergarten - university / working life)

Our Universe

• Students with sever motor disability

• Students with sever chronic diseases

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• Enable students with severe motor disabilities or with severe diseases to succeed in regular schools

Global AIMS of CANTIC

• Evaluation of students motor capabilities to identify the most adequate technological aids

• Support the work of teachers

• Adapt technical aids to the needs of this students

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• To link the students that are hospitalised with a regular school in the hospital geographical area (reference schools)

Our Approach

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•To link the students at home to his own school classes (original schools)

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They have a lonely life and are not integrated in society

The disease becomes the centre of his life and interrupts his life projects

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Student with S.E.N.

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Advantages of Inclusive Schooling

Access to the National curriculum

Enables interaction with group of colleagues

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• Enable interactivity even at a distance

• Enable different communications ways:– Audio– Video– Sharing documents– Transfer information (text, image….etc)

• Motivator of students and teachers

Telemultimedia Systems

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Hospitals Schools Home School level

― 1paediatric

― 1 oncologic

― 2 general

― 1 rehabilitation

―9 reference schools

―14 original

schools

14 4th y – 2

5th y – 2

7th y – 1

9th y – 2

11th y – 4

12th y – 3

1998- 2003

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-Cardiopathology 2

-Muscular Dystrophy 2

-Leukaemia 4

-Sherman disease (rheumatism) 1

-Imperfect Ostheogenesis 1

-Vertebromedular trauma 2

-Cröhn disease 1

-Dermatitis 1

Home Students

Pathologies

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Technologies of Distance Communication

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• 1 PC (Pentium III…)+ 1 printer

•1 videoconference card (PictureTel 550 or Videomeeting PC)

•1 ISDN access

•1 camera (webcam type)

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Reference Reference SchoolSchool

Reference Reference SchoolSchool

Model centered in the dynamics of school

Model centered in the classes activities

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Adapted Methodologies

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Model centered in the classes activities

Original Original SchoolSchoolOriginal Original SchoolSchool

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Adapted Methodologies

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• Improvement of success at school and in the use of technology

• Improvement of socialization, with positive impacts in the family

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Project Results

• Improvement of the tecnical resourses (elimination the bugs)

• Very expensive technologies and communication

• Low knowledge of some teachers in the use of technical resources

Limiting Factors

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