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Students with ASD engage well with technology

2008-07-01

Since September last year I have spent every Tuesday working in Norwich at City College in the excellent and evolving Rugroom, a specialist learning and social centre for learners on the autistic spectrum. In May last year colleagues from Cleveratom and myself engaged

Since September last year I have spent every Tuesday working in Norwich at City College in the excellent and evolving Rugroom, a specialist learning and social centre for learners on the autistic spectrum. In May last year colleagues from Cleveratom and myself engaged with the Rugroom project to help select and embed the right learning technology into a new space being designed for students with ASD, by students with ASD. To read about how the project was founded, and launched officially earlier this year, click here. I'm on the train back from Rugroom as I write this, it is nearly 7.30 in the evening and I thought I'd take some time to begin reflecting on the last year, the learning, achievements, next steps and outcomes from this whole process so far. My battery is getting low, so I'll leave this blog entry for now by reflecting on the photograph and return to writing it from my desk tomorrow. In the photo we can see Tim constructing an areoplane in some great free Lego building software. To his right Alex is learning how to navigate a flight simulator, working out the best angle for take off. Over the desk Cara is building a comic and out of site Gemma is putting together a webs…

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