Benidorm provides educational centers with UECO project, a teaching tool for students with special needs

Benidorm City Council will provide the city's educational centres with a digital teaching tool that enhances learning through play. As explained by the Councillor for Education, Maite Moreno, "given that this tool is designed to work with both typical and specific students, we decided to test it in schools that have UECO classrooms: CEIP El Murtal, Ausiàs March, and Mestre Gaspar López; and IES Mediterránea and Beatriu Fajardo de Mendoza."

Staff from the Valencian company Apolo Kids, which developed the Kokoro Schools tool, which in turn has the support of the LEGO Foundation, explained the details and use of the application to the Guidance departments and management teams of the UECO classrooms. The presentation was also attended yesterday by the Councillor for Education, the Councillor for Innovation, Aida García Mayor, and the coordinator of the Benidorm Educational Guidance Unit.

Moreno announced that "Benidorm City Council is the first to make this tool available to educational centres, assuming the cost of the licenses for the pilot implementation, which will be carried out in the last quarter of the school year."

The councillor emphasised that "this digital solution is designed so that each student learns at their own pace in a safe and fun way. It is personalised learning, in which teachers select games for each student based on the skills they want to enhance and work on, and can also monitor their progress in real time."

"We believe that this application can be very useful for teachers and students, complementing and reinforcing the activities and work carried out in UECO classrooms and, therefore, facilitating inclusion," she added.

For her part, the Councillor for Innovation emphasised that "at the City Council, we are once again committed to the use of technology as a training and inclusion tool to improve the quality of life, in this case, of Benidorm students with specific needs. And we are also doing so by relying on local talent, working hand in hand with a Valencian company that, having implemented the tool in Spain, is in the process of expanding to other Spanish-speaking countries."