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Presented by the Digital Accessible Futures Lab
Event Description:
According to our universities, we have returned to normalcy — we have supposedly arrived. Normalcy has become a metonym for all of the practices, spaces, pedagogies, and modes of relation that we are expected to desire. “Care” and “flexibility” flicker as vestiges of a supposedly post-covid past, the future of remote learning remains uncertain, and rigor looms centrally in the refiguration of f2f pedagogy.
This workshop asks us to consider what it means to crip the classroom. What does it mean to teach crip? What does it mean to learn or teach while crip? Panelists will offer a series of short lightning talks that consider:
strategies for teaching in ableist environments,
how to provide support and build community for disabled students,
resisting digital patchwork approaches for accommodating neurodivergent learners, and
how to do access labor without sacrificing your own wellbeing.
Panelists
David Adelman — Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Accessible Futures Lab & Digital Studies Institute
Tess Carichner — BSN Student, School of Nursing; Research Assistant, Digital Accessible Futures Lab
Elise Nagy — PhD Candidate, English & Women’s and Gender Studies; Graduate Student Research Assistant, Digital Accessible Futures Lab
M. Remi Yergeau — Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor, Digital Studies & English; Director, Digital Accessible Futures Lab
Accessibility
CART will be provided. For more information about accessibility, please contact dsi-administration@umich.edu.