Promobilia
Effective and efficient digital support for learning for people with attention challenges
For many students with neuropsychiatric disabilities, things are really challenging in school, often resulting in lifelong exclusion. The dominant pedagogical approaches do not work and students find it difficult to understand what is to be learned, how it is to be done and to know when they are ready, when they need to practice more and when it is time to change strategy.
The costs to society and individuals of these failures are very high. Students often end up in life situations that risk leading to addiction, crime and lifelong mental difficulties. Many never enter the workforce or enter it very late and a large proportion are found within the municipal Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments system (LSS in Swedish).
At KTH, we have improved an already effective and efficient pedagogical method for learning and we have received very positive spontaneous reactions from students and teachers who themselves state that they have ADD. To know if this applies in general for people with attention challenges, we now conduct a study that evaluates this.
Our model has the potential to simultaneously:
Provide faster learning of the same amount of knowledge
Less preparation time for teachers
Improve school results for students with ADD, ADHD and autism
If this model works, it would have major human and socio-economic effects. According to principles of
“universal design” and “design for extreme users”, it is likely that many other students would also benefit from the same model.
An additional advantage is that KTH has developed a process that, with the support of generative AI, can be used to radically lower the development costs for such digital learning material.
Team
Olof Bälter
Stefan Johansson, Karin Ekelund Malmros på Begrip Begripsam sam.
Funding
Project Duration
June 2020-June 2024