This is the second in a (hopefully) three part series on the social model of disability in learning. Part one introduces the social model of disability. Part three is still mostly in my head and details how using the social model of disability has improved my training and learning design. Fundamentally, the social model of …
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This is the first in a (hopefully) three part series on the social model of disability in learning. Part two explores how to apply the social model to learning. Part three is still mostly in my head and details how using the social model of disability has improved my training and learning design. Many people who …
I was pondering about how you could use ChatGPT to help visually impaired people understand what images look like. So I thought I’d ask it to tell me about some non-famous paintings. The first painting ChatGPT described to me was Mary Cassatt’s The Rosebush. I’ve never heard of the artist before, so it’s a good …
Taking inspiration from this LinkedIn post, I started trialing gender-neutral job titles and asking ChatGPT to decide who was male or female based on the text. For example: So it’s bad when ChatGPT assumes the primary school teacher is automatically female and the police officer male. However it gets worse: According to ChatGPT CEOs, police …
At the beginning of April, I finished the first of four courses that make up H880 Technology-enhanced learning: foundations and futures. These are my takeaways from the course. Academics love an acronym, but not a definition. Technology-enhanced learning or TEL is the key concept of the whole module, but there’s no concrete definition. I found …
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At the moment I’m studying for a Masters in Online Teaching with the Open University. This week was the end of a course (the module is divided into four courses), meaning I handed in my assessment and turned to reflection. This course has the coolest reflection task I have ever seen. Firstly to say that …
At the beginning of the year, I completed the first module of my Masters: Online Teaching: Accessibility and Inclusivity. Throughout the course, we were encouraged to write weekly reflections. Here is a very much abridged but still long write-up of my key takeaways from the course. Disclosing disabilities Some students are happy to talk freely …
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Trainers and learning designers need to be able to make their learning accessible. I’ve curated an ever-evolving list of tools to help you do that. I can’t have included everything; let me know in the comments what I’ve missed. General guidelines Universal Design for Learning guidelines. This really needs its own blog post, hopefully coming …
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The assessment for the ODI’s Data Ethics Facilitators course is to deliver a 30 minute live facilitated data ethics session. Many of the participants originally claim that it is not possible, so we get them to experience an example as well as watching recordings of some previous sessions. Here is my session with the accompanying …
I was teaching my current Train the Trainer cohort about learning styles. Some people believe in them, others don’t, but I consider them to be important to know about before you can choose to adhere to or disregard them entirely. One of the theories I teach is Honey and Mumford. If you’ve not come across …