Planning the New Normal Higher Education Landscapes and Screenscapes that work for all at Imperial Welcome to the Faculty of Medicine Postgraduate Education Conference Online 2020 The conference will begin shortly. Please bear with us for a few minutes as we allow other participants to join.
Planning the New Normal Higher Education Landscapes and Screenscapes that work for all at Imperial Preparations for online learning have sharpened the question of inclusion. Many of us – staff and students – feel ‘locked out’ of our classrooms and labs and intellectual communities. This conference is a space for surfacing the problem, and the way it appears at different stages of the staff and student journeys – course design, the experience of teaching and learning, and our academic identities.
PLAN: Prepare Learning for All Presenters Needs • Professor Sara Rankin | National Heart and Lung Institute | Two sides of the same coin - why taking account Teaching, Learning and Neurodiversity of every student and every teaching colleague • Dr Sarah Essilfie-Quaye | Faculty of Medicine Centre | when planning our programmes can't be Representation Matters: Why I’m not a Black Female ignored. Academic at Imperial • Alejandro Y Luy | Centre for Higher Education Research and Facilitators: Scholarship | Being Colour-Blind at Imperial Katie Stripe | Senior Learning Designer and • Katie Stripe | PG Education Team | Exploring the issues of Dallas Alexandrou | Operation Manager LGBTQ+ students in the new online university environment
Professor Sara Rankin
Neurodiversity in STEM 17 th September 2020 FoM PG Ed conference Sara Rankin FRSB Professor of Leukocyte and Stem Cell Biology Head Regenerative Pharmacology Group
What is Neurodiversity? • Neurological (rather than psychological) conditions, usually run in families and occur independently of intelligence • An ‘umbrella term’ used to cover a range of frequently co -occurring conditions, • dyslexia, • dyspraxia/ DCD and • ADHD • Autism Other terms spLDs Specific learning disabilities/ difficulties/differences – dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/educator/what-are-specific-learning-difficulties 6
Challenges Dyslexia Difficulties with literacy 4-10% Lack of Word finding and concentration, speech problems distractability Dyspraxia / DCD ADHD as an spLD Difficulties with planning Difficulties with priorisation, Co-ordination, Difficulties with organization, low threshold of frustration practical tasks, balance, memory, time , direction, Procrastination, risk taking. poor spatial awareness sequencing, poor listening skills 4% M <1% F Leading to frustration, low self 2-10% esteem, anxiety and depression Autism Spectrum Social and communication problems, Obsessive, difference of perspective 1%
Dyslexic scientists Dyslexic - Leonardo Da Vinci, Einstein, Faraday, Edison, Pasteur, Wright brothers. Autistic – Einstein, Cavendish, Sir Isaac Newton ADHD – John Gurdon, Bill Gates
Strengths Dyslexia 3D thought, creativity, non-linear thinking Thinking outside the box ADHD as an spLD Dyspraxia / DCD Visual composition, Quick witted, energetic, Divergent thought, ability to hyper focus, Creativity, originality, creativity empathetic, expressive, Determination, resilience, Innovative, writing gregarious. empathetic, intuitive, energetic Autism Spectrum Attention to detail, alternative way of problem solving Strongly procedural
Cognitive abilities of neurodiverse person
Support for students in HE The Excellence Fund for Learning and Teaching Innovation Developing evidence-based inclusive methodologies to make teaching at Imperial more accessible for students with specific learning differences Mr David Mooney – Mrs Kate Ippolito - Disability Advisory Principal teaching fellow in Service Education Development • Raising staff awareness of a neurodiversity -the challenges and strengths • Providing free assistive technologies available to all staff and students • Making teaching materials accessible and available in different formats • Curriculum review- Replacing exams and extended essays where possible- with multiple authentic assessment – grant writing, data analysis, public engagement activities e-resource coming soon!
Assistive technologies-
Inclusive technology in action: Mind-mapping with Mindview Mindview https://www.matchware.com/mind-mapping-tutorials
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Differences – Difficulties - Disabilities Inclusive Difference Environment Mild impact Difficulty Dyslexia ADHD Dyspraxia Autism Non inclusive Disability Environment Severe impact
Staff and student network (you don’t need a formal diagnosis) Next event- 15:30 Wednesday 21 st October Check out interview on Imperial podcast @RankinProf
What can you do? Engage with the new e-learning resource – “Making teaching accessible for students with specific learning differences” Direct students to the resource (10 min prerecorded webinar) about neurodiversity Ask students about how to improve remote teaching for them
Dr Sarah Essilfie-Quaye
REPRESENTATION MATTERS: WHY I’M NOT A Dr Sarah Essilfie-Quaye BLACK FEMALE ACADEMIC AT IMPERIAL
▪ De-colonise the curriculum ▪ Check your bias when decision making ▪ Remember representation matters! ▪ What is your student cohort? ▪ What should it be? Benchmarking! ▪ “Ring - fence” places for underrepresented groups? ▪ Is the make up of your staff the same/as diverse as student cohort? ▪ Are the management/decision making boards diverse and inclusive.
▪ Janet Stovall TEDtalk - How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace (11mins) ▪ And then set about looking at your: Real Problems, Real Numbers, Real Consequences! ▪ How to be a white ally (EDIC) ▪ Imperial As One Reading List/ BLM Resource on Teams ▪ Re:Tension (18mins) ▪ Pint of Science – Skin, Society and Science (even if it’s just the intro by De-Shaine)
Alejandro Luy
17/09/20 “I can’t see the laser pointer” Being colour blind at Imperial Alejandro Luy Project Lead (Belonging, Engagement & Community) CHERS
A bit about myself Protanomaly A type of red-green colour blindness
Ishihara Colour Blindness Test plates
https://usabilla.com/blog/how-to-design-for-color-blindness/
The Science • We have 3 types of photo-sensitive cells in our eyes • L – Long wavelengths (the red-yellow cone) • M – Medium wavelengths (the green cone) • S – Short wavelengths (the blue cone) • Many types of colour blindness • Carried in X-Chromosome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness • Fully explained at www.colour-blindness.com
The Stats 1 in 12 men ≈ 8% 1 in 200 women ≈ 0.5% Have some form of colour blindness Assuming: 1/3 Women 2/3 Men Representative population…
The Stats 1 in 12 men ≈ 8% 1 in 200 women ≈ 0.5% Assuming: 1/3 Women 2/3 Men Representative population Of our 18,000 students at Imperial, likely over 1000 are colour blind !
But what is it really like? www.color-blindness.com
But what is it really like? https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/22/photos-show-how-colour-blind-people-see-the-world-8373841/
Where it becomes a problem COLOURING CHOOSING SEEING LASER INTERPRETING SAFETY CLOTHES POINTERS GRAPHS Increasing severity
Seeing Laser Pointers https://www.imperial.ac.uk/hamlyn-centre/events--global-engagement/distinguished-lectures/
Graphs
Safety https://pilestone.com/blogs/news/10-jobs-affected-by-color-blindess
How I deal with it • Context and brightness • Ask for help • Use tools such as www.imagecolorpicker.com • Colour blind Mode • Sometimes I’ll get it wrong
What you can do • Learn about it (it’s genuinely fascinating) – www.colourblindawareness.org • Take a test yourself – www.enchroma.com/pages/color-blind-test • Design with it in mind – Avoid using colours to convey information, or pair with another method (symbols, textures) – Choose contrasting colours – Tools at www.wearecolorblind.com/resources – Colour-blindness simulator https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/ • Use a bright green laserpointer or ideally no pointer at all
“I can’t see the laser pointer” Being colour blind at Imperial Alejandro Luy Project Lead (Belonging, Engagement & Community) CHERS
Katie Stripe
Thank you and please join us for Day 1 • 15:05 Adapt and Thrive • 16:05 Conference Café Day 2 - Tuesday 22nd September • 14:00 Classroom Updating – Now With Remote Control • 15:05 I-dentity, We-dentity: Co-constructing Staff + Student Professional Identities within Online Communities • 16:05 Conference Café
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