Israeli basis to host panel at UN conference on disability rights

The Israeli Athena Foundation is hosting an event at a UN conference on disability rights on Friday. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRC) will take place from June 15 to 18, in which 181 countries will take part. The Athena Foundation, which has special adviser status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), specializes in empowering teachers through advanced technology and will host an online event to promote the use of technology in teaching Students with disabilities discuss the COVID-19 pandemic.

The event will be chaired and moderated by Noa Tishbi – author, actress and film producer in Los Angeles, who will talk about the importance of technology for human development and the education of the future generation, among other things.

Uri Ben-Ari, President and Founder of the Foundation, will review its vision and activities in the field of teaching in general and in the field of special education in particular.

The Athena Foundation, founded in 2006, has distributed digital toolboxes to around 28,000 teachers and kindergarten teachers in 172 municipalities across the country, who together teach around 650,000 students. This number includes over 9,000 special educators who teach about 72,000 students.

Each digital toolbox provided to the teacher includes a laptop or iPad (depending on the different programs), 120 lessons, a printer, a classroom projector, wireless internet for the classroom and more. The advanced technology makes it possible to improve the quality of teaching and learning. In the field of special education, these tools also serve to improve communication with students.

“During the corona epidemic, the Athena Foundation continued its activities and distributed digital toolboxes to other teachers,” said Ben-Ari. “The foundation’s activities have made a major contribution to the fact that distance learning and the continuation of the school year are possible despite the severe restrictions caused by the epidemic.”

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Yaffa Ben-David, General Secretary of the Teachers’ Union, speaks about Special Education in Israel and the contribution that advanced technology can make to the education system. The Israeli special education system has about 270,000 students receiving special education, about 11% of the total education system. Some students attend schools that meet their needs, while others are in mainstream schools but receive special education on the side.

In addition, Prof. Adina Shamir, Head of the PhD and Special Education Program at the School of Education at Bar-Ilan University and Director of the Center for Technology for Students with Special Needs, will listen to preliminary results of a study led by Dr. Sigal Eden enter. The focus is on the use of technology during the coronavirus pandemic. The special education and mainstream education teams, which received digital toolboxes from the Athena Foundation, among others, found that “A much higher percentage of special education teachers testify to the importance of having a laptop or iPad for experience and familiarity with technological tools. “Said Shamir. “Teachers without a laptop or with limited knowledge of technological processes found it difficult to integrate into the entire process of distance learning during the Corona period.”

The event will take place on June 18 at 5:00 p.m. Israel time.

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