BPC: Project ACE: Accessible Computing Education for Visually Impaired Students

罗彻斯特理工学院提出了一项规划活动，以发展ACE项目：为视障学生提供无障碍教育。尽管辅助技术取得了进步，但参加大学水平计算机课程的视障学生相对较少。造成这一现象的重要因素包括：缺乏相关的大学前准备、缺乏榜样、缺乏资源、以及现代计算的高度视觉性。基于视觉的符号、工具和用户界面导致了视觉密集的教学，使有视觉障碍的学生难以遵循传统的课堂活动。这项计划奖助金将发展一项计划，透过开发无障碍的课堂教材、资源和教师专业发展，增加视障学生对电脑的参与。潜在的活动包括夏季和全年为学生和家长提供的基于主题的活动，鼓励他们探索网络、编程和机器人技术。这些活动将为无障碍课程发展的教师讲习班提供基础。此外，在线资源将扩大，为学生和教育提供教程、工具和讨论，将行业从业者、教育工作者和学生聚集在一起，促进对视障人士参与计算的问题和成功的探索。

The Rochester Institute of Technology proposes a planning activity to develop Project ACE: Accessible Education for visually impaired students. Despite advances in assistive technologies, relatively few visually impaired students participate in university-level computing courses. Significant factors in this under representation include lack of relevant precollege preparation, lack of role models, access to resources, and the highly visual nature of modern computing. Visually based notations, tools and user interfaces have lead to visually intensive instruction, making it difficult for students with visual impairments to follow traditional classroom activities. This planning grant will develop a project to increase the participation of students with visual impairments in computing through the development of accessible class materials, resources, and teacher professional development. Potential activities include summer and year-round, theme-based activities for students and parents that encourage exploration in networking, programming, and robotics. These activities will provide a foundation for teacher workshops in accessible lesson development. In addition, online resources will be expanded to provide students and education access to tutorials, tools, and discussion to bring together industry practitioners, educators, and students to promote the exploration of issues and successes regarding participation in computing by the visually impaired.