{"id":862,"date":"2021-05-05T07:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/?p=862"},"modified":"2021-05-04T14:37:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T21:37:10","slug":"national-accessability-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/national-accessability-week\/","title":{"rendered":"National #AccessAbility Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week (May 30 &#8211; June 5) marks <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/campaigns\/national-accessability-week.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National AccessAbility Week in Canada<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. We encourage you to share your thinking this week on Twitter, using the hashtags #edci335 and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AccessibleCanada?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#AccessAbility<\/a>. Follow the hashtag to observe how businesses and individuals work to remove barriers to accessibility and inclusion. See more about how you can get involved <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/programs\/accessible-people-disabilities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. You do not need to be signed in to Twitter to follow a hashtag, but you do need to be signed in to post a tweet. If you are just signing up for Twitter now, you can feel free to use a pseudonym.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"National AccessAbility Week \u2013 May 31 to June 6, 2020\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3BOiWe4kBEU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We all benefit from a society and economy without barriers to inclusion<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When we consider how Canada prioritizes ensuring accessibility in the workforce, learning designers must ensure that education and training opportunities will meet all learners\u2019 needs. This week&#8217;s posts will focus on identifying and reducing barriers in our learning environments to ensure all learners can meet with success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In B. C., parents and educational staff have been lucky enough to be receiving professional development from an educator named Shelley Moore since early 2016. She regularly shares a graphic showing the <\/span><b>evolution of inclusion<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in terms of dots representing people:<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_864\" style=\"width: 686px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-image-864 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-1024x253.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-1024x253.png 1024w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-300x74.png 300w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-768x189.png 768w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-600x148.png 600w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM-945x233.png 945w, https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-10.56.17-AM.png 1026w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/blogsomemoore.com\/april-2019\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In these bubbles, the green dots represent \u201ctypical\u201d learners, and the colourful dots represent people with learning differences. In the past two years, Shelley Moore has added an additional circle to her presentation:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_865\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-image-865 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci565\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-11.08.50-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: https:\/\/blogsomemoore.com\/2016\/06\/21\/one-without-the-other\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How is this circle different? It eliminates the false premise of \u201ctypical\u201d and \u201catypical\u201d. The abundance of green dots in the image showing \u201cInclusion\u201d in the sequence above is misleading in the way that it represents &#8220;typical&#8221; learners as interchangeable and single-faceted. In reality, instructors quickly learn that there is no such thing as an \u201caverage\u201d learner, each person is as complex as the next. Using language about \u201caverage\u201d minimizes the uniqueness of all individuals and can make it seem like the ultimate goal is to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fit in. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep in mind also that there are many challenges that people face which are invisible; there may be no outward sign that a person struggles with a particular challenge, even though it affects their ability to participate.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We have the opportunity to do better with our learning designs. We can celebrate the individual strengths and value the diversity each learner brings to our learning environments and workplaces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>References:<\/h4>\n<p>Moore, S. (2016, June 22). One Without the Other. Retrieved from https:\/\/blogsomemoore.com\/2016\/06\/21\/one-without-the-other\/<\/p>\n<p>Social Development Canada. (2020, May 28). Government of Canada. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/employment-social-development\/campaigns\/national-accessability-week.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week (May 30 &#8211; June 5) marks National AccessAbility Week in Canada. We encourage you to share your thinking this week on Twitter, using the hashtags #edci335 and #AccessAbility. 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