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Universal Design for Learning

Explore how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) can help educators create inclusive curricula that cater to diverse learners' needs, promoting lifelong learning skills. Discover UDL principles, tools, and technology integration in education.

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Universal Design for Learning

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  1. Universal Design for Learning • Michael O’Connor • EDTC600

  2. UDL Guidelines • The goal of education in the 21st century is not simply the mastery of content knowledge or use of new technologies. It is the mastery of the learning process. • Education should help turn novice learners into expert learners—individuals who want to learn, who know how to learn strategically, and who, in their own highly individual and flexible ways, are well prepared for a lifetime of learning. • Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps educators meet this goal by providing a framework for understanding how to create curricula that meets the needs of all learners from the start. (Cast 2012)

  3. UDL Guidelines • The UDL Guidelines are organized according to the three main principles of UDL that address representation, expression, and engagement. (Cast 2012)

  4. Principle I.Provide Multiple Means of Representation • Provide options for perception • Provide options for language, mathematical expressions, and symbols • Provide options for comprehension Effective Color Contrast Flexibility of color and contrast is a great example of customizing the display of information so that it is accessible to a broader range of users Voki is a creative and versatile text-to-speech option and serves as another great example of providing options for decoding. Digging for Answers provides a great example of an activity that encourages the acquisition of new knowledge by supplying access to appropriate background knowledge (Cast2012)

  5. Principle II.Provide Multiple Means of Action and Expression • Provide options for physical action • Provide options for expression and communication • Provide options for executive functions Camera Mouse provides options in the means of navigation by allowing students to control the mouse pointer with their heads instead of their hands. Kerproof Teacher's Page allows students to choose from several forms of media in order to communicate their ideas. The amount of information available online is overwhelming .Zoho Notebook ability to aggregate useful information into one document is an effective way to manage information and resources. (Cast 2012)

  6. Principle III. Provide Multiple Means of Engagement • Provide options for recruiting interest • Provide options for sustaining effort and persistence • Provide options for self-regulation Book Adventure allows students to choose from thousands of book titles. This provision of choice is a great way to recruit students' interest. RubiStar Creating rubrics for students to make the criteria and expectations of the assignment explicit is an effective way to heighten the salience of goals and objectives. These organizational Goal Setting Worksheets are great examples of strategies that guide students' personal goal-setting.

  7. Universal Design for Learning And Technology • Technology makes it easier and more effective to customize curriculum for learners. • Learning and demonstrating effective uses of technology is itself an important instructional outcome. • The goal of UDL is to create environments in which everyone will have the opportunity to become expert learners, and the means to get there, be it tech or non-tech, should be flexible. (Cast 2012)

  8. UDL Tools for students and the classroom • http://learninglab.org/ • http://www.google.com/earth/index.html • http://www.starfall.com/ Life skill videos with interaction quizzes, teacher guides and student activity page Take virtual adventures of neighborhood,city,state,country... Features activities and games that build decoding skills such as the pairing of sounds with letters and letter combinations.

  9. Bibliography Cast (2012). Universal Design for Learning Guidelines version 2.0. Wakefield, MA: Retrieved fromhttp://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines  Cast (2012). Cast UDL and technology. Retrieved from http://www.udlcenter .org/aboutudl/udltechnology Cast (2011). Cast UDL Lesson Builder. Retrieved from http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/ Cast (2011). Cast UDL Exploring Language. Retrieved from http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/elsel/html/index.html D. H. Rose, E. D.Jenna W. Gravel, Ed. M., and Y. M. Domings, Ed. M. (2010) UDL unplugged  the role of technology in UD Edyburn, Dave L. (2010). Would you recognize universal design for learning if you saw it? Ten propositions for new directions for the second decade of UDL, Learning Disability Quarterly, 33, 1, 33-41.  Gordon, D.T., Gravel, J.W., & Schifter, L.A. (2009). A policy reader in universal design for learning (pp. 209-218). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

  10. Bibliography Proctor, C. P., Dalton, B., & Grisham, D. L. (2007). Scaffolding english language learners and struggling readers in a universal literacy environment with embedded strategy instruction and vocabulary support. Journal of Literacy Research, 39(1), 71-93. doi:10.1080/10862960709336758 Hunt, Jessica H.; Andreasen, Janet B. (2011). Making the Most of Universal Design for Learning, Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School. 17, 3, 166-172.

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