The document discusses reducing barriers to learning for students through understanding their needs using the SETT framework model. The SETT framework examines the student's strengths/weaknesses, environment, tasks required, and appropriate tools. It encourages collaborative decision making to implement technology that addresses the student's barriers by considering their needs, activities, success criteria, required training, and limitations of their environment and tools.

1. Reducing Barriers to Learning
with the IPad
Dabney Frothingham

2. Is there an app for that?
• Reducing barriers to learning begins by
understanding what barriers are present
• SETT framework is a model to encourage
collaborative decision making for
implementing technology
– Student, Environment, Tasks, Tools

3. • Student
– What are the student’s strengths/interests?
– What are the student’s weaknesses/needs?
– What are other students doing that the student
needs to be able to do?
– What does the student need to be able to do that
he/she cannot accomplish independently?

4. • Environment
– What activities take place in the student’s
environment?
– Where will the student participate (classroom,
home, community)?
– What are the limitations/barriers of the
environment (physical, auditory)?
– What technology does the student currently have
access to?

5. • Tasks
– What are the specific tasks required to complete
goal/objective of lesson/instruction?
– What activities is the student expected to
complete?
– What does success look like?

6. • Tools
– Are the tools student centered and task
orientated to reflect student’s current needs?
– Are tools being considered due to their
features/support rather than specific to name
brand?
– Cognitive load required to access and interface
with tool(s)?
– What training is required for staff, family, and
student?
– Barriers (physical, auditory, cognitive) to accessing
tool.