Mobile devices as support for students with special educational needs

• DOI: 10.26881/pwe.2018.41.03
• Publication Date: 2018-10-03T17:59:55Z
• Authors: Sylwia Galanciak; Anna Weiss; Marek Siwicki
• Keywords: special educational needs; 4. Education; 05 social sciences; mobile technologies; 10. No inequality; L; 0503 education; digital didactics; Education

The article presents partial results of research conducted among forty eight teachers from four European countries, using tablets to work with students with special educational needs (SENs). The aim of the research was to recognize the scope of application of mobile technologies by teachers and also their opinions on the usefulness of these technologies as support in the process of education and rehabilitation. Despite a small group of respondents, the method of a survey (questionnaire) was used due to the ease of obtaining a precise translation of the questionnaire and the results of the research. The image of teachers emerging from the research is that of pedagogues who realistically assess the advantages and disadvantages of tablets as assisting and training technologies and who try to strengthen the educational opportunities of their pupils without systemic support.