Time for digital inclusion at scale

 Positionality This isn’t about learning digital skills but learning about the needs of a range of people within our digital world. Blooms https://innovativeteachingideas.com/blog/a-teachers-guide-to-blooms-taxonomy Curriculum activities ideas - PSHE curriculum Could they identify perm, temp, sit disabilities? Could they understand what principles of DA could be applied to help in those situations? Could they with help then put that knowledge (some basic digital skills principles) into practice and create accessible material - E.g a PowerPoint poster Observation and lesson reflection (teacher/researcher as subject expert) *Learning outcomes to assess: Session 1 conceptual Card sorting exercise Scenarios - what could help - worksheet to ‘match a barrier with a solution’ Session 2 practical application Poster - putting some knowledge into practice 

The web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG) were around long before the regulations. The first set WCAG 1.0 were published in 1999 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and since then have been used by designers, evaluators and legislators as the set of accepted guidelines for web accessibility  (Alonso et al, 2010; 2010b; W3C, 1999). The have have become the web standard for accessibility both in the UK and many countries internationally.  It took several years for them to be updated, with WCAG 2.0 being published in December 2008 (W3C, 2008). The core difference of the update was that WCAG 2.0 had two main goals. Firstly is was developed to be technology-independent so it could be applicable to both current and future technologies, and secondly it had testable criteria so practitioners had a way to agree about it evaluating conformance of a website (Alonso et al, 2010; Al-Khalifa and Al-Khalifa, 2011). WCAG 2.0 also had several layers of guidance. It organised 61 testab...

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Frameworks for industry training and development: https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2023/05/04/accessibility-matters-at-the-intellectual-property-office-uk-ipo/ https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/27/why-weve-created-an-accessibility-manual-and-how-you-can-help-shape-it/ Roles in government for Accessibility: https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2022/10/25/establishing-accessibility-in-the-ddat-profession/ Apprenticeship  https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/how-digital-accessibility-specialist-apprenticeship-scheme-can-benefit-your-organisation https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/digital-accessibility-specialist BSL GCSE: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/gcse-british-sign-language-bsl-proposed-subject-content?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIyMWExMDIxOS0xZDY3LTRjNDctOWY1Mi0yZDc5YTQ1NDhhYTQiLCJjb250ZW50X2lkIjoiNWUyMTZlOTAtM2Y3MS00OTllLTg0OGMtYzZlOGU2N2Y0ZGYwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjg2MzA4ODAxLCJleHAiOjE2ODg5MDA4MDF9.yGl21_R2frscxsmrQ36Wgl7Vj...

 

Write notes to populate spreadsheet using these headings. Title/author/year Type of article (review/study/reflection) High/medium/low priority paper Theoretical position Rationale Argument/claims Evidence from literature  Evidence from data (primary) Methods used My Comments Useful links to other papers Additional useful quotes

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  https://annettemarkham.com/2014/07/creatinglitreviewsasarguments/ It’s time to give my brain a break ready for the literature review over the summer. Formulating an argument and working through my key claims to uphold. Looking forward to my break away but also coming back with a refreshed mind to continue. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/how-to-structure-an-argument Key claims Background- legal, 1 in 5, UDL etc. 1, my specific are - lack of research and why more is needed - several themes have been identified: 2, gap in the workforce for both technical knowledge and everyday awareness  2.2, gap in teaching and teacher toolkits or text books  3, unlearning later in life - argument for earlier so it’s not an add-on - should be mainstream not specific to one profession e.g. web design- web regulations and the equality act 3.5 accessibility and universal design 4, literature mainly in HE - already identifying it’s a challenging area to engage interes...

Papers to review in detail: Paper by Greg Gay 2023 - Canadian focused on AODA - materials and activities Kearney-Volpe, Kate Sonka etc 2019 - materials and methods of teaching  Baker, Ross, Elglaly and Shinohara (2022) - helpful reference for planning workshops  Elglaly (2020) useful DBR example and discussion of findings to help structure mine Shi et al (2020) empathy labs - useful learning techniques and study says this is effective. Impacts on users and their situations- examples from deaf/hard of hearing, colourblindness, blindness, dexterity issues, cognitive impairments. Sarah Horton (2021) good for argument about accessibility being neglected- great comparison to online safety and papers to find- papers relating to covid pandemic. Empathy isn’t enough, it needs commitment. Look up: Lauridsen, E. (2020) Entering the accessibility space as an ally. Accessibility in real-life (YouTube)  Useful to think about: https://technologyforlearners.com/applying-blooms-taxonomy-...

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Introduce the subject area - not on curriculum. Not on places like BBC Bitesize material that young people access as OER. UDL ‘for’ learning and supporting learners with diverse needs, but no teaching ‘of’ accessibility firmly established. Prototype and pilot materials and activities to support teaching and learning. The fact it’s missing could suggest it’s considered an ‘add-on’ as it’s about making adjustments for a person with a disability (medical or functional model) yet the government strategies say social model - society making an environment that doesn’t disable, which is more suggestive of the need for this knowledge to be mainstream. (Studies show that currently these are add on or optional units - with a call from 1999 onwards that this should be mainstream - still echoed today). As an add-on it comes with unlearning, retrofitting. Because it’s an add-on there are minimal textbooks and materials to support it as a mainstream subject. This research aims to address that within...

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 Paper by Greg Gay - Canadian focused on AODA Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) Open Educational Resources (OERs) Descriptive - Course structure components described in the paper. Justification - content and activities to support the introduction and integration of digital accessibility topics over a range of subject areas, with encouragement for others to reuse the content to add accessibility related topics into their teaching. Computing and citizenship  James Duckhouse - could this be used in T-level at Worcester, could him/his students help me do it? Summarise throughout papers analysis that the key components suggested by the literature are: then list them. Describe the benefits (pedagogical and authentic learning) of each activity. Inform the development of the activities and materials on the platform. Make some examples as described in literature. Explore the 10 year old capabilities to do these. Break course down for differentiation into: Introductory principles for a...

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmjdhbk https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/2f8030d8-en.pdf?expires=1685735355&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=6FDE8A7A7BD6F706FDADC0693325BA44 https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bitesize-20 https://learning.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/blog/creating-content-for-bbc-bitesize-daily-programmes https://mediashotz.co.uk/bbc-bitesize-creates-content-for-parents-and-carers-of-kids-starting-school/ Introduction to information accessibility  Access to digital information and content. People need access to information to get guidance, do shopping, learn, make bookings, watch tv and do banking etc. Not everyone can access this equally if information isn’t created with a range of needs in mind. Some people struggle with information due to visual impairments, hearing impairments, physical and cognitive disabilities. But this isn’t because of their disability but because information hasn’t been created with them in mind. For ...

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 An instructional design framework for authentic learning environments J. Herrington University of Wollongong, janherrington@gmail.com R. Oliver Edith Cowan University, r.oliver@ecu.edu.au https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1031&context=edupapers https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/global-store/global/resources/efficacy/evidence-about-learning/Pearson-Learning-Design-Principles-Authentic-Learning-summary.pdf http://horizon.unc.edu/projects/seminars/authentic%20e-learning%20principles.pdf https://prism.ucalgary.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/21169686-81ec-4264-84f4-ec25b67fe0c6/content https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3402942.3402983 https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/irrodl/1900-v1-n1-irrodl05016/1066177ar/abstract/ https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed/research-through-design