Martha's Digital Musings

 The Amazing Things I Could Do What I want to do I want to design museum exhibits for Ammon and children like him. I want to make UD (universal design) my mantra for all of my designs. Empathy will be at the heart of everything I do. I want to be the person who designs learning for those who don’t fit into a typical classroom, whether it’s because they are non-native English speakers, new parents, single parents, introverted, or impaired in any way. “ UD “defines ways of thinking about and designing environments and products that work for the greatest number of people possible” (Null, 2014, p. 12).” https://edtechbooks.org/id/designing_for_diverse_learners I want to be the person who designs learning for neurodivergent learners. I want to create culturally appropriate learning environments. I want to respect the cultures of non-native English speakers, and develop learning modules to help them learn English. I’d love to help on Native American reservations, or in southern Texas, wh...

  Do I Have the “it” Required to be a Learning Designer? Learning design is a creative process which engenders empathy for the learner at the heart of its practice. The goal of learning design is to drastically improve the nature and accessibility of learning for learners of a variety of backgrounds and instructional levels. The learner is always at the center of the creative process, and the designer engineers, creates, works, and reworks the design around the learner. Accessibility and adaptability are always at the core of the design process, and the designer is constantly learning as he or she is building and creating. “Empathic understanding is not binary, that is, it is not simply present or absent; rather, it is a skill that can be developed and deepened over time through experience and effort,” and “...the notion of an ‘average’ learner is a misnomer, and learner diversity (rather than uniformity) is actually the norm.” (Gronseth, Michela, & Oluchi Ogwi) I had a vague i...