The education conferences are starting in 2019, and today I received our new bookmarks that I’ll be handing out during booth duty. Even though we are a virtual organization and spend much of our programming teaching how to integrate technology, we’re going “old school” to drive home our mission to support literacy. On the front […]
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As I’ve been chewing on this week, here is the latest iteration of the lead paragraphs for an upcoming proposal related to accessibility: Accessibility is a top concern for educational professionals. In a recent survey by EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives, the 1,400+ respondents placed Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (e.g., “implementing effective practices and course
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In case you’re like me and missed the rollout of live captioning within Google Slides, here is a link to the announcement on the Google blog from October of 2018. h/t to Cara North who shared her observations on LinkedIn. This is an amazing enhancement and one I’ll be testing out in a few weeks in
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Building on the articles I reviewed yesterday, my deep dive into universal design (UD) continued today. Here are two literature reviews that will make my list of top finds: Rao, K., Ok, M. W., & Bryant, B. R. (2014). A Review of Research on Universal Design Educational Models, A Review of Research on Universal Design
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Today, my continued deep dive into universal design included two works that are part of a literature review I’m compiling for a conference proposal. Here are the citations, and the second is open access (yay!): Edyburn, D. L. (2010). Would you recognize universal design for learning if you saw it? Ten propositions for new directions
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Dr. Curt Bonk, Professor at Indiana University, released the update to his “monster”, the 76 page syllabus for his Emerging Learning Technologies course. See the PDF; HTML versions. When Dr. Bonk says in his blog that updating the syllabus is an exhausting exercise, we all need to take notice. As his former student, I can attest that Dr.
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As I noted in a post yesterday, we in the education field have a tendency to give different names to similar things. I used service learning as an example. I frame what we do at Designers for Learning as “service learning”, but have been told that others now use “community-engaged learning”. I did some light
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One thing we do well within the field of education is confuse everyone by either calling similar things different names (e.g., instructional designer/learning experience designer/educational technologist, etc.) or to call different things the same name (e.g., online learning). Today, I learned from a journal editor that “Service Learning” is “out” and “Community Engaged Learning” is
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As I’ve been doing deep dives into accessibility-related design issues, universal design has been something I haven’t been able to get my head around. While I have an appreciation for the general intent, much like other terms we use in education (e.g., interaction, engagement, etc.), the definitions and applications in practice are variously described making
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We frame the work we do at Designers for Learning around service learning. I’ve been working on several conference proposals where I’ve pulled (ok … self-plagiarized) a definition of service-learning from the same tired citations I’ve relied on for years: “Service learning is an educational approach that combines community service, academic coursework, and work-based experience (Bringle
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