Web-Kids
Web-Kids is a project involving occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant assistant students (from Erie Community College, University at Buffalo, D'Youville College) working one-on-one with school children from Buffalo, NY in building personal websites. The primary objective of this program is to facilitate inter-generational and cross-cultural learning through collaborative partnerships. The program has been executed in Buffalo Schools, West Side Community Services, Erie Community College, and Baker Victory Services. Populations have included middle-school children in inner city school, adolescents within after-school community based settings, transition-age youth with emotional and psychological impairments within high school settings.
College students and school-age students partner together to create personal websites that share about each individual's:
College students and school-age students partner together to create personal websites that share about each individual's:
- Self (interests, values, goals, roles, habits and routines, accomplishments)
- Community (neighborhood, school, community issues, community assets and resources)
- Culture (family traditions, ethnic traditions, ancestry, cultural values)
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Essentially, participants learn about others through shared goal-directed tasks of planning, researching, photographing, and writing. Through this service learning experience, occupational therapy students have the opportunity to practice and refine newly learned skills within a safe and supportive team environment. They maintain reflective journals throughout the project as they encounter and think about their emerging understanding of culture, teaching/coaching strategies, therapeutic modalities, therapeutic rapport, and technology - skill and knowledge domains essential to occupational therapy competence.
Project Director: - David Merlo, MS, COTA, CPRP, ROH Read more CLICK HERE |
Anticipated Outcomes:
For School Students...
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For College Students...
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Service-Learning
Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities. Service-learning integrates service objectives with learning objectives. An intended outcome is to bring about measurable change in both the recipient and the provider of the service. The result is a radically-effective transformative method of teaching students. Learn more about service-learning:
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