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Assessment and Feedback

 

Learning as a journey or skill acquisition to be the best that you can be, either like interrailing between London and Rome via Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna, and Madrid, or running a swimming club for disability swimmers.


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A disability a person may have can be physical or mental, or a combination of both and will present itself along a spectrum.

Accessibility set up

On/ off

Chair, position of screen and keyboard

Touch screen - voice activated

What is being assessed? Know what they can do, believe what they could do.

Find content

Differentiate between true and false, safe and dangerous

Profile and passwords

Employability

What 10 Digital Skills do Employers most want ?


  1. The ability to understand and utilize social media effectively. 

  2. Search engine marketing

  3. Analytics

  4. Content marketing

  5. Email 

  6. Mobile

  7. Strategy & Planning

  8. Social Selling

  9. Pay per click

  10. Video 

From NESTA

  • Animation

  • Multimedia production

  • Design in engineering

  • Building and maintaining IT systems and networks

  • Research and quantitative data analysis

Suggestions

  • Respond to and send email

  • Complete an online form (application)

  • Create a profile and then a CV

  • Safeguarding yourself and others

  • Take part in an online discussion

  • Do an interactive quiz

  • Find your way to x

  • Purchase a ticket

  • Decide if something is true or false

Activity 1

Simple computer related tasks

Book something

Answer a question

Communicate

Organise: a trip to the beach, to see a film... 

Activity 2

What was your grade?

Grade yourself

Grade others

Activity 3

Feedback to students based on their needs.

Complete a workbook

Yes/no answers

Add an image

Tell me your learning story

Outcome

Explain what is meant by accessibility (who it applies to and who benefits)

Explain what feedback is.

Explain how the above differ in the digital domain

List some strategies for implementing digital assessment and feedback methods for a variety of students with accessibility needs.

Create a working example of both digital assessment and digital feedback in practice



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