Decisions, decisions?


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 teachers can teach it, that in turn helps develop a toolkit.

New idea to explore?????? Based on Lewthwaite- teachers without knowledge (why concept and not the technical)

How can you engage and inform new teachers how to confidently understand and teach the foundations of digital accessibility awareness to help develop and shape a teaching toolkit for the subject?

*What knowledge do teachers have in the subject of digital accessibility awareness prior to intervention (understanding, fear, complex assumptions, preconceptions, responsibilities???)

*What activities and resources do they identify as necessary to develop a useful teacher delivery toolkit?

*What are the results of teachers piloting lessons and activities with their own learners in the classroom?

Several rounds/groups of teaching it (unit/sessions they deliver)

Teacher education students (CertEd, PGCE)

School and FE?

Socially constructed- evaluation of lessons and student assessment and output results.

Written and piloted by teachers - for teachers.

Teacher voices!! Then learner voices??

Digital for all principles, sowing seeds for the future teaching of basic digital accessibility awareness in education.

Education for our next generation of teachers and learners!!

WLZ conversation- how teachers would respond to teaching that…’not my thing’ and push back. This echoes engagement issues flagged in research papers. Yet teachers are aware of UDL principles and differentiation and this is a similar concept.

Learners don’t know, but for them to know the teachers need to know. Through the eyes and lens of teachers. If they can understand and shape learning around the basics, they too can teach them. Without teachers the implementation of teaching young people about it is flawed.



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