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An Ongoing Research on the Behavior of Students with ADHD Symptoms While Working with ICT
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, , University of Thessaly, Greece

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Montreal, Canada ISBN 978-1-880094-56-3 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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The need for the design of educational environments suitable to the needs and the abilities of students with various learning difficulties (ADHD, dyslexia, etc.) is an issue of a great importance. The present study aims at pointing out the suitable digital learning environments used by primary school students with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms. The way in which the aim of the study was accomplished was a very careful observation of the students' behavior while working on the computers with various educational software environments. Furthermore, the students were asked to express their personal opinion regarding the software they had previously worked with. The study revealed that the characteristics of the educational software used by the students with ADHD symptoms could indeed affect their behavior while working on the computer and that the answers they give regarding the software environments are in many cases correlated with their behavior.

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Garagouni-Areou, F. & Solomonidou, C. (2005). An Ongoing Research on the Behavior of Students with ADHD Symptoms While Working with ICT. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2005--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 1130-1138). Montreal, Canada: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 11, 2024 from .

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