Low-Tech Teaching in the Age of AI: Strategies for accessible and successful learning

Description: Join us in person or virtually for our upcoming guest speaker event featuring Dr. Silverman, who will be presenting live via Zoom. This workshop invites faculty, staff, and graduate students to explore an important emerging question: How can instructors incorporating low-tech or no-tech approaches in the classroom ensure their courses remain accessible to all learners? This discussion will help us reconsider some of our assumptions about this topic and intentionally plan experiments in our own work around lower-tech pedagogy. We will especially discuss ways to navigate access friction, or conflicts of access needs, that may emerge for students and instructors. Participants can expect to leave this workshop with a set of recommendations for improving accessibility in low-tech classrooms and their own plan for how to consider access needs in their course designs as they plan for future semesters.

Lunch is provided for in-person attendees. Additionally, all attendees will receive a copy of Dr. Silverman’s book, Classroom Mindscapes: An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators.

This event is co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the School of Leadership and Education Sciences, and the Center for Embodied Equity and Neurodiversity.

Speaker Bio: Sarah Silverman, PhD is an independent faculty developer and instructor of Disability Studies. Her interests include accessible and feminist pedagogy, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the intersection of disability and educational technology. Her writings appear in To Improve the Academy, the blog Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, and on her newsletter Beyond the Scope. Her book Classroom Mindscapes: An Introduction to Neurodiversity for Educators is published by the University of Oklahoma Press.