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Tech tools that assist all students to be independent learners & teachers to become better teachers
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Social media helping children with autism ‘navigate the world’ Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments

Social media helping children with autism ‘navigate the world’ Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments | Eclectic Technology | Scoop.it

"Jordan Hilkowitz is layering household products into a beaker for his latest science experiment. Right beside his mom’s coffeemaker on the kitchen counter, he is preparing a video entitled Layers and Density, describing each step for his 3,800 YouTube channel subscribers and more than 1.5-million viewers. It’s an extraordinary feat considering that five years ago, the 10-year-old autistic boy was non-verbal.

Jordan, better known as Doctor Mad Science, also has an audience of researchers who are intrigued by the fact that social media could be useful therapy for children with autism."

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Can we use video games to treat depression?

"Ever wonder if gaming can be used as a therapy for young people with depression?
Find out how University of Auckland researcher, Dr Sally Merry, and her team of researchers and games developers have created a video game to treat youth depression. Sally hopes the therapy will reach out to depressed youth, 75% of whom would normally receive no treatment."

The British Medical Journal has just published an article about this at 

http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2598.

To get information about the software Sparx, go to http://www.sparx.org.nz.

Manpreet Singh's curator insight, March 20, 2016 9:52 PM

Depression is a common thing to happen and you don't even know you have depression until you don't know what the symptoms are. This trailer of depression is for young adults and adults who go through depression and they produced a video game to treat people who go through depression. It involves critical thinking and helps you to overcome depression by playing the game regularly and you will know that this video game is helping you to overcome depression in different situations.