Part III Using Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices for Faculty

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


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)


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


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


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] )

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Part III Using Adaptive Technologies and Best Practices for Faculty