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What do you know about Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?. https :// todaysmeet.com/UDLGoucher. Creating Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age. Universal Design for Learning. Please ask questions and share comments using the following link:. https :// todaysmeet.com/UDLGoucher.
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What do you know about Universal Design for Learning (UDL)? https://todaysmeet.com/UDLGoucher
Creating Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age Universal Design for Learning
Please ask questions and share comments using the following link: https://todaysmeet.com/UDLGoucher
Our goals for today: • To get a basic understanding of UDL: • Influences and concepts (what) • Learning variability (why) • Application and use (how) • Understanding the relationship between UDL and the three brain networks (Affective, Strategic, and Recognition)
UDL: The Definition • Universal design for learning is ascientifically valid framework for guiding educational practice tha (a) provides flexibility in the ways information is presented, in the ways students respond or demonstrate knowledge and skills, and in the ways students are engaged; and (b) reduces barriers in instruction, provides appropriate accommodations, supports, and challenges, and maintains high achievement expectations for all students, including students with disabilities and students who are limited English proficient. Higher Education Opportunity Act
UDL: The Framework • a set of principles for curriculumdevelopment that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. • UDL provides a blueprintfor creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexibleapproaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs
UDL: Influences • UD • Neuroscience • Digital Technology
PRINT AND ITS DISABILITIