2017 Volume 2017 Issue 27 Pages 156-204
The present author has been creating handmade original teahing materials with Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and conducting activities at special needs and general schools in collaboration with teachers. Over 150 schoolteachers now join the present research project that was started 10 years ago by one of the present authors (S. I.) at the Education Bureau of the Laboratory Schools, University Tsukuba. The key ICT technologies used are (i)dot codes that can handle multimedia like audios and movies, (ii)EPUB3 e-books with Media Overlays, and (iii)Augmented Reality. Each student grows with different learning hitstory and has own needs and desires; individually handmade original teaching material is inevitable to support his/her learning and activity in the class. Recent status of three new software, GM Authoring Tool, Sound Linker, and File Linker, developed by Gridmark in collaboration with the present project will be overviewed. Various activities performed at special needs and general schools are presented, where the schoolteachers sticking close to each student with disabilities created their own contents. The present activities are especially useful for the schoolteachers who want to tackle the problems in their classes under the guiding principle of The Disabled Persons Protection and Walfare Act and Reasonable Acommodation.
