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Breaking It Down: Creating a Universally Accessible Makerspace

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 126A

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Presenters

Cara McGlynn

Lead School Social Worker

NEMetro 916 ISD

Cara received her Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She is a board member for the Minnesota School Social Work Association and staff for the School Social Work Association of America. Cara practices an embedded and aligned model of Restorative, Trauma Aware, and Social Emotional Learning model to work towards Educational Equity. She cares deeply about student achievement, social justice, and understands the importance of developing high structure and consistency for students that are predictably underserved. She specializes in youth mental health, trauma aware practices, special education, working with military families, and crisis work.

Emily Thomas

Technology Integration Analyst & Trainer

Northeast Metro Intermediate School Dist
@ektedtech
@ektedtech

Emily is a Technology Integrator and Trainer for Northeast Metro Intermediate School District 916, a former middle school German Teacher, and a Google Certified Trainer & Coach and ISTE Certified Educator. Throughout her time at 916, she has worked with staff and students to grow their instructional technology skills and meets everyone where they are at. Emily has presented at a variety of local, regional, national, and international conferences, both in-person and virtually. She uses her professional experiences, passion for technology, and drive to innovate student learning to inform and plan her training sessions, including one-on-one, group, and online.

Theresa Wallace

Special Projects Manager

Northeast Metro 916 Intermediate School

Theresa has been working with students with disabilities for 18 years and specializes in individualizing instruction and supports for complex learners. She carries both a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Special Education with specializations in Behavior and Autism Studies. She currently works as Lead for Consultative Services at Northeast Metro 916 Intermediate School District in Minnesota and works part time as an adjunct professor and supervisor at the University of Minnesota in their Educational Psychology Department. She spends her free time hiking and kayaking with her adorable dog Jasper.

Session description

Makerspace activities foster inclusion, are enjoyed by and engaging for all students, especially those with special education needs or accommodations. We'll share differentiation levels we created to help increase accessibility and inclusive creative spaces for all students to engage, collaborate, share, fail forward and learn together.

Purpose & objective

Participants will understand the barriers to accessibility for creative activities for learners with special education needs.
Participants will understand the importance of inclusion for all learners.
Participants will apply universal design principles to increase accessibility for all learners.
Participants will apply systematic supports to increase computational thinking strategies for all learners.

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Outline

3 minutes - Introductions
5 minutes - Research background
10 minutes - UDL and Accessibility
20 minutes - Makerspace Differentiation Levels & Computational Thinking Strategies
15 minutes - Activity
5 minutes - Takeaways
2 minutes - Questions

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Supporting research

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18qVPOYaGIsp4EsC2ypHFu-0Co1sEmKt_/view?usp=sharing - Imaginative Play in digital environments:
designing social and creative opportunities for
identity formation

https://www.cast.org/impact/universal-design-for-learning-udl

https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1061020 (Full text of article linked on page)

Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain; Zaretta Hammond

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Session specifications

Topic:

Maker activities and programs

Grade level:

PK-12

Skill level:

Beginner

Audience:

Coaches, Teachers

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

Subject area:

Special education

ISTE Standards:

For Coaches:
Learning Designer

Collaborate with educators to develop authentic, active learning experiences that foster student agency, deepen content mastery and allow students to demonstrate their competency.

For Educators:
Facilitator

Create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems.

For Students:
Innovative Designer

Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

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Breaking It Down: Creating a Universally Accessible Makerspace

, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 126A

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