Part III
Using Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices for Faculty
2010 LT & ITC ShowcaseTeaching Students with
Disabilities: Resources & Responsibilities
12 November 2010
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies
and Best Practices
Dr. Maria Clayton
Barbara Draude
Dr. Jill Hague
David Robertson
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices
Introductions Speakers Topic Overview
Purpose Raise awareness among faculty &
admin Share best practices on
teaching/learning w/disabilities Share some practical applications of
best practices for Universal Design
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices
When writing about the issue of AT as a means of improving accessibility, Carmela Cunningham and Norman Coombs suggest, “People with disabilities may have benefited more from the proliferation computers over the past two decades than any other population group. Computer technology provides for these individuals the tools needed to obtain a significant increment of independence and productivity hitherto unavailable to them” (vii).
(Information Access and Adaptive Technology. Phoenix: Orynx Press, 1997)
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices
Teaching with a Disability Insights from faculty
Tools Used
Learning with a Disability Insights from students
Tools Used
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices Universal Design Principles (UDL)
a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn UDL Basics (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4)
GuidelinesPresent information
and content in different
ways
Differentiate the ways
that students
can express what they
know
Stimulate interest
and motivation
for learning
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices
General Applications Conferring with students Using a variety of strategies Multiple versions of assignments
Digital Alternative text for images
Flexibility and openness (“adaptive faculty”) Collaborative assignments Conferencing toward content mastery Privileging revision [e.g. portfolios] Making use of IT resources within
University
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices
Online Applications Consistency with the web site Transformability Multimodality Focus and Structure Text readability
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices Specifics on Instructing Students:
Who are blind or visually impaired Are deaf or hard of hearing With speech impairments With mobility impairments With a cognitive disability
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies Best Practices
A student’s point of view : Words to Consider Respect Invite Initiate Partnerships Easy-to-experience materials /presentations Accountability Class room activities Announce Guard the frustration factor
Opening the Door: Adaptive Technologies Best Practices
Presenter contact information: Dr. Jill Hague [email protected] Dr. Maria Clayton [email protected] David Robertson
[email protected] Barbara Draude [email protected]
Part IV
Reflections/Conclusions and Wrap-up
One Minute Reflection Exercise Consider how your awareness of
disability issues has increased and how that will influence your interactions with students with disabilities. Finish this statement: I am now more
aware of …… and I will ………….. Identify one aspect of your course
that may not be fully accessible or could be more universally designed and write an action statement on how that can be accomplished.
Wrap-up Visit the Student Conduct Tutorial
(http://www.mtsu.edu/countest/tutorial/)
Feedback - suggestions for a follow-up session
Questions / Comments Thanks !!!
Tom Brinthaupt ([email protected]) Amy Burks ([email protected]) Maria Clayton ([email protected]) Barbara Draude ([email protected]) Gail Fedak ([email protected]) Jill Hague ([email protected]) Watson Harris ([email protected]) David Robertson ([email protected] )