@liberatelearning
Person centred & values driven educational designer in #highereducation who posts about #learningdesign #pedagogy #assessment #equity #diversity #wellbeing #mentalhealth. Also a big nerd who enjoys puns and dadjokes Posts represent personal views They/Them
Excited and honoured to announce that I've been awarded a SIGCHI Special Recognition for research on gender diversity and efforts to make SIGCHI and ACM safer for transgender people.
#sigchi #superstarsofstem
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My tribe and I developed this together and it genuinely brings me joy: Equity in Action: Practical actions & advice for embedding respect, reflection, diversity & change in teaching practice. @liberatelearning.bsky.social @prudencevron.bsky.social @elzbthmccrthy.bsky.social #UDL #EduSky #AcademicSky
Went to an event I was keen on but left early due to inaccessibility
I wrote about the cost of self advocacy, shared the barriers I faced, and what's needed for #InclusiveDesign.
Read the full post and practical takeaways on LinkedIn 👇👇👇
#Accessibility #Disability
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That's a nice framework. Always good to have some focus on what students are proud of
Amazing piece!!!
I contributed to this episode (I'm at 21:55)
✅ Remember what motivates you
✅ protect the life of work-life
✅ care for community
✅ nature, meeting our needs (bodily, social, etc)
#wellbeing is hard around a #systemic threat to it. Change the system
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"Fear of tarring children with these labels once kept numbers down, are we now applying them too liberally?"
No. We are not. 😐
"It has also left a group in the cold: children who are not high functioning, who have limited communication and who struggle with daily life"
No. We have not.* You have.
As awful as this is, I'm actually not surprised. #Allies to the front, speak up for your #queer peers, we need to stand in solidarity against #oppression and #marginalisation. 🏳️🌈✊
“I’m not worried about Long Covid”
Of course you’re not. Most people weren’t worried about it, until it happened to them
This is true of most disabilities. People think they’re the exception. That we’ve done something “wrong”. It’ll be different for them
Disability can & does happen to everyone.
#equitable #learning = good teaching practice
I love these frameworks but one thing is often missing! Have a read 👇👇👇
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What practices have helped you participate in learning? Teachers: What do you think is missing to help you truly thrive?
THIS!!! FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY, STOP TURNING ELON INTO A WOMAN!! THAT JUST TELLS ME YOU HATE WOMEN AND TRANS PEOPLE
YOU CAN CALL OUT HORRIBLE PEOPLE FOR BEING HORRIBLE AND EVIL WITHOUT THROWING WHOLE COMMUNITIES YOU CLAIM TO CARE ABOUT UNDER THE BUS
It’s not “differently abled,” it’s not “special needs,” it’s not “handicapped,” or anything else, it’s disabled. Disabled is not a bad or dirty word. Disabled is accurate and there’s nothing wrong with being disabled.
Alas he has only ever coded in scratch
video from national down syndrome society
It's so key to #socialjustice, that #marginalised groups have #representation in things that will affect them. From individual to societal. It may seem like more work but you get better outcomes. Long term everyone wins
Whose voice is absent in your space?
One of my students used references & quotations invented by #ChatGPT in a presentation this week. It was a formative assessment, not counting towards the final mark, and on reflection I wasn’t clear enough about rules on AI use also applying to presentations. But it was quite instructive. 🧵
If it's sans roles and stereotypes that's a societal deconstruction required as that's where they're built and learnt.
It's so perplexing to me how there's so much investment in gendering human traits and attributes but I understand my experience of gender differs greatly from the normative
Interesting all the dad-sonas! Do you think there is space in political leadership for a fully ungendered approach or is that unrealistic in that the electorate will assign gendered expectations on the basis of how the leader presents and behaves regardless of the intention?
There’s no secret why Australia’s productivity is stagnating: much of the economy is locked up in cosy duopolies who spend their time consolidating their dominance, so they can rip customers off. Until politicans act to break them up, this will continue www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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#ADHD #wellbeing #selfcare
Self care can look very different for different people and so of course it will differ by neurotype, culture, etc.
There are good tips here
What do you find works for you?
Ahhh. Comfy is an excellent addition. I forget that clothes comfy-ness changes with duration of wearing 😅 best to that to my pre waistcoat self 😂
Cool and fancy! Well done my dude!
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#feminism #history #socialjustice
All rights were hard won. Don't allow the world to slip backwards!
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#queer #trans #nonbinary #healthandwellbeing #mentalhealth
None of this surprises me or would anyone in the community. Remember that young folks (think schooling and early post school) are particularly vulnerable. What will you do to safeguard queer well-being?
Some well-known people in our industry don’t seem to understand at all what kind of privilege they have. Honestly very tired of hearing “stop paying attention” from white men, because the things they’re talking about don’t affect their life enough (yet). Your experience ≠ everyone else’s experience.
#Facts
“Every #transphobic argument can basically be boiled down to: "I actually don't know the science at all or have a good argument here, but #trans people challenge my long held view of the #world 🌎 and it's very uncomfortable and everyone should be expected to move around my discomfort."
#Facts
#LGBTQIA2S🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
#TransSurvival