What is it about?
Good learning quality is achieved if the teacher succeeds in designing feasible learning, including designing learning tools such as modules that are tailored to the characteristics and limitations of students. Blind students have limitations in gaining experience kinesthetic or visual sensory to help construct their knowledge of geometry which its learning includes many visualized models of abstract. How is the geometry module that suitable for the visually impaired student who uses more of his touch senses than the eyes to recognize objects and develops his different conceptions? This paper discusses whether the visually impaired student can understand geometrical abstract concepts that included many geometric models and how to develop modules that are appropriate to their characteristics and difficulties.
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Why is it important?
Our research result shows the module that we developed satisfied the contents feasibility or scientific truth in accordance with the basic competencies that students must achieve, the clarity of the information presented, the structure and systematics of a module, linguistic and figure that toleration to the characteristics and visual limitations of visual impairments students as users. Our module based on the RMT approach to minimize the difficulty of learning abstract concepts about symbols that are not easy for students' understanding without teacher guidance. That module made the teacher only as of the mediator for students in the process of constructing geometry concepts through the use of psychological tools. Optimizing of the touch ability students are also done through the embossed feature which can be touched in accordance with their hand reach.
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By writing this article I hope that will open up the minds of many people that the problem of disabilities education also requires attention and has more complicated problems due to abnormal physiological structures. Whereas their understanding representation of abstracts concept is also very unique and it's very interesting to study. I hope other researchers can collaborate or conduct research that focuses to solve it. Students with a disability need teaching materials that can accommodate all its limitations. Like blind people who can still walk in the dark, so that's how they can also learn even with visual limitations.
andriyani andriyani
Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
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This page is a summary of: The development of a Braille geometry module based on visual impairment students synthetic touch ability with RMT approach, January 2020, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0000577.
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