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Adaptative - Literacy technological application for people with functional diversity.
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Aug 31, 2016
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FINISHED
LITERALLCY is a project under the Call: 2014 KA2 - Cooperation and Innovation for Good Practices Within the framework Erasmus+. The project addresses one of the main concerns in education and development of the European community: Literacy.
Today, there is a false and optimistic perception about the qualitative and quantitative level of literacy in Europe. Latest PISA (2012) results show that 1 in 5 students from 15 years in the EU still has insufficient reading skills. 73 million Europeans have obtained low skills and many of them have difficulties in literacy to function fully in personal, social and economic activities of daily living. In the case of people with special educational and assistance needs, especially those with cognitive impartments, literacy along with communication are the cross-line line between an active participation in society, and the social and educational exclusion.
The main objective of LITERALLCY project, is to developed a new educational tool to facilitate the literacy learning of people with special needs. The main added value of the tool relates to the design and contents adaptation to the capabilities of each user, who will be able to learn reading and writing trough personalized interactive exercises. As well as guaranties the cognitive, sensorial, physic and financial accessibility.
LITERALLCY learning tool will be hold on ICTs (tablet PCs) and it will be developed under Open Source within the intention to guaranties the access for every stakeholder. Latest voice recognition, artificial intelligent and learning evolution technologies will be developed and included in LITERALLCY learning application, in order to harness the motivational factors of new technology and take advantage of these toward the learning processes.
4 partner will take part on the consortium of the project, which complies the expertise and experience to develop it in the fields of:
- Assistive technologies development.
- Languages and grammar technologies.
- Educational training and contents development.
- End user (special needs) pilot implementation and knowledge.
To introduce the technologies in formal education (special education), it will be developed a teaching training program and a ICTs implementation guide.
Both technological development and educational development will be achieved by the same methodology through mechanisms of rain-Test-Improve-Train process. So that, training courses and pilot studies will take place, involving families, teachers and clinicians, directors of schools, policy makers and stakeholders.
This methodology will enable the achievement of tested results to provide to the framework of the European Community in the field of education.
The most important project results for the impact expected will be three;
The OER literacy learning application (supported by ICTs).
The public outputs related to the Training Program.
The results obtained from the pilot study.
So that, the expected results and impact are:
1.- To improve the literacy skills of 50 users with special needs.
2.- To innovate and aport a new teaching tool offer of 5 educational organisations (pilot studies).
3.- To design an International Teacher Training methodology the literacy application as well as for the implementation of th ICTs at special education. Improving the teaching and learning methods of literacy. That will allow the student to learn based on individual curricula.
4.- To train and make more capatible on teaching strategies at list 200 people in the environment of people with special needs.
5.- To include at least the new tool in two regional educational politics as a normalized teaching tool.
6.- To integrate at least in 2 Universities the teaching training programme as a ECTS formation course.
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LLITERALLCY expect the to exploit and disseminate Key outputs in order to provide the European community a functional educational tool to improve literacy levels (especially for people with special needs) and to include a teaching training program that ensures transfer methodology and implementation, as well as a evolution register system, to provide reliable statistical data. Waiting for a longer-term impact inducing towards inclusive education policies, incorporating ICTs as standardized and controlled education method.