Perception of adapting the edutainment technologies in private special school: Malaysian case study

There are difference between the private and public school for the special needs learner implemented in Malaysia. Malaysia had introduced the main three programs for special needs learner under the Ministry of Education such 1) Special Education Schools 2) Integration Programs in Mainstream Schools 3) Inclusive Program. In the private special school, the program was emphasis on the early intervention process. One private special school is selected for the case study. The purpose of the study is to investigate the teachers’ perception on technology whether they interested to use in their teaching environment. The teaching method was divided with several edutainment applications such as gamebased learning, virtual reality, augmented reality and online animation tool. All these technologies mediums were demonstrated to know whether it could stimulated the student’s attention or not. The teachers will comments the overall of the sessions. The study involved the qualitative descriptive instruments such as observation, feedback form, and informal conversation. The benefits were focused more how the teacher managed to handle this alternative teaching method for the special needs learner. Teachers’ agreed that the student attention through animated object and game-based approach on edutainment provide the student to challenge themselves to finish the task.