The use of ICTto support Home and in the Hospital Education (HHE)

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“Did you know that there are hundreds of thousands of young people across Europe and the rest of the world with medical needs, and that the majority recover and go on to lead full and normal lives?

Hospital schools and home tuition programmes ensurethat students not only keep up with their education, but that they can go on to achieve magnificent things.“

Sometimes with the support of ICT.

The issue of HHE (Home and Hospital Education) Providing education to children and youngsters with

medical or psychological needs: a world-wide problem Every country has its own solution for it. Need for an international confrontation on this

subject In some countries there are online/digital solutions

that may help the schools and the family to guarantee the right to education also to these children.

Monkey in my chairAUSTRALIA MissingSchool developed the “Monkey in My Chair”

programme for kids having treatment for cancer. The kids receive a Monkey, who can go to school when the kid is

too sick to attend, and sit in the kid’s place in the classroom. In addition to each "Monkey Kit," each child will be given online

access to Monkey Message, an online component that allows the sharing of pictures and documents to ensure the line of communication stays open between the patient and the classroom.

http://www.monkeyinmychair.org/program/

MISSING PICTURE

Pupil PassportUK Willow Bank School (WBS, Part of the Hospital

School in Leicester) use a pupil ‘Passport’ as a way of collecting and using significant data on pupils.

It’s an on-line form which enables schools and medical personnel to contribute to the information about the pupil’s medical and educational history.

https://secureform.egress.com/childrenshospital

WebchairGERMANY/NL/BELGIUM The webchair is a Mobile Device (mostly a

notebook) with a camera in classroom. So students who are isolated (eg. quarantine)

are able to steer its camera and interact with classmates and teachers.

http://www.webchair.com/

Educational RoboticsITALY In the Gaslini Children Hospital in Genova they

use the principles of 'Educational Robotics' in a hospital context.

This means that a team of teachers and experts from the Robotics School of the CNR (National Research Centre) teach the students with medical needs how to build little robots.

http://pso.istruzione.it/index.php/robot-realizzati-dai-bambini-in-ospedale

Aventura Tok TokSPAIN This tool, not specifically designed for HHE,

allows the creation of virtual network, promoting the interaction between hospitalised kids.

They can then publish their own works (characters, environments…) and to broadcast them to the rest of the platform users.

http://santosmiguel.me/project/aventura-tok-tok/

THE USE OF ICT TO SUPPORT LEARNING AT HOME AND IN THE HOSPITAL

Innovative practices in HHE: finally an EU funded projects

LeHo Learning at Home and in the Hospital

Online Educa Berlin 2014

Presentation by Matteo Uggeri

Main project data

Programme: LLP – Key3 Multilateral Network Runtime: January 2014 – December 2016 Coordinator: Fondazione Politecnico di Milano (ITA) Contact person: Matteo Uggeri Partners:

Università degli Studi di Perugia (ITA) Bednet (BE), Staatliche Schule fur Kranke Muenchen (GER) MMB (GER) EDEN (UK) Funditec (ES) Children’s Hospital School of Leicester (UK) Third Country: 57357 - Children's Cancer Hospital (EG)

+ External Evaluator: Daxa Patel+ Board of Experts

Aims of this project

Outline key educational factors & good practices needed by ill students;

Explore and design ICT-based solutions which will enable children in hospital, in home therapy, or who attend school part-time, to access education.

Verify how technology can impact on the methodology and pedagogy in Home and Hospital Education (HHE).

Not only for ill people

Moreover, the initiatives adopted in the HHE, which represents an educational extreme are designed to be innovative and to improve education in difficult contexts.

They may also be effectively applied in ‘normal’ didactical situations.

See you on the LeHo Hub

www.lehoproject.eu

The LeHo community is open for everyone involved in home and hospital education with the support of ICT: hospital and home tuition teachers, medical staff, ICT professionals, students and parents, etc.

Within the international and national groups, you can meet with your colleagues, share your experience and discuss difficulties you come across with.

You are also welcome to share relevant articles and presentations.

Thanks

Matteo Uggeri [email protected]

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano Digital Learning & Collaboration Area

http://www.facebook.com/fpmdigitallearning/