[accessibleimage] Re: way to learn question

Lisa,

I have found that  a method similar to the one you suggest is the way to
teach about tactile graphics, with the addition that step 1. "One would read
tactiles made by others" should be accompanied by guidance and explanation
and discussion. And steps 1 and 2 should sometimes be blended or
interchanged, depending on the amount of skill and prior knowledge of the
student.

I created a lesson plan for teaching tactile maps, which I posted on this
list a while ago. It involves first exploring a familiar space and then
discussing what the most important elements are, and then placing them on a
piece of cardboard or paper with labels, and then going on to a larger
space, etc.  I also shared my lesson plan with teachers working with fully
sighted new English learners, to give them some ideas of how they could work
with students who are blind or  have low vision.

Interestingly, a number of the teachers wrote back to say that my lesson
plan provided them with the first real successes they had in teaching maps
to many of their adult sighted students! In the past they had been showing
maps and saying that they were pictures like what one would see from a
plane. But, many of the sighted immigrants and refugees, even if they had
flown, still found it difficult to understand and use maps of cities,
countries, etc. So, your three-part method is apparently what is actually
needed at one point or another in life for people with all sorts of sensory
capacities.

Best,

Sylvie

Sylvie Kashdan, M.A.
Instructor/Curriculum Coordinator
KAIZEN PROGRAM for New English Learners with Visual Limitations
810-A Hiawatha Place South
Seattle, WA  98144, U.S.A.
phone:  (206) 784-5619
email:  kaizen_esl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
web:  http://www.nwlincs.org/kaizen/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Yayla" <lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:35 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] way to learn question


Hi,
This is a theory I have, not rocket science but just what I have been
thinking. And perhaps goes along with what Silvia wrote about developing
multiple intelligences?

I was thinking that perhaps an " ideal " way to learn to use tactile
graphics one would use a troika approach.

1. One would read tactiles made by others
2. One would create own tactiles, pictures
3.One would  experience pictures in other ways that doesn't involve
touching that is through description, sound talks about art, colors, etc.

I sort of think this mirrors the way a sighted person learns about visual
information.
For both the sighted and blind person it is a learning experience of how
to understand the information transmitted to them by their senses.


Hmm what do you think?

Best,
Lisa



Lisa Yayla
Huseby Kompetansesenter
Oslo Norway
lisa.yayla@xxxxxxxxxx

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