Time for digital inclusion at scale

  https://www.levelaccess.com/blog/accessibility-isnt-a-thing/ It isn’t just the muffin, it’s the flour.

 Calendars as marketing materials to have a skill a month for awareness raising campaigns. Accessibility isn’t just for GAAD it’s all year round. Use the calendar to raise awareness and focus on a set accessibility knowledge or skills each month. This way it keeps the learning focused and bite sized. Images and a QR code to find everything you need for each month. Goes to skills pages.

 Planning for workshops. Ladybird books - imagine you had to summarise some key basics in this format.

Teaching accessibility to professionals in the workplace. Teaching accessibility to learners. Teaching about accessibility or disability in schools. *List papers to explore and discuss Work out the research questions and aims to work out structure for literature review. Great quote “If a building isn’t accessible to everyone, it’s not the person that’s disabled, it’s the building. The person can’t change”

 Here is the complete list and direct links to all of the color and contrast simulation tools on the I-See-U blueprint for universal design: https://lnkd.in/gQmYd7jq ___________________________ The three tools from the list that I use the most: (1) I-See-U Universal Color Palette (https://lnkd.in/gYGAz9Yg) (2) Photoshop (https://lnkd.in/gFmfrhZ7) (3) Color Oracle (http://colororacle.org/) (4) WebAIM Contrast Checker (https://lnkd.in/gXcurQ6b)

 Another great presentation from Sarah Lewthwaite on teaching about accessibility. Emailed slides to myself today for folder on laptop.

 Medical model, social model and functional model. Discuss all to explain social model clearly - use Deque stuff (save it down) Quotes: The inventors mean well. The organizations recognizing them mean well. They're operating under the functional solutions model of disability. They think they're solving a problem. But they're not considering the ramifications… The functional solutions model of disability can and does work ... when it's done right. What does that mean? It means you involve people with disabilities from the idea stage through implementation and continuous improvement, not after it's built. It's too late if companies wait until after they go beta.

Some great books showing the type of resources or teacher packs for the delivery of PSHE and Citizenship.  

 Great paper to quote from: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2158244013487540 In this transition, social-technical advancements are said to be among the first providers of a paradigmatic shift in society, increasing technology to value creation but especially interconnectivity, generating a whole new network of people that provides the possibility of a more participatory society ( Strangelove, 1994 ). Social Constructionism: A Postmodern Approach to Knowledge Social constructionism is a theory with a philosophical framework that focuses on the processes of understanding and addressing social change in the postmodern society, in a wider sense, and on organizations specifically ( Gergen, 1994 ;  Hosking & McNamee, 2006 ). It is a theoretical movement that brings an alternative philosophical assumption regarding reality construction and knowledge production. It is concerned with the ways in which knowledge is historically situated and embedded in cultural values and p...

Employees and customers needs from your workplace. It’s not just about the web, it’s the everyday stuff too. What’s needed in digital workplace/workforce. Find out the basics people need in assistive tech, screen readers and cognitive (users needs). Sandy Ref (Wilson, 2020). Back up with literature (Refs) and reasonable adjustments (Christopherson, 20??). Explain Skills gap and built to meet that need. Introduction text. Reports and academic refs. Why not being adopted, where are we now - everyday document creation knowledge. More than just the web and web team training needs it’s about wider culture. Skills update  Research looked at ‘theories of innovation‘ model - why skills not being adopted or engaged with for mainstream skills adoption. (Refs) - low awareness and engagement. In the context of technological skills development- technology acceptance model. Alight the main variables to findings and refs in academic papers etc. Legal/compliance led/web teams assumed to be respons...

 I need to present this idea to my supervisors, and if I get the green light I’m comfortable with this, it’s based on a previous model. Similar model but instead of technical skills it’s based on understanding it from an EDI and society perspective. Preparing young people and the curriculum for a digital workplace that’s inclusive- the EU 2025 directive might be part of our next generation’s future. Start with initial prior knowledge survey - starting point to cross ref lit review - basic awareness or assumptions of complexity? Introduce basics of topic (MS model and discuss L2E examples of simple knowledge - why and what with a bit of how) Plan lessons of their own, related to own teaching context. Plan, teach, reflect and revise for next time (reflective blogs? Socially constructed collections of resources, teaching plans and reflective insight - same as Creative Commons approach. Longer term this could be sustained as a growing model. Building a community of DA champions for tea...

