Time for digital inclusion at scale

Developing awareness in vocational education for inclusive digital citizenship  The DAVIES vision: Digital citizenship and developing  Awareness *for Vocational and employability skills *in Inclusive practices *for the Educational setting *and for our future digital  Society and generation.   Personal tutor framework  Part of EDI - how is that currently addressed and included in the curriculum (lesson planning, representation) - are EDI team on board, digital accessibility isn’t just tech discipline. Opportunities to raise awareness  What resources would be needed for teachers and students  What support and training needed for teachers and students and what could that look like. Resources we already have and how that is presented, implemented and organised  Strategy for role based responsibilities and levels of knowledge - different roles and different specific content (e.g. WCAG isn’t a great fit for those creating for social media) - levels of t...

Calendar image and story suggestion - each month make one item of digital accessibility a focus, e.g.  What are captions? Where do we need them in education (teacher/student) - content creation and finding learning resources. Why are they important?  What else other than captions (sound and visuals) - videos with just music not good for VI. Transcripts and their benefit for everyone. Think about it, can you hear all the content and can you see all of content? Tools that add captions/collect transcripts  Students do a video - captions are important for many reasons - most people now use captions as everyday. Resources to help turn captions on in various tools, when captions need to be checked and examples. Where this can be reinforced in teaching, added by default, choosing videos, creating videos, ‘I’ve kept the captions on’ - think of when you could use and reinforce this.

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  Microsoft Accessibility Info https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-content-accessible-to-everyone-ecab0fcf-d143-4fe8-a2ff-6cd596bddc6d?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us Microsoft Accessibility at a glance bite-sized videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtSVUgxIo6KqBBGqNdPQG64f-hTs1YxFM Microsoft accessibility video training https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/accessibility-video-training-71572a1d-5656-4e01-8fce-53e35c3caaf4 Microsoft accessibility checker https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-your-content-accessible-to-everyone-with-the-accessibility-checker-38059c2d-45ef-4830-9797-618f0e96f3ab Links using colour alone  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

  https://www.figma.com/community/file/1022394680250523675/intopias-accessibility-annotation-kit

1,What is best practice for writing links in digital content? Click here Read more https://www.learntoenable.co.uk Learn to Enable website 2, What is a heading? Text you have made bigger and bold Text you have made bigger and underlined  An in-built style to apply Words using all capitals 3, Who is responsible for creating accessible digital content? Specialist developers  Web and media creators The IT department  It’s absolutely everyone’s responsibility 4, What is the social model of disability? It’s a belief that disabled people need their impairments fixed It’s a belief that disabled people should integrate more in society  It’s a belief that people are disabled by society rather than their impairments Disabled people get together socially  5, what is a best practice way of writing an accessible hashtag  LearnToEnable learntoenable Learntoenable Learn-to-enable 6, Captions on videos are beneficial to who? People with hearing impairments  People who...

This research study sits within the backdrop of digital equality and inclusion; digital knowledge and skills development and the school based educational curriculum.  E&I: The internet and digital content is paramount to today’s economy quote (Refs). Changes in digital transformation bring challenge to access. The web and digital content is woven into the fabric of today’s society. It has transformed almost every aspect of public, private and work life and is a vital part of our economy (Cabinet Office and Government Digital Service, 2014).  Terms such as Digital by default (refs) and Digital first (ref) are synonymous with this digital transformation. However, the shift to digital has presented its own challenges because the accessibility of services are variable (Disability Unit, 2021; p.90). 1 in 5 are estimated to have some form of disability or impairment  …and the issue of assistive technology not working unless content is made accessible. And many others may st...

UK DISABILITY STRATEGY The shift to digital has presented its own challenges because the accessibility of services are variable (Disability Unit, 2021; p.90). The government’s UK Disability Strategy (Disability Unit et al, 2021) points out that there is a long term challenge of capability to create services and content that is accessible to everyone (p.91). There is a high level of demand for people with the skills to produce accessible digital content from within both the public and private sectors, creating a skills shortage. This has been dubbed the ‘Accessible Technology Skills Gap’ (Disability Unit, 2021; p.91). P.91 copy the creating a profession text Making digital content accessible requires making the content clear and simple enough that most people can use it without needing to adapt it, and support those who need to adapt it, including those who use assistive technology and screen readers (Disability Unit, 2021; p.90). UK DIGITAL STRATEGY  The UK Digital Inclusion Strate...

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  Xu, W. and Zammit, K., 2020. Applying thematic analysis to education: A hybrid approach to interpreting data in practitioner research.  International Journal of Qualitative Methods ,  19 , p.1609406920918810. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1609406920918810 Peel, K.L., 2020. A beginner's guide to applied educational research using thematic analysis.  Practical Assessment, Research, and Evaluation ,  25 (1), p.2. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1390&=&context=pare&=&sei-redir=1&referer=https%253A%252F%252Fscholar.google.com%252Fscholar%253Fhl%253Den%2526as_sdt%253D0%25252C5%2526q%253Dqualitative%252Bthematic%252Banalysis%252Beducation%2526btnG%253D#search=%22qualitative%20thematic%20analysis%20education%22 Maguire, M. and Delahunt, B., 2017. Doing a thematic analysis: A practical, step-by-step guide for learning and teaching scholars.  All Ireland Journal of Higher Education ,  9 (3). https:...

Patton, K. and Parker, M., 2017. Teacher education communities of practice: More than a culture of collaboration.  Teaching and Teacher education ,  67 , pp.351-360. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0742051X17309617 Stamps, D., 2009. Communities of practice: Learning is social. Training is irrelevant?. In  Knowledge and communities  (pp. 53-64). Routledge. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?start=60&q=community+of+practice+theory&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5#d=gs_qabs&t=1699839229665&u=%23p%3DlUj-Ajx7I4oJ David Stamps uses Xerox’s Integrated Customer Service project as an example of how individuals with common sets of interests and expertise can be used to facilitate peer-driven learning. (ADDRESSING implementation at SCALE). At the center of this thinking lies the premise that work and learning are social activities, where learning occurs by doing and a shared sense of what it takes to get the job done. Although such thinking often requ...

Cajkler, W., Wood, P., Norton, J. and Pedder, D., 2013. Lesson study: towards a collaborative approach to learning in initial teacher education?.  Cambridge Journal of Education ,  43 (4), pp.537-554. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0305764X.2013.834037 Useful reference  Carter, T.J. and Adkins, B., 2017. Situated learning, communities of practice, and the social construction of knowledge.  Theory and practice of adult and higher Education ,  113 , pp.113-138. Lave, J., 1991. Situating learning in communities of practice. Riveros, A., Newton, P. and Burgess, D., 2012. A situated account of teacher agency and learning: critical reflections on professional learning communities.  Canadian journal of education ,  35 (1), pp.202-216. * binti Pengiran, P.H.S.N. and Besar, H., 2018. Situated learning theory: the key to effective classroom teaching?.  HONAI ,  1 (1). https://www.journals.mindamas.com/index.php/honai/article/view/1022 “ T...

This exploratory research concerns itself with the experiences of school teachers collaboratively planning and delivering digital accessibility awareness education. The aim is to offer some insight into the types of support teachers might need in their everyday practice if this topic were to be added to the curriculum. Phenomenology is an approach that takes fully into account complex multiple realities and the social construction of reality and has proved popular in the social sciences (Creswell, 2013; Denscombe, 1998), useful for research in education and wanting to understand the thinking of teachers and pupils (Crotty, 1998; Van Manen, 1990; Denscombe, 1998; Tesch, 1988) and is also appropriate to explore a single concept or idea such as the idea of professional growth (Creswell, 2013). It captures the essence of human experience (Heidegger, 1962) and the lived experience of human beings in the life world (Husserl, 1970) such as that of teachers. Phenomenology has several schools o...

Silverman, D., 2004. Theory, method and practice  Sue Wilkinson in Silverman (2004) Focus groups: Prior to the late 1970s focus group research was mainly used in market research but has since become popular in social science (Wilkinson, 2004; p.177) Focus group methodology is, at first sight, deceptively simple. It is a way of collecting qualitative data, which essentially involves engaging a small number of people in an informal group discussion (or discussions), ‘focused’ around a particular topic or set of issues. The informal group discussion is usually based on a series of questions (the focus group schedule), and the researcher generally acts as a ‘moderator’ for the focus group: posing questions, keeping the discussion flowing and enabling group members to participate fully (Wilkinson, 2004;  p.178). Although focus groups are sometimes referred to as ‘group interviews’, the moderator does not ask questions of each focus group participant in turn, but rather, facilitates...

Unpacking Heideggerian Phenomenology https://snrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Vol09Num01Art03.pdf Moustakas, C., 1994.  Phenomenological research methods . Sage publications.   https://books.google.com/books/about/Phenomenological_Research_Methods.html?id=pp11AwAAQBAJ Eddles-Hirsch, K., 2015. Phenomenology and educational research.  International Journal of Advanced Research ,  3 (8). https://researchonline.nd.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=edu_article Yüksel, P. and Yıldırım, S., 2015. Theoretical frameworks, methods, and procedures for conducting phenomenological studies in educational settings.  Turkish online journal of qualitative inquiry ,  6 (1), pp.1-20 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/199867 Horrigan-Kelly, M., Millar, M. and Dowling, M., 2016. Understanding the key tenets of Heidegger’s philosophy for interpretive phenomenological research.  International Journal of Qualitative Methods ,  15 (1), ...