Digital Literacy Futures For Children
Nigel Dupree
Project Director at S.M.A.R.T. Foundation - also known as: Legin Nyleve, LeginNyleve and @l3gin on other Social Media
Simply two options going forward carrying-on regardless of 30% of children effectively being excluded from participating in learning and leaving secondary education as functionally and digitally illiterate as they arrived never mind the 2010 Equality Act S '20' "Reasonable Adjustments and/or Accommodation" and UK 2018 Accessibility Regulations to enable children to read fluently enough to engage in learning alongside their peers by making the custom reasonable adjustments to their DSE !?
Binocular Vision Stress or eye-muscle stain and fatigue is nothing new in education and was diagnosed as "School Myopia" within a relatively short period post introduction of the Mass Industrial Model Education System.
Of course, in the 21st Digital Century most of us, unless living in mansions are over-exposed to the near indoors meaning in rooms less than 20 ft deprived of natural daylight exacerbated by close-up use operation of display screen devices rarely "Colour Contrast Calibrated" adjusted to accommodate ease of access mitigating the levels of vision stress.
Customising Your DSE - Reasonable Adjustments and Accommodation