by
Nooraini binti Khaironi, Student, Master in Education,
City University, Menara City U, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Every individual has the right to
education, whether formal or informal.
Even geographical barriers, social economy and culture can be overcome
with the existence of emerging virtual learning or online learning opportunities. Especially for marginalized learner.
Marginalized learners.
The term marginalized has
expanded from originally referring to minorities and persons from poverty, hearing disability, visually, and physically challenged person, autism spectrum
persons, gifted and talented persons and persons with disfigurements. At Syracuse University, students from
marginalized learner also can be the target of negative beliefs, behaviors, or judgments
basis of multiple aspects of their identity, including but not limited to:
race, gender or gender identity, ability, sexual orientation, socioeconomic
status, sexuality, age, and religion group.
Here are successful distance
learning network practice for marginalize learner.
·
Expanding Educational Access for
Rural School.
Expanding educational access is
one of the most often cited benefits to virtual learning. Rural schools and school districts often use
virtual environments to provide courses that they would.
The Copper River School District
(CRSD) in Glennallen, Alaska, has is one
of an example virtual program that allows it to offer more than 250 different
courses in a high school population for only 100 students. Relying on labs
scattered throughout the district’s large geographic region and staffed by
dedicated mentors, virtual courses allow students to build course schedules
that are right for them without placing strain on the district’s resources.
·
The Use Of Technology In Special
Education: Application And Solutions
The educational standards claim
that students with disabilities should be provided with opportunities to
realize their potential. They should participate in education and training on
the same basis as students without disabilities and that they are not subject
to discrimination. Due to the progress in the IT industry, digital technologies
are easily accessible and widespread which allows using them for providing
students with new opportunities.
Technologies in special education
allows simplifying the communication and improve the academic skills of
students with disabilities. For
example,for students with speech problems to overcome the
communication barrier, here is one systems use picture charts, books, and specialized
computers providing functions of word-prediction for more effective
communication.
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Promoting learning among refugees.
The Varkey Foundation Teach to
Reach Remote Classrooms Project (TRC) funded by the Office of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is the world’s first satellite
enabled live two-way interactive distance learning program for children living
in a refugee camp. Each classroom in the
school is equipped with a projector and a low-cost durable computer to receive
lessons via a solar-powered satellite link in sub-Saharan Africa. The Ampain primary school has been fitted
with a satellite dish, which, through solar powered technology, receives a live
link to highly qualified teachers in a studio in Accra who broadcast lessons
direct to the refugee camp. Each
classroom has a projector so all the children can see the teacher giving the
lessons, and each classroom has also been provided with a computer so that
children can interact with the teacher in a direct, live, two-way link.
This allows the refugee children
catch up with their basic education through literacy, numeracy lessons and
learn the language of their host country.
Conclusion
Technology tools
apparently help teacher, parents, and community work together to overcome the
barriers and share the best practices with one another in education. Which helps all education line occur individualized
instruction that meets the specific needs and learning styles of students,
flexible scheduling, flexibility for students in time and location,
opportunities for homebound and other students who cannot attend a brick and
mortar school. It give an opportunities,
improved student outcomes and skills, and increased education choice.
So, no child left
behind. Cause all child have right for
education. Through education we can
contribute to prepare future-ready citizens who are technologically savvy,
globally competent, and prepared to engage in a 21st-century knowledge-based
economy.
References:
Alice Bonasio (2017) How
technology is helping education reach refugee children. EDTECH TRENDS.
https://www.cio.com/article/3202694/how-technology-is-helping-education-reach-refugee-children.html
Helping a Small District Provide
Big Course Offerings in Glennallen, AK. Edmetum.com
https://blog.edmentum.com/how-four-schools-are-using-virtual-learning-solve-unique-challenges
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f2ed/031d0fe484ffe92923837bb559e988153ba5.pdf
