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ACCESSIBLE LEARNING
Removing Barriers for all Students
Who is a typical ADLC student?
Repeaters
Average Previous school mark
IPPs
self identified
IPPs
on file
Adults
OL 39% 35% 26%
5% 0
Print 33% 33% 6% 6% 6%
Social Studies 10-2
Repeaters Average Previous School awarded Mark
Average Previous Diploma Mark
IPPs self identified
IPPs on file
Adults
40% 52% 48.7% 11%
3% 16%
Social Studies 30-1
Why Assistive Tech? The fairness debate.
UDL Overview: http://youtu.be/bDvKnY0g6e4Rick Lavoie on Fairnesshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G9--
hUQDwYThis 8 month old baby was born deaf,
watch themoment as his cochlear implant is
activated and hehears sound for the first time, and his
mother's voice.http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTzTt1VnHRM
What assistive tech do we use everyday? Is it fair?
Technology Original Purpose Current Use
Predictive Text Quadra-pelagic Head activated communication
Google Searches – Is it Fair?
Wheel chair ramps Wheel chairs Baby strollers
Siri
Mel Levine: Educational Care
Potential Barriers to Learning @ADLC?
Potential Barrier to Learning:
Tool/Strategy Effective / Ineffective?
Reading Ability Text to Speech
Written Expression
Processing Speed
Motor Control
Attention
Memory
Social Skills
Critical/Higher Order Thininking
Student Engagement: Multiple Intelligences
The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) perspective for the Expert Learner is for a learner to be:
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Expert Learning: A shared responsibility
Blueprint to Build Capacity in UDL
ADLC Senior Admin Team
Creates vision with
stakeholders
Establishes a Community of Practice (CoP)
Develops and Implements
Strategy plans to support UDL
Coordinators & Department
Heads
Establishes respect of learner
differences as school culture
Provides flexibility of curriculum
redesign and PD
Supports teachers to develop
courses with UDL principles
Teachers
Understands learner
difference and UDL principles
Encourages learner voice and choice, applies UDL principles in
courses
Participate in CoP and develops
personal goals to support UDL
LearnersUnderstand
how they learn best
Self selects and uses
appropriate tools to support
learning tasks
Becomes a self directed
and independent
learner
Are the benefits
worth the time
investment?
Does UDL benefit the
learning of my students?
Does adding UDL benefit
the function of my
classroom/course? Does UDL
streamline my responsibilitie
s?
What does buy in depend upon?
Instructional Practice for UDL: Sound familiar?
Integrated Curriculum Student Choice Flexible Groups/Co-operative Learning Differentiated Instruction Differentiated Assessment Assessment for/of/as learning Inquiry UBD – Understanding by Design Social and Academic Inclusion of Students
with Exceptionalities
Ten Steps Toward Universal Design of Online Courses
1) Content first, then design.2) Provide simple, consistent navigation.3) Include an accommodation statement. 4) Choose LMS tools carefully.
Students who use assistive technology - Students receiving the accommodation of "extended time"
5) Model and teach good discussion board etiquette.6) Use color with care. Provide good color contrast.7) Provide accessible document formats.8) Choose fonts carefully.9) Convert PowerPoint™ to accessible HTML.10) If it's auditory make it visual; if it's visual make it auditory.
Removing barriers to learning by embeddingtechnology tools and resources is like...
Resources:
http://share.snacktools.com/597AE797C6F/fzc56jip
Discussions in D2L
Speech to Text Option
Audio Feedback in Assignments
Audacity Voicethread
Accessibility in Microsoft Documents Accessibility Features in Office 2010 Find and Fix Accessibility Issues in Word
2010 DemoWordDoc
Creating Accessible Documents - Word, PowerPoint and Adobe
Accessibility in Windows 7
Accessibility in Windows 7
Make your computer easier to use - get recommendations via a questionnaire. (ie. Magnifier, no keyboard, Narrator, color, sound, font size, speech recognition, touch screen. Each has an Accessibility Demo video.)
Speech Recognition -
Set up Speech Recognition - allows you to command your computer with your voice.
Apple Accessibility
Apple includes assistive technology in its products as standard features — at no additional cost. For example, iPhone, iPad, iPod, and OS X include screen
magnification and VoiceOver, a screen-access technology, for the blind and visually impaired.
To assist those with cognitive and learning disabilities, every Mac includes an alternative, simplified user interface that rewards exploration and learning. And, for those who find it difficult to use a mouse, every Mac computer includes Mouse Keys, Slow Keys, and Sticky Keys, which adapt the computer to the user’s needs and capabilities.
Apple Assistive Tech for Diverse Learners http://images.apple.com/education/docs/L360989C-US_L360989C_DiverseLearners_ff_acc.pdf
Siri
1) Settings - General - Accessibility - Vision - Speak Auto-text ON and set Speaking Rate.
2) Settings - General - Siri - ON (available for iPhone 5/4S, iPad2/3, iPad mini, iPod Touch
- to activate Siri, hold down the iPad Home button for 2 seconds
- use to open apps, set up reminders “Remind me to call my mom”, weather “What will the weather be like tomorrow?” for local or ask for a specific city (great for Social Studies and calendar work with students), send a tweet, do a web search, etc. Also, Siri with VoiceOver can speak any response texts from Siri.
Readability
takes away the clutter of the web and saves info in a personalized format. CBC News.
MyStudyBar
"MyStudyBar is a tool which helps overcome problems that students commonly experience with studying, reading and writing. The tool consists of a set of portable open source and freeware applications....MyStudyBar puts a whole range of individual and essential tools at your fingertips. Together, these... http://eduapps.org/?page_id=7
Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. Can use it to record live audio, convert old recordings, edit .mp3/.wav sound files, cut-copy-splice-mix sounds together, change speed/pitch, etc.
Easy to attach to an email or put into a website.
How - to use
Dragon Naturally Speaking - software and app
Dragon speech recognition software
makes it easier for anyone to use a computer. You talk, and it types. Use your voice to create and edit documents or emails, lunch applications, open files, control your mouse, and more. Quickly and easily capture your thoughts and ideas.
Paperport Notes App
Take note taking to a whole new level by leveraging your iPad to capture hand written notes, dictation notes, typed text, images, web content and audio.
Video example
Evernote partners with Ispeech http://thenextweb.com/apps/
2012/11/27/evernote-partners-with-ispeech-adds-text-to-speech-reading-to-its-clearly-extension-for-chrome/
Mobile Devices
iOS - iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone Vision - Built-in VoiceOver, Zoom, White on Black (
see YouTube video explaining first three), Speak Selection, Tactile Buttons, Large Text, Headset Compatibility, Audible Alerts, Digit-Eyes App, Eyeglasses App, Apple TV for magnifying text
Hearing - MonoAudio, FaceTime, Skype, Closed Captioning of
iTunes content, soundAMP R App, Sign 4 Me App, Music - podcasts, audiobooks, voice recordings, speeches, Voice Memos
Internet Explorer Accessibility in IE9 Google Chrome Chrome Vox - screen reader for visually impaired
users. Video example. Chrome Vis - magnifies any selected text on a
webpage for users with low vision. Video example. SpeakIt! - converts text into speech. DEMO Readability - takes away the clutter of the web and
saves info in a personalized format. CBC News.
10 Apps that can enhance your lessons through UDL
http://dmourlam.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/10-apps-that-can-enhance-your-lessons-through-udl/
