• How can digital and assistive technology support learners with SEND, including to participate in mainstream education settings?
Background
Technology, including digital technology and artificial intelligence, has great potential to transform lives, but we need to develop our expertise to deploy them well, and to help learners, families and carers to use them safely and judiciously, taking account of the need for a healthy balance of “screen time” and time away from screens. (For brevity, please read all references to children as encompassing both children and young people where appropriate).
Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest
Next steps
Get in touch with research.engagement@education.gov.uk
Topics
Related UKRI funded projects
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Shaping the future of technology use in the classroom
Most children with autism find computers and technology safe, motivating and engaging. Technology has the potential to enable learning in new and innovative ways and we are particularly intrigued by how technology can be...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
Addresses how technology can support children with autism to communicate better in educational settings.
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On-Line support for children with special needs
The Student Support Portal is an on-line community made up of students with a disability and their family members, professionals working in the education sector and assistive technology manufacturers and publishers. Our...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project directly addresses the use of assistive technology to support learners with SEND in mainstream education settings.
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Adaptive-media: Perceptive digital tools to help people learn and adapt in times of self-isolation
A-dapt has developed a new intelligent content format called Adaptive-media®. Our solution is the first AI-based media format that can actively perceive the viewer at home on their PC, tablet or smartphone adapting t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on adaptive learning tools to help children sustain attention during remote learning, which is partially relevant to the question.