  Use stakeholders to build L2E website. Ensure website has core useful information  Website and induction session used to initiate teachers and their ideas Teachers plan lessons for their subject areas based on L2E Lessons observed  Can teachers put this into practice in their own learning context Initial lessons and use it as a tool to refer to Repository of teaching and learning lesson examples  Could it be a teacher education unit and learning resource? Then feed into outcomes that could be added the PSHE curriculum or extras on unit specs to consider (e.g. Digital society needs) Developing and reflecting on the ‘practice’ of teaching and learning to raise awareness about DA https://educationnorthwest.org/sites/default/files/lessonstudy-facilitator-guide.pdf https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJLLS-12-2020-0098/full/html https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJLLS-05-2013-0024/full/html https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1...

So reading around learners and getting into the classroom to coproduce a teachers toolkit to help raise awareness and teach digital accessibility or design for all/universal design. There are two lenses, is it teacher or is it learners? Do I work directly with teachers on their awareness to be able to build a toolkit to test out? Does this fit as a teacher education students project, or a classroom project. Can teachers teach it? Do I present their initial journey of learning the topic and developing idea, then their experiences teaching it to initially create, then improve the toolkit. OR Or learner response to it to develop the toolkit Essentially whose voices in the research? Pedagogy point by Sarah Lewthwaite- it’s currently taught by technical people, not teachers and teachers don’t teach it because they don’t have technical knowledge. Can I prove or test if teachers can confidently teach and raise awareness in the baseline subject. Do I then observe these lessons to answer if tea...

Selection of 10 primary schools: North Worcester Primary Academy 'Love, Learn, Live' Tel:  01905 953850 northworcesterprimary@riverscofe.co.uk John Comyn Drive, Worcester, WR3 7NS St George's C of E Primary School Tel:  01905 619454 admin@stgeorgesce.worcs.sch.uk 35 St Georges Ln N, Worcester WR1 1RD Northwick Manor Primary School Tel:  01905 454430 nwoffice@riverscofe.co.uk Northwick Road, Worcester, WR3 7EA Cranham Primary School Tel:  01905452437 cranhamoffice@riverscofe.co.uk Tetbury Drive, Warndon, Worcestershire, WR4 9LS Oldbury Park Primary School Tel:  01905 424878 office@oldburypark.worcs.sch.uk Oldbury Road, Worcester, WR2 6AA Pitmaston Primary School Tel:  01905 423710 office@pitmaston.worcs.sch.uk Malvern Road, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR2 4ZF St George's Catholic Primary School Tel:  01905 25841 admin@st-georgescatholic.worcs.sch.uk Thorneloe Walk, Barbourne, Worcester, WR1 3JY The Lyppard Grange Primary School Tel:  01905 729383 of...

 The word and the subject of digital accessibility. Teacher’s reaction and perception of the subject of digital accessibility. Is it digital, or is it relevant knowledge for our digital society. Perceptions and assumptions of the digital world. Reframe it as a learning development need for a citizen of our digital world. Making it relevant e.g. naming a curriculum ‘Piaget and learning about others in the digital world for learners in KS2’ Would wrapping it round recognisable teaching theory or context help? For young people learning about others and not being ego-centric. Introducing others needs in the digital world, we all experience needs, here are some for the everyday and digital context. Action : Perceptions of digital accessibility  Perception and engagement with teaching others needs about our digital society Recognition of learning theories they align to, theories the recognise and actively use to plan learning. Perceptions of: Universal design and a world that can wo...

 After a great meeting thrashing and talking through ideas I’m back to those good old fashioned learning theories. Thinking about justifying why KS2 I’m reading about Piaget and where ego-centric thinking starts and ends. I’m hoping to justify why KS2 and the learning developmental stage of that age group. Matched with disability papers, empathetic modelling and empathy skills development, I’m trying to ascertain ‘why’ I’ve chosen this age group. I need to spend time in the KS2 classroom to explore the theory further and check what I read matches what I see, e.g. the ‘reality’ and how do I know this is right.