{"id":4414,"date":"2013-05-21T08:20:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summit-education.com\/?p=4414"},"modified":"2013-05-21T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:20:46","slug":"ipads-and-ot-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summit-education.com\/blog\/general\/ipads-and-ot-education\/","title":{"rendered":"iPads and OT Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OT\"<\/a>Occupational Therapy practitioners have been utilizing iPads in intervention strategies to address cognition, visual perception, motor coordination, handwriting, and other impairments.\u00a0 The benefits of an iPad are especially useful for students with special needs for their ease of use, access to information, and convenience.\u00a0 However, iPads are now changing higher education and interaction in the classroom.\u00a0 Many universities and schools are using technology to replace traditional textbooks and utilizing other features of technology to enhance clinical education and clinical reasoning skills.<\/p>\n

Husny Amerih, PhD, OTR, ATP, is assistant professor in the school of occupational therapy at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.\u00a0 He recently started using iPads in teaching his applied kinesiology class.\u00a0 Previously, he taught the manual muscle testing (MMT) components of this class using the traditional approach of face-to-face interaction in classroom and lab settings.\u00a0 However, to incorporate iPads, he\u00a0created and uploaded five videos, each 7-10 minutes long, with subtitles detailing what muscle was being tested and at what position.\u00a0 After his initial lecture and demonstration, students were paired up and given an iPad with videos.\u00a0 The purpose was to allow students to practice multiple times, and check and verify their own skill using the videos as a reference before being checked by the instructor.\u00a0 His role as instructor shifted from verifier of knowledge to a facilitator of learning.<\/p>\n

At the end of the semester,\u00a0Husny polled the 33 students in his applied kinesiology class regarding their preferred method of instruction.\u00a0 Although only a small sample of students, the results concluded that most students still prefer their instructor’s hands-on teaching over the instruction provided using iPad videos.\u00a0 For more information, read the full article from Advance magazine here.<\/a><\/p>\n

What is your opinion regarding iPads and education? Share with us here or on our Facebook<\/a> page!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occupational Therapy practitioners have been utilizing iPads in intervention strategies to address cognition, visual perception, motor coordination, handwriting, and other impairments.\u00a0 The benefits of an iPad are especially useful for students with special needs for their ease of use, access to information, and convenience.\u00a0 However, iPads are now changing higher education and interaction in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t