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Will the Current Tech Revolution Usher in a Golden Age for Special Education?

Will the Current Tech Revolution Usher in a Golden Age for Special Education?. Betsy Beaumon August 1,2013. Modernism Mania: Dawn of a Golden Age. Late 1800’s: Precursors to Modernism. Photo: Chris Moore. Late 1900’s: Internet Building Blocks. Pets.com. Photo: Howcheng. NASDAQ.

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Will the Current Tech Revolution Usher in a Golden Age for Special Education?

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  1. Will the Current Tech Revolution Usher in a Golden Age for Special Education? Betsy Beaumon August 1,2013

  2. Modernism Mania: Dawn of a Golden Age

  3. Late 1800’s: Precursors to Modernism Photo: Chris Moore

  4. Late 1900’s: Internet Building Blocks Pets.com Photo: Howcheng NASDAQ

  5. The Real Revolution

  6. Revolutionary Trends Source: Edlio.com

  7. The Dawn of Another Golden Age Source: Edtechmagazine.com Source: Gigaom Cloud Ed Tech Digital Materials Source: Silicon Angle Common Core Stds Big Data

  8. Opportunities and Challenges Born Digital Must Mean Born Accessible Inclusion Starts Now To Be Connected is to be Understood

  9. BORN DIGITAL BORN ACCESSIBLE!

  10. Benetech Education Initiatives • Bookshare Service • Accessible online library • Scale, efficiency • Getting books into students’ hands Born Accessible • Reading Tools & Training • Cloud-based Reading List • MP3 download • Web Reader • Professional dev workshops • Content Tools • Discovery • Services • DIAGRAM: R&D • Tools for accessible image creation • Technical standards • Research, training and best practice guidelines

  11. Publishing Is Changing Rapidly

  12. Accessibility Throughout the Chain

  13. Standards: Critical Building Block MathML <para><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mo>&ApplyFunction;</mo><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>)</mo><mo>=</mo><mo>(</mo><mi>x</mi><mo>+</mo><mn>10</mn><mo>)</mo></mrow></math></para> • f(x) = (x + 10) • “f of x equals open parenthesis x plus 10 close parenthesis”

  14. Accessible Content Is Good Content Structure Navigation Sections Images Longdesc DIAGRAM Content Model Text ReflowableStyle/ContentFormatting Math MathML Description Video Track: subtitles, description, etc. Tables & Lists Headers Ordering Accessible EPUB 3 Guidelines: http://idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/nav.php

  15. 10 Tips for Creating Accessible EPUB 3 Files 10 Tips: http://diagramcenter.org/component/content/article/31-standards-and-practices-overview/54-tips-for-creating-accessible-epub-3-files.html EPUB 3 Accessibility Guidelines online at: http://www.idpf.org/accessibility/guidelines/ “EPUB 3 Best Practices,” Matt Garrish (O’Reilly) Accessibility Forum: http://www.idpf.org/forums

  16. Images are Challenging (especially STEM)

  17. Formats Delivered Across Devices & Platforms Distribution: Keep or Enhance Accessibility

  18. Discovery: Finding Exactly What You Need

  19. Assume nomadic behavior Optimize for mobility Make sure platform is accessible User: Standard Mobile Platforms

  20. Inclusion Starts Now

  21. Ed Tech is Big Business

  22. New Ed Tech Players on Accessibility • “… most people are not even thinking about it. There are other hurdles just to create an online course, let alone thinking about accessibility.” • “You know, I’d love to say that [accessibility is] always addressed in the design phase.Historically, it hasn’t always been.”

  23. To Be Connected is to be Understood

  24. Big Data are Really Big IBM:Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data so much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone.

  25. Revolutionizing Education

  26. Administrator Checklist • Buy Accessible • Digital Books • Education Software & Services • Reading Devices • Include All Students • Make sure pilots of new tools and approaches are inclusive • Connect Your Data • Promote understanding of the value of data • Create pathways for leveraging data responsibly

  27. Thank You!

  28. Deep Dive Post-Keynote

  29. Discussion Points • Born Accessible – Authoring Accessible Content • Demo’s • Getting involved – DIAGRAM • What About Assessments? • Inclusion in Ed Tech – The next frontier (And other challenges) • Big Data – an opportunity in your midst? • Bigger picture – Are LD students being served?

  30. What is an Accessible Image? • Provides different mode of access to visual information contained in an image, e.g.: • Text/audio description • Tactile graphic • Sonification • Smart image • Multi-modal access

  31. Accessible Image Example About this description Author: John Doe, Ph.D. in Water Engineering Target Age: 9-12 Target Grade: 4-7 Summary The image depicts the cycle of water evaporating, turning into clouds, falling back to earth in the form of precipitation and being filtered through sediment. Long Description The image depicts the natural process of evaporation and precipitation and how rain water gets filtered and cleansed through the earth's sediment. On the left-hand side of the image is a lake... A weather event such as a rainstorm eventually returns the precipitation to the ground... The natural filtering agents in the soil... Annotation added by teacher In the winter we get snow instead of rain. Simplified Language Description The image shows how water becomes clouds, then rain, and then gets cleaned by the soil. Tactile Image [Tactile image] In the upper left corner of the tactile… Simplified Image [Simplified image] Moving front the top left corner of the image

  32. POET Image Description Tool

  33. Poet: Navigate, Contextualize, Describe

  34. Math Tools: Web-based MathTrax • Descriptions and tactile output

  35. How to Get There: Strategic Partnerships A sampling of our hundreds of partners: • AIR, USFDAISY, NCAM • Don Johnston, Humanware, Learning Ally, NLS, NIMAC • MeTRC, VDRDC • NFB, NCLD, PACER, CAST, Internet Archive • Google, Barnes & Noble, Moodle Rooms • 200 publishers • DIAGRAM Advisory Board: 27 members, 20+ working group members • Bookshare Advisory Board: 17 members (pending approval)

  36. Looking Ahead: Challenges • Interactive content • Social reading & learning • Accessibility in assessments • Research on effectiveness of new approaches • Full federated search implementation across all image repositories • Universal identifiers for images…

  37. Opportunities and Challenges Born Digital Must Mean Born Accessible Inclusion Starts Now To Be Connected is to be Understood

  38. BISG Grid http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-12-152-epub-30-support-grid.php

  39. Pass or Fail on Reading Systems • Accessible reading systems must meet basic (pass/fail) tests • Menus, controls, reading, spelling, discovery, acquisition • Support reading with eyes, ears and fingers • Work for all people

  40. Discovery of Accessible Educational Resources • LRMI is a new specification for tagging Learning Resources, as a subset of Schema.org • Led by Association of Education Publishers and Creative Commons • Other efforts have tackled accessibility (a11y) metadata • Dublin Core Accessibility • Access for All (ISO 24751, IMS Global), EDItEUR/ONIX Learn more athttp://a11ymetadata.org/

  41. Google Recipe

  42. Retail Considerations An Inclusive Experience: Can I use the standard services of your store? Identification of Content: Can I find things that address my special needs?

  43. Finding Appropriate Content Simple search today Smart filters based on metadata, rendition specifications tomorrow

  44. What Is Built-in Accessibility in Commercial Publications? • A mainstream publication • Useable directly by people reading with their eyes, ears or fingers • No need for modification • Works with screen readers • Works with other Assistive Technology (AT) • Has great navigation

  45. POET

  46. Math Helper and MathTrax

  47. Video in eBooks

  48. Video in eBooks

  49. Resources and Links • DIAGRAM Center: www.diagramcenter.org • Poet:  http://diagramcenter.org/development/poet.html • BISG Grid: http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-12-152-epub-30-support-grid.php • 9 Tips for Creating Accessible EPUB 3: http://www.diagramcenter.org/standards-and-practices/54-9-tips-for-creating-accessible-epub-3-files.html • National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM): http://ncam.wgbh.org • DAISY Consortium:  http://www.daisy.org • IDPF:  http://idpf.org • Benetech:  http://www.benetech.org • Bookshare:  http://www.bookshare.org • BN.com Nook: www.bn.com • Ingram VitalSource: http://www.vitalsource.com/Pages/home.aspx • “Accessibility in EPUB 3,” Matt Garrish: Published by O’Reilly Media http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025283.do • “508 Compliance” by Katie Cunningham: Published by O’Reilly Media, http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2414

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