Division on Visual Impairments

VIDBE Quarterly Volume 60(1)

A quarterly newsletter from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division on Visual Impairments containing practitioner tips for Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments, Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and other professionals.

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; Lorem Ipsum Dolor Spring 2016 13 teenage boy was serendipitously reunited with his father after years of mutual wandering. Joshua built a life size 3D recreation of a hobo camp, utilizing several full size Christmas trees, a guitar, and a painted cardboard campfire (among many other things). He brought the scene to life by acting the part of a hobo, imparting life lessons on the children that visited. Each contribution was as unique as the student who created it. The multimodality of this unit grew organically, as each student-curator gravitated to a medium that best fit their authorial purpose. It may seem counterintuitive, but the more autonomy the students were granted, the more rigorously they engineered their own learning trajectories. Traditionalists may wonder if perhaps Joshua did nothing more than create a diorama-on-steroids or if Bobby simply wasted a week recording train whistle noises. Maybe a research paper would have been more worthwhile, after all. As I 45

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