Bridging the Learning Divide: Technology + Universal Design = Student success
Start Date
10-11-2016 12:00 PM
End Date
10-11-2016 12:45 PM
Description
Universal design is a concept that attempts make the world equally accessible to everyone regardless of ability. This is a concept more accepted when dealing with students that have a visible disability, such as mobility or vision issues. However, students with invisible disabilities such as chronic health conditions, autism spectrum disorders, processing disorders, mental health issues, ADHD, and general learning disorders are becoming more and more detectable in our classrooms either through self-advocacy or through registering with a student disability office. Students like these are becoming more apparent in classrooms across campus and can often be found in nearly every class taught by library faculty. The success of these students in higher education is often dependent on the willingness and ability of the instructor to make concessions and to provide lessons based on the universal design for learning. The question then begs, what can we do to help these students be successful? One way is to use technology as a tool to equalize learning. The librarians on our campus are often seen as the innovators of educational technology and we take the concept seriously. This interactive workshop will include hands on demonstrations of several computer apps / programs that I use which can assist both students and faculty in making the class successful whether in a “one-shot” instruction session or an organized “for credit” information literacy course.
Bridging the Learning Divide: Technology + Universal Design = Student success
Universal design is a concept that attempts make the world equally accessible to everyone regardless of ability. This is a concept more accepted when dealing with students that have a visible disability, such as mobility or vision issues. However, students with invisible disabilities such as chronic health conditions, autism spectrum disorders, processing disorders, mental health issues, ADHD, and general learning disorders are becoming more and more detectable in our classrooms either through self-advocacy or through registering with a student disability office. Students like these are becoming more apparent in classrooms across campus and can often be found in nearly every class taught by library faculty. The success of these students in higher education is often dependent on the willingness and ability of the instructor to make concessions and to provide lessons based on the universal design for learning. The question then begs, what can we do to help these students be successful? One way is to use technology as a tool to equalize learning. The librarians on our campus are often seen as the innovators of educational technology and we take the concept seriously. This interactive workshop will include hands on demonstrations of several computer apps / programs that I use which can assist both students and faculty in making the class successful whether in a “one-shot” instruction session or an organized “for credit” information literacy course.