The Right to Learn Differently at DSISD Newsletter
I finally found a newsletter platform I like in Buttondown, so my “Howdy DSISD” email list is now a newsletter called “The Right to Learn Differently at DSISD”. This means you can unsubscribe. I have turned off analytics and unsubscribe notifications, so software won’t be tracking you if you stay or telling on you if you leave.
“The Right to Learn Differently” is a reference to Jonathan Mooney’s line, “The right to learn differently should be a universal human right that’s not mediated by a diagnosis.”
With that housekeeping out of the way, I’ll keep this brief. Here are links to my recent education and inclusion related writing.
- Behaviorist Ed-tech — Ed-tech from the 1940s
- We Exist As Friction
- Autism, ABA, and PBS
- Drop the B from PBS
- Ed-tech relies on amnesia.
- The Way We Work: Distributed Work
- How to Web in a Post-Employment Economy
Recommended pieces:
- Ann's Autism Blog: Autism. Is your training from the 1940s?
- Web Literacy Across the Curriculum | Hapgood
- A communal definition of autism | Autistic Collaboration
- Ann Memmott PGC on Twitter: ""But we have to deal with their behaviour". A thread about #autism, and an approach that works better than the alleged 'gold standard'. One of my roles is as a Director of @AT_Autism, working with many of the top names internationally https://t.co/tDJJagRSMl"
- Laziness Does Not Exist – Devon Price – Medium
- All in a Row Review | Shaun May
- Deep Innovation | Autistic Collaboration
- THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM: Coping with a Crisis When You Have Unreliable or Intermittent Speech
- A critique of the use of Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA): on behalf of the Neurodiversity Manifesto Steering Group
- Changing the Disability Design Narrative | UX Cake | Podcast for UX Pros
Paired text:
- Why Equity Has Been a Conservative Force in American Education—And How That Could Change - Education Week
- When “Upstream” Public Health Efforts Fall Short – Human Impact (HIP) – Medium
Simply accommodating people in systems that were never designed for their survival is inherently inequitable. We must understand how things got this way and explicitly address the systemic imbalance of power in our approaches to health equity.
Source: When “Upstream” Public Health Efforts Fall Short – Human Impact (HIP) – Medium
Likewise in our approaches to education.
Regards,
Ryan