Education
Assisting chronically ill children’s education
Technology that’s helping sick children with their science lessons.
Denise Whitelock of the OU’s Institute of Educational Technology and Prof Roser Pinto of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona are helping chronically ill children, through the use of new technology, to keep up with their science curriculum when they are in hospital or at home and cannot attend school. The teaching helps them to understand their illness and to follow their treatment and dietary recommendations.
The project ‘Technology Enhanced Activities for Learning Science for Children in Hospital’ (TeaCH) has built a software tool, Nefreduca, which is used with Spanish children hospitalised with chronic kidney problems.
The next phase of the research is to build a roadmap for technology use in teaching science to children with chronic illnesses, as agreed by experts in medicine, education and technology.
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