Voices of Primary School Teachers About the Intelligent Material System Developed for Inclusive Education-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Voices of Primary School Teachers About the Intelligent Material System Developed for Inclusive Education

Published:2024-07-10 Issue:2 Volume:9 Page:85-96
ISSN:2458-8350
Container-title:Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age
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Author:

Polat Elif¹^ORCID,Baştuğ Yunus Emre²^ORCID,Hopcan Sinan²^ORCID,Cepdibi Sıbıç Simge³^ORCID,Cirit Nazli Ceren²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ-CERRAHPAŞA

2. ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY-CERRAHPASA

3. İSTANBUL ÜNİVERSİTESİ - CERRAHPAŞA

Abstract

This study investigates the primary school teachers’ perceptions towards the Intelligent Material System (IMS), which was developed to enhance the quality of inclusive environments and support the academic skills of students with Special Educational Needs (SEN). Within this scope, IMS training was conducted with 84 classroom teachers who worked at primary schools in İstanbul. Following the training, an open-ended questionnaire and two focus group interviews were used to collect data. The findings revealed that IMS has the potential to support the students with SEN academically, as it provides motivating and rich content, has a user-friendly interface and a desired level of accessibility despite the system’s limitations and the need for improvements noted by the participants.

Publisher

Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age

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