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The Stone is Inclusivity
Yes, actually–a magic bullet does exist; no, sorry–it isn’t what they’re trying to sell you. I built this microlearning module that teaches healthcare staff to document what patients do — not what staff think it means. One Small Bird The research problem I started with was quite a small bird: autistic patients being mislabeled as…
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Silent Steps: what ADHD learners don’t get to hear
When I set about trying to zero in with absolute precision on what I, as a learner with ADHD, have been unable to access–and have witnessed my own children with ADHD being likewise unable to access–my discovery amused me. Because as I zoomed in and in and in–bringing into crisp focus the–as I said, precise–deficit,…
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It was the worst of times; it is the worst of times. Can we get a best, please?
Despite widely-harbored resistance to the idea, anyone authoring content that fails to evidence, at minimum, an attempt at universal accessibility cannot hope that said content be useful as more than, at maximum, a non-example object of study for students of instructional design. Such content is now an absurd relic from the Pedagogical Dark Ages, serving…