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Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People

Tag: workflow thinking

  • Tendrils and Stacks: Assisting Flow States with a Clipboard Manager

    Tendrils and Stacks: Assisting Flow States with a Clipboard Manager

    In our highly monotropic family, we humorously but also seriously say, “Stop yanking my tendrils!” when someone crashes our stack during high memory state zone work. Interruptions are very dysregulating when they pull us out of an attention tunnel. “Tendrils” comes from “Tendril Theory”. When I’m focused on something My mind sends out a million…

  • Everyone Needs a Properly Equipped Toolbelt to Get Through Life

    Everyone Needs a Properly Equipped Toolbelt to Get Through Life

    Phones and tablets and especially laptops are essential tools for navigating modernity. Instead of being banned, they should be baked into the learning experience using toolbelt theory, workflow thinking, differentiated instruction, and Universal Design for Learning. Toolbelt Theory is based in the concept that students must learn to assemble their own readily available collection of…

  • Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text

    Contextual Computing, Workflow Thinking, and the Future of Text

    I consider text to be an indispensable part of our societies, no matter where situated on our planet. The potential permanence of the written record is vital to our recall of the past and to our ability to communicate with the future. Vinton G. Cerf, Foreword, The Future of Text We need to become better…