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Developing Effective Information Literacy in Staff and Students.

Developing Effective Information Literacy in Staff and Students. Supporting students with disabilities and learning difficulties. Models of excellence. Finding your way around. Making your way around. Books and borrowing. Assistive technology. The key issues.

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Developing Effective Information Literacy in Staff and Students.

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  1. Developing Effective InformationLiteracy in Staff and Students. Supporting students with disabilities and learning difficulties

  2. Models of excellence Finding your way around

  3. Making your way around

  4. Books and borrowing

  5. Assistive technology

  6. The key issues • Activity 1 – in groups of 4 or 5 assess the frequency of the following accessibility issues amongst the students you serve. • Give a score of 1 – 10 where 10 = most frequent encountered. Try to agree on a figure that represents the group, averaging if discrepancies occur. Dyslexia – learning difficulties – visual – hearing – motor – emotional/behavioural Link to spreadsheet

  7. From technology to learning How they learn What they do How to help Reading tools Reflect on knowledge / skill Introduce new knowledge / skill Exemplify new knowledge / skill Test understanding of new knowledge / skill by completing specific assignments Reflect on knowledge / skill Screen reader Interact withresources Alternative inputs Record information Visualisation tools Recording tools Plan responses Planning tools Write responses Communication tools Writing tools

  8. Good practice

  9. Meeting needs - 1 Approach Parties

  10. Meeting needs - 2 Approach Parties

  11. Expectation / anticipation • Accessibility statements • What are the main strategies in place? • What are their responsibilities? What are yours? • How have you arrived at decisions? • Who should they contact if there are problems?

  12. Evaluation • Assistive technologies • How effective are the “solutions”? • Can you track usage rates? • Do they need additional training? • Do you need additional training? • Can the user suggest improvements or alternatives? • End of year evaluations • Include accessibility issues and student suggestions for improvement.

  13. Training • Staff awareness • Training on disabilities and strategies. • Background training in disability / learning related issues, for example TechDis staff training packs. • Staff IT training • Built in features of Office and Windows eg 1, 2 • Training on key points of specific packages eg text to speech, text to MP3, word prediction. • Visits • Borrowing ideas • Playing with other people’s solutions • Liasing with Regional Support Centre team and AT box.

  14. Communication structures • Provide route ways • Create opportunities for different stakeholders to communicate. • Provide a forum • Let disabled learners to contribute to decision making processes. • Document & communicate • Note and file key discussions and decisions. • Outcomes of discussions to the relevant stakeholders.

  15. Resources • Signposting • High level • Basic • Multimedia • NLN • Capturing • D.I.Y

  16. Conclusion • Take holistic approach • Work with others inside and outside organisation • Watch for TechDis staff packs • Involve learners

  17. I've set up a discussion area on the TechDis community website where I invite all the participants in the Pershore conference to continue the discussions we had yesterday over the different ways of supporting disabled learners. I will shortly be opening up the discussion to other librarians so we could end up with a potentially rich resource. To access the site go to http://www.techdis.ac.uk/community/course/enrol.php?id=15 It will take you initially to a login page (login as a guest for simplicity). Next you'll be prompted for the course enrolment key which is "allcu". That will take you to the main site where the presentation can be reviewed and you can enter the forums and add your ideas or reply to other people's.

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