Technology Thursday
Another Thursday down for this year already! We are fast approaching the return to school so I thought apps that involve schedules might be the way to begin!
For those that have worked with me before or work with me now know I love to be organised! I love a good list/ schedule to my day and feel pretty lost without it!
Here’s the funny thing, so does nearly everyone including kids! We forget that kids are little people and often have the same preferences as learners as we do! They like to know what’s going to happen and when (particularly the fun stuff). Providing children with schedules can make a big difference to how they respond to a situation/ activity particularly if it is something they don’t want to do!
Schedules in the ‘Therapy’ world can often be misinterpreted as what they are used for, usually just being passed off as a tool for working with children on the Autism Spectrum.
I use schedules for lots of reasons: understanding concepts/ what’s coming up, to show when children get rewards, for compliance around activities and most importantly for teaching students how to manage time and organise themselves.
You can use schedules in lots of different ways: paper schedules with pictures or words, written on the whiteboard or for time poor people like me in an app.
Choiceworks is an amazing app, for a relatively low cost (around $7), which you can take your own pictures and make up all types of schedules.
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