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Rekoneksi 2021: Inklusi dengan Desain Pembelajaran Universal

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Di sebuah sekolah inklusi ada desain universal yang harus matang disiapkan. Desain ini harus juga diimani oleh semua pihak yang terlibat dalam proses belajar mengajar. Tak hanya guru melainkan juga orang dewasa lain. Desain itu biasa disebut Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

UDL adalah sebuah kerangka berpikir yang memungkinkan orang dewasa menyediakan beragam pilihan kepada anak. “Anak bisa terlibat memilih cara menyerap informasi dan mengekspesikan hasil belajarnya,” kata Ana Rukma Dewi dari ECCD-RC (Early Childhood Care and Development Resource Center), sebuah pusat informasi dan layanan anak usia dini, yang berbicara pada Sabtu, 5 Juni 2021 secara daring. Menurut Ana, cara pandang UDL ini harus memungkinkan tiga aspek pembelajaran yaitu Minat & Atensi, Penyerapan Informasi, dan Ekspresi.

Dalam aspek ‘minat dan atensi’, orang dewa dipercaya mampu merangsang motivasi dan mempertahankan antuasme siswa dalam beajar. Selain itu,dalam perpekttif UDL ini orang dewasa harus bisa mengenali minat dan kekuatan (potensi) anak.

Dalam aspek penyerapan informasi, orang dewasa dituntut untuk memeberikan informasi dan materi dengan berbagai cara agar siswa mampu memahaminya dengan mudah. Orang dewasa juga wajib untuk menyediakan bergam media belajar yang disesuaikan dengan gaya belajar anak.

Sedangkan dalam aspek ekspresi, orang dewasa harus mampu menawarkan berbagai pilihan dan dukungan agar setiap siswa dapat menciptakan, mempelajari, dan berbagi informasi sesuai dengan gaya dan ekpresi siswa. Orang dewasa juga harus menyediagam beragam metode penialain yang juga disesuaikan dengan ekspresi siswa.

Informasi dan materi dibuat dengan berbagai cara agar siswa mampu memahaminya dengan mudah. Orang dewasa juga wajib untuk menyediakan beragam media belajar yang disesuaikan dengan gaya belajar anak.

Holy Rafika Dhona, MA, Dosen Komunikasi UII, dan beberapa mahasiswa klaster riset ini menggelar diskusi ini sebagai rangkaian event pemberdayaan masyarakat dalam empat tema diskusi. Diskusi kali ini adalah diskusi yang pertama. Momen diskusi bersama Ana dari ECCDRC ini merupakan bagian dari implementasi kluster Riset Komunikasi UII yaitu klaster Geography and Environmental Communication.

Diskusi dengan tajuk ‘Rekoneksi 2021: pengenalan sekolah inklusi dan praktiknya di Indonesia’ ini berusaha mendiskusikan kembali ruang-ruang belajar bagi Anak Berkebutuhan Khusus (ABK). Apakah ia sudah ideal, apakah masih sebatas jargon. “Ruang adalah konstruksi bersama termasuk juga ruang belajar untuk ABK. Sekolah inklusi selama ini sebatas slogan belaka, ”kata Dhona.

 

 

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Reconnect 2021: Inclusion with Universal Design for Learning

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In an inclusive school, there is a universal design that must be carefully prepared. This design must also be believed by all parties involved in the teaching and learning process. Not only teachers but also other adults. This design is known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

UDL is a framework that allows adults to provide a variety of choices to children. “Children can be involved in choosing how to absorb information and express their learning outcomes,” said Ana Rukma Dewi from ECCD-RC (Early Childhood Care and Development Resource Center), an early childhood information and service center, who spoke on Saturday, June 5, 2021 online. According to Ana, this UDL perspective must allow three aspects of learning, namely Interest & Attention, Information Absorption, and Expression.

In the aspect of ‘interest and attention’, the gods are believed to be able to stimulate motivation and maintain student enthusiasm in learning. In addition, in this UDL perspective, adults must be able to recognize the interests and strengths (potential) of children.

In the aspect of information absorption, adults are required to provide information and material in various ways so that students are able to understand it easily. Adults are also required to provide a variety of learning media that are adapted to children’s learning styles.

Whereas in the aspect of expression, adults must be able to offer various choices and support so that each student can create, learn, and share information according to the student’s style and expression. Adults must also provide a variety of assessment methods that are also adapted to students’ expressions.

Information and materials are made in various ways so that students can understand them easily. Adults are also required to provide a variety of learning media that are adapted to children’s learning styles.

Holy Rafika Dhona, MA, UII Communication Lecturer, and several students of this research cluster held this discussion as a series of community empowerment events in four discussion themes. This discussion is the first one. The moment of discussion with Ana from ECCDRC is part of the implementation of the UII Communication Research cluster, namely the Geography and Environmental Communication Research cluster.

The discussion entitled ‘Reconnection 2021: introduction of inclusive schools and their practice in Indonesia’ seeks to re-discuss learning spaces for Children with Special Needs (ABK). Is he already ideal, is it still just jargon? “The space is a joint construction including a study room for ABK. So far, inclusive schools have been mere slogans,” said Dhona.

 

 

 

 

 

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Kreativitas Tanpa Batas

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Kondisi difabel masih sering dianggap sebagai hambatan untuk berkarya. Sejatinya difabel tak ubahnya kebanyakan orang, memiliki kemampuan berbeda masing-masing. Ia bukan terbatas kemampuan (dis-able). Kemampuan tiap orang dapat diasah dengan program yang akomodatif sesuai kebutuhan dan potensinya. Termasuk program pemberdayaan sosial yang selama ini rutin digelar oleh Prodi Ilmu Komunikasi UII. Seperti apakah program yang melibatkan difabel oleh Komunikasi UII?

Vadhiya Rahma dan empat kawannya dari komunikasi UII angkatan 2018 menerobos stigma difabel. Ia mempelopori pelatihan produksi karya ‘tie dye’ di Komunitas Difabelzone.id. Tujuannya mengembangkan keterampilan dan meningkatkan taraf hidup bagi difabel.

“Ternyata bukan hanya kita yang berbagi ilmu ke mereka, sebaliknya justru kita mendapatkan banyak ilmu dari mereka,” ujar Vadhiya, pada Rabu (31/03/2021), ketika hadir secara daring di diskusi bulanan Pusat Studi dan Dokumentasi Media Alternatif (PSDMA) Nadim, Komunikasi UII. Menurutnya kondisi difabel bukanlah hambatan untuk berbisnis dan berkarya.

Stigma buruk terhadap difabel muncul karena memang masih banyak orang yang tidak mau kenal dan tidak mau tahu. Penggunaan diksi difabel pun sebenarnya belum banyak digunakan. Padahal kata ‘difabel’ (populer dikenal dari kependekan ‘different ability’), sebagai pilihan kata alternatif dibanding kata ‘disabilitas’ (disability) perlu selalu digaungkan.

Program yang ditawarkan Vadhiya dan tim tidak hanya memberikan pelatihan. Setelah hasil karya jadi, produk tie dye dipasarkan melalui media sosial. Program talkshow pun dilakukan. Talkshow bertajuk “How To Start Business in Young Age” memberikan inspirasi bisnis sekaligus upaya branding agar konten dapat menarik pembeli. Sementara itu, Vadhiya dan tim terbesit untuk melanjutkan program ini dengan skala yang lebih besar, seperti bazar online.

Program pelatihan ini juga didukung penuh oleh Komunitas Difabelzone.id yang sangat kooperatif. Disela acara, Irene Juliana salah satu pendamping komunitas Difabelzone.id menuturkan untuk tidak melihat teman-teman difabel sebagai orang yang mempunyai kemampuan terbatas, melainkan kemampuan yang berbeda. Ia juga menceritakan latar belakang berdirinya komunitas Difabelzone.id yang berdiri sejak 2016. Mulanya adalah Irene dan beberapa temannya melihat kurangnya fasilitas yang mengakomodir wirausaha difabel pada pasca program pelatihan keterampilan di salah satu yayasan difabel di Yogyakarta. Difabelzone.id menawarkan diri menjadi ruang alternatif bagi difabel untuk mandiri dan berkarya.

Di akhir acara, Vadhiya berharap program ini bisa menginspirasi siapa saja. Ia pun mengucapkan terimakasih kepada Difabelzone.id karena sudah diberi kesempatan untuk berbagi dan belajar. “Kita diterima dengan baik, makanya kita juga ingin memberikan feedback yang terbaik,” ucap Vadhiya di akhir sesi diskusi.

Reporter/ Penulis: Indria Juwita (Mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi UII angkatan 2017, Magang PSDMA Nadim Ilmu Komunikasi UII)

Editor: A. Pambudi W.

 

 

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The Unlimited Creativity 

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Conditions with disabilities are still often seen as an obstacle to work. In fact, people with disabilities (diffable) is actually same as most people, have different abilities. They are not dis-able. Each person’s ability can be honed with an accommodating program according to their needs and potention. Including the social empowerment program that has been routinely held by the UII Department of Communication. What is the program involving the diffable by UII Communication’s students like?

Vadhiya Rahma and four of her friends from Deartment of Communication, class 2018 broke through the stigma of disabilities/ diffable person. She pioneered the production training for producing tie dye in the Difabelzone.id Community. The goal is to develop skills and improve the standard of living for diffable person.

“It turns out that not only us who share knowledge with them, on the contrary we get a lot of knowledge from them,” said Vadhiya, on Wednesday (31/03/2021), when she was present online at the monthly discussion of the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA). Nadim, Department of Communications of UII. According to her, diffable persons are not an obstacle to doing business and working.

The bad stigma against diffables arises because there are still many people who do not want to know and do not want to know. The use of diffable diction is actually not widely used yet. Whereas the word ‘diffable’ (popularly known for its short form ‘different ability’), as an alternative word choice compared to the word ‘disability’ (dis-ability) needs to always be echoed.

Training and Marketing

The programs offered by Vadhiya and the team did not just provide training. After the work was finished, tie dye products marketed through social media. A program of talk show was held then. The talk show entitled “How To Start Business in Young Age” provides business inspiration as well as efforts branding so that content can attract buyers. Meanwhile, Vadhiya and her team were determined to continue this program on a larger scale, such as an online bazaar.

This training is also fully supported by the Difabelzone.id Community which is very cooperative. In between the event, Irene Juliana, one of the facilitators of the Difabelzone.id community, said not to see disabled friends as people with limited abilities, but different abilities. She also shared the background of the founding of the Difabelzone.id community which was founded in 2016.

Initially, Irene and some of her friends saw the lack of facilities to accommodate entrepreneurs with disabilities after a skills training program at one of the diffable foundations in Yogyakarta. Difabelzone.id offers itself to be an alternative space for people with disabilities to be independent and work.

At the end of the event, Vadhiya hoped that this program could inspire anyone. She also thanked Difabelzone.id because she had been given the opportunity to share and learn. “We are well received, that’s why we also want to give the best feedback,” said Vadhiya at the end of the discussion session.

Reporter / Author: Indria Juwita ( Department of Communications Student of UII, class of 2017, Internship in PSDMA Nadim, Department of  Communications of UII)

Editor: A. Pambudi W.