TY - CHAP
T1 - Digital Literacy in Special Education
T2 - Preparing Students for College and the Workplace
AU - Lowenthal, Patrick R.
AU - Persichini, Gina
AU - Conley, Quincy
AU - Humphrey, Michael
AU - Scheufler, Jessica
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, IGI Global.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Digital literacy is essentialfor individuals entering college and the workplace. Students with disabilities experience a greater challenge in acquiring the skills necessary to succeed. This chapter explores the disability digital divide, success factors for acquiring digital skills, and the implications of a digital literacy curriculum developed for special education classrooms in Idaho. It demonstrates how leveraging human performance improvement (HPI) models, incorporating universal design for learning (UDL) principles, and supporting classroom teachers resulted in a curriculum to help young people with disabilities to acquire the digital skills they need to be prepared for college and the workplace.
AB - Digital literacy is essentialfor individuals entering college and the workplace. Students with disabilities experience a greater challenge in acquiring the skills necessary to succeed. This chapter explores the disability digital divide, success factors for acquiring digital skills, and the implications of a digital literacy curriculum developed for special education classrooms in Idaho. It demonstrates how leveraging human performance improvement (HPI) models, incorporating universal design for learning (UDL) principles, and supporting classroom teachers resulted in a curriculum to help young people with disabilities to acquire the digital skills they need to be prepared for college and the workplace.
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UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/edtech_facpubs/252
U2 - 10.4018/978-1-6684-3670-7.ch029
DO - 10.4018/978-1-6684-3670-7.ch029
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781668436707
SP - 524
EP - 537
BT - Examining the Roles of Teachers and Students in Mastering New Technologies
ER -