MEDIA EDUCATION IN POLAND - NEEDS VERSUS REALITY

Virtual Reality in Special Needs Early Education

—During recent decades there has been an observable development in the social state of so-termed disabled people. With the WHO's definition on the concepts of handicap, impairment and disability and the light cast on society's responsibility towards their impaired members a radical change started. The overwhelming technological development of the late 20 th century has inserted a new dimension ...

Practical Development of Modern Mass Media Education in Poland

Practical development of modern mass media education in Poland. The paper analyzes the main ways of practical development of modern media education (1992-2012 years) in Poland: basic technologies, main events, etc.

Women as Consumers of Reproductive Technology: Media Representation versus Reality

Virtual reality technologies for research and education in obesity and diabetes: research needs and opportunities.

The rising rates, high prevalence, and adverse consequences of obesity and diabetes call for new approaches to the complex behaviors needed to prevent and manage these conditions. Virtual reality (VR) technologies, which provide controllable, multisensory, interactive three-dimensional (3D) stimulus environments, are a potentially valuable means of engaging patients in interventions that foster...

Virtual Reality and Special Needs

The use of virtual environments for special needs is as diverse as the field of Special Education itself and the individuals it serves. Individuals with special needs often face challenges with attention, language, spatial abilities, memory, higher reasoning and knowledge acquisition. Research in the use of Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) targets both cognition and behavior (Rizzo, et.al, 2...