I have read various classmates’ posts and I have seen how they intend to overcome barriers found in their learning designs. Canadian laws requires that all learning institutions to be inclusive of all students in their learning environment. Blog post 3 addresses barriers that could affect the blueprint project or the interactive learning resource. My idea involved the removal of barriers that exclude people with disability from learning. From this week’s readings, I understood the need of including people who are neurodiverse (autistic) when designing the blueprint project. In a learning environment, Neurodiverse students should be referred to as people with diverse or different skills rather than referring to them as people with disability.

The post by Lidingwang showed how his/her interactive learning resource will include diversity:

Blog Post #3

Lidingwang’s interactive learning resource will mainly involve narration, activities, and homework. However, the interactive learning resource will recognize that not everyone/student can keep up with face-to-face or direct instruction learning style. Therefore, the instructor will record the lessons and post them online for those who were not able to attend the face-to-face classroom.

I believe that Lidingwang’s method of recording the lessons will help many students. Not all students learn at the same speed. It is necessary to include videos of the lesson to allow students to playback the lesson to understand the concepts at their own time.

Another post that piqued my interest was Enze’s post:

Blog #3 Designing for Inclusion

Enze starts by explaining how course EDCI 335 is using inclusivity by using blog posts. Rather than having fixed times to learn and submit assignments, the use of blog posts has the ability of including people in different time zones into the learning process. In addition to such a learning approach, Enze says that students will need stay in contact with the instructor. Therefore, it is necessary for the instructor to give various methods of contact, such as emails and phone numbers.

I agree with Enze on the ideas of online blogs and mobile phone contacts. These ideas will help students from different geographic regions. Enze also helped in increasing my ideas of inclusivity because I was only thinking about neurodiverse students, while Enze thought of different time zones.