Capella University Ada Technology and Americans with Disabilities Report

One Size Does Not Fit All: Technology and ADA

Introduction

The Americans with Disabilities Act requires any organization that
receives any type of federal funding (most colleges and universities, as
well as many social service agencies and organizations) to comply with
rules regarding access for customers and clients. Equal access must be
made available to all. After visiting Capella’s Disability Services
site, you will need to consider how you as a future educator and
instructor must stay current with the law governing equal access, with
the technologies available to support equal access, and with your
institutions’ services.
There is one assignment in this unit, but you will not post a
discussion for this week. Remember to investigate all the resources
offered by the Writing Center as you will one day want to share similar
resources with your learners.

[u07s1] Unit 7 Study 1

Unit 7 Studies

Readings

Use the Internet to read the following:

• ADA.gov. (2007). Website accessibility under Title II of the ADA [PDF]. Retrieved from https://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/ch5_toolkit.pdf
• ADA.gov. (2010). gov/ta-pubs-pg2.htm” target=”_blank” title=”Select this link to launch this material in a new window.” rel=”noopener”>Information and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Retrieved from https://www.ada.gov/ta-pubs-pg2.htm
• U.S. Department of Justice: Civil Rights Division. (2003). Accessibility of state and local government websites to people with disabilities [PDF]. Retrieved from https://www.ada.gov/websites2_scrn.pdf

Read the information in these Capella Campus links:

• Disability Services.
• Assistive Technology Resources

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

• Describe challenges faced by learners with disabilities.

[u07a1] Unit 7 Assignment 1

Future Use of Technology in Teaching and Learning

Overview

While online education covers about 30% of all college courses
offered (National Center for Education Statistics, 2018), this
percentage is growing each year. In order to provide a quality education
online, colleges and universities integrate a variety of technologies
in order to make learning as interactive as possible. As a leader in the
social work field, you may be asked to teach a college course or
deliver a workshop to social work professionals. To create the most
effective learning environment, you will need to consider the various
technologies available to you for sharing your expertise with other
professionals. While technology can be an excellent tool for many, an
educator must consider ethical issues of its use: privacy rights, equal
access, and equal skills, as well as diversity in learning styles. Your
readings on adult education thus far have sensitized you to various
learning styles, educational objectives, and instructional alternatives.
Consider these as you decide what technologies you might want to
incorporate into your instruction as you share your expertise. Address
how you will take access and ability into consideration (those with
limited access to the Internet, those with visual disabilities, those
with learning disabilities, auditory learners, and more). Finally, you
will share your plan for staying current with technology innovations to
ensure your learners the best education experience possible.

Reference

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (2018). Digest of Education Statistics, 2016 (NCES 2017-094), Table 311.15. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=80

Instructions

For this assignment, you will write a paper in which you:

• Describe common technologies that currently exist for in-class and online education integration.
• Identify ethical issues of unequal access, unequal abilities, and
  diversity of learning styles related to each technology that you
  identified.
• Explain how you might use the NASW Standards for Technology in your course design.
• Introduce the specific technologies you would want to incorporate
  into an educational module that you would develop to share your
  expertise on a particular topic.
• Develop a plan for staying current with technology to be used in an educational setting.

Submit your paper to SafeAssign as a draft. Use your originality
report to review your work and to ensure that all material that reflects
the thoughts, ideas, and words of other authors is properly cited and
referenced.

Submission Requirements

• 4–6 pages, not counting cover page and references.
• No abstract required.
• Arial 12-point font.
• 8–12 peer-reviewed journal articles in references.