Tikas

Tikas is a pedagogical ICT and education training model for students with special needs.

All citizens require the basic ICT skills to enjoy the same quality of life as others in the information society. These ICT skills help people with special needs participate in societal activities and increase their employment opportunities, making the society more accessible and inclusive. Many students still need special support in learning the basic ICT skills.

Teach ICT more easily

Tikas aims to assist educational establishments, associations and other organisations to organise their teaching methods that students can be climbed one step at a time in the world of information and communication technology.

Tikas will benefit people with intellectual disabilities, the autistic, those studying according to an individual syllabus and people with reading and learning difficulties. Tikas is also ideal for elderly people, immigrants and people with multilingual backgrounds who have insufficient knowledge of the official languages of their country of residence.

Themes of Tikas

The Tikas training model involves the following themes:

Tikas education for teaching personnel

nearly 500 Tikas ICT instructors have been trained by autumn 2010
Tikas training is being given in about 130 Finnish educational establishments

Tools to teachers to plan and teach basic ICT skills

Tikas Teaching Plan (describes the ICT skills the students should possess)
skill assessment forms
ICT words
plain language ICT textbooks
web-based learning environment (including e.g. exercises)
Tikas ICT Certificate (have given over 5500 by autumn 2010)

Contact information

The Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disablities
Teaching Material Centre Opike / Tikas
Viljatie 4 C
FI-00700 Helsinki, Finland

tikas(at)kvl.fi
www.tikas.fi

Mr. Petri Ilmonen
Development Manager, ICT in Education
tel. +358 9 3480 9358, +358 40 509 4994

Updated October 14, 2010.