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Reasons for Challenge - A) handling repeatedly lose interest in learning. She
multiple age group kids at one place : tried various methods to teach him
counting in traditional way and also tried
1. Non availability of class rooms. showing him videos on the desktop
2. Absence of teachers to handle available at school, but the boy would lose
interest quickly. She continued her efforts
the kids throws a major
and found interactive mobile applications
challenge.
that would help him learn numbers and
Reasons for Challenge - B) Absence of counting and gave him access to her
modern teaching aids : mobile for learning. After continuous
exposure and some special attention, now
1. Handling different age group
kids at one place with he can identify and count all the numbers
redundant technology is a from 1-20 and this indeed helped her move
forward with the student and also had
major setback.
opened him up for more learning.
2. Lack of funds or means to bring a. Journey towards transformation :
the change.
Through the process of download-
Reasons for Challenge - B) New chal- ing and using the mobile applications, She
lenge to teach dyslexic kid : realised that there are multiple applications
1. Inventing new methods to teach available to suit the needs of specific
the kid topics. She explored further and found
applications useful her students who are
School Transformation between class 1 and 5.
She followed the different criteria for
Considering the above situations, she
started looking for interesting means to filtering and selecting the interactive
mobile based applications which are
teach children with the available resources.
She used videos of rhymes in English and related to counting numbers. She
Telugu and also some number rhymes for downloaded the applications which are
Mathematics. After a few days we had a • free to download and use
new admission in school. As the teacher • which are more attractive,
has specialization in special education, She creative and are theme based
could identify that the child was suffering
from Dyslexia. This has made her job more • which are more relevant to the
challenging and as child would not purpose and closer for students
concentrate on things that were taught and to relate and understand
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