Executive+Function+Disorder+and+Diigo

**Executive Functioning Disorder and Diigo**
For students with executive function disorders, a typical school day can bring on many challenges and obstacles. Even simply the ability to organize information that is being presented or discussed into knowledge that can be applied to a larger theme or application. With an impairment in executive function, children are lacking administrative control that helps them to keep track of multiple layers of information. Learning to use a program such as Diigo initially would take a bit more time and perhaps a modified approach, but once these children became comfortable with the platform, the educational benefits would be drastic.

For students with executive function disabilities to learn how to use this Web 2.0 technique, the would first need to be provided with clear and sensual steps in how to use the program. It would not be enough for these students to simply view the Vimeo tutorial that Diigo provides. In addition to the tutorial that all other students receive, students with an executive function disability should receive printed, easy to comprehend steps to activate their account and begin making use of this annotation technology. During this hands-on portion of learning to use Diigo, the teacher should carefully monitor these students to make sure that they are making progress to become more comfortable with how to find resources, make annotations, add tags, and share to the class group.

The accommodations required to get children with executive function disabilities to be able to use Diigo would be worth the effort. Diigo can help these students because the tags and annotations that they added during one step of the research process will be not only saved in one location, but will also be easy to locate again based on the topic. Thinking about a major assignment such as a research paper, this tool would help organize the topics and themes of the paper based in the tags and annotations added while taking notes. A student with an executive function disorder would have an easier time creating an outline as their information would be organized by theme. Not only would their own organization improve, but with a group created in Diigo, other students could add tags and comments. These comments within the community might help the students with an executive function disorder to make the process of organizing their research by theme more efficient.

Resources:

[|__https://www.diigo.com/learn_more__] [|__http://memory.ucsf.edu/ftd/overview/biology/executive/single__] [|__http://neurodevelop.com/executive_functioning__]