PEN-International
Deafness Workshops
Planning Meeting
March 27, 2002
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Description
Partnership:
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to improve education and employment
opportunities for 6 million deaf and hardof-hearing people around the world
to enhance the capabilities of
international universities to provide these
opportunities
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Overall Goals
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Increase application of informational and
instructional technology to teaching/learning
Improve teaching, learning, curriculum
development and instructional development
Expand career education opportunities for
deaf and hard-of-hearing people
Increase access for the deaf to technology
and employment in information technology
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Objectives
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Primary:
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Initiate and foster a network of educational
institutions that provide postsecondary
education for students who are deaf and hardof-hearing
Encourage the use of innovative technologies in
this education, through supporting acquisition of
such technologies as well as faculty training and
development
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Objectives
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Enabling:
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Construct and test infrastructure for this
proposed international postsecondary
educational network
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Tianjin Technical College for the Deaf of Tianjin University of
Technology (China)
Moscow State Technical University Program for the Deaf
(Russia)
Tsukuba College of Technology (Japan)
Expand international network to include other
programs in developed and developing nations
(focus in Pacific Basin)
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Objectives
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Long-term:
Influence attitudes, practices, and policies in the
information technology industry so that people who
are deaf are not blocked from access to technology
or employment within the information technology
industry
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Motivation: Eliminate Limitation
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Present system of education does not allow
the many deaf people in the world to realize
their potential
Little action taken to correct this observed
lack of opportunity in the past
Possibility for interaction of educational
institutions exists, providing an improvement
in the quality of education through shared
information
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Implementation
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Current relationships developed into
an international network
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Key point: Collaboration
Assessment of other prospective
participant countries
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Tianjin Technical College for
the Deaf (TUT)
First international partner with
PEN-International
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TUT Faculty Development
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Needs assessment
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Networking and ISDN skills
Teaching and learning strategies for deaf
education
WWW site design to support classroom
instruction
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TUT Faculty Training
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Preliminary Training in USA
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Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf,
Supporting Learners, K—College (interpreters
provided)
7 TUT faculty members to NTID in June 2001
Symposium provided a survey of best practices and
procedures in use of educational technology with
deaf students (also, special seminars specifically for
the TUT faculty)
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TUT Faculty Training
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Training at TUT
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Follow-up training with individuals from NTID
focusing on lab networking and using the WWW to
support instruction in the lab, September 2001
Audiology seminars developed by Dean Ohnuma of
Tsukuba College of Technology (TCT), August 2001
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Offered to both TUT faculty as well as faculty from
other schools for the deaf in Tianjin
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TUT Multimedia Computer Lab
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Located in main building of TUT
“Smart classroom”
18 individual PC computers and a
teacher workstation
Arrangement allows for easy sign
language and spoken communication
Opened 3 October 2001
Used by faculty in diverse fields
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TUT Future plans
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During year two:
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Another group of TUT faculty will travel to NTID for online
and distance education training
10 TUT students will visit NTID and TCT
ISDN videoconferencing system will be installed at TUT
TUT will host a regional conference in China
for educators of the deaf to begin sharing the
knowledge and skills gathered through
partnership with PEN-International
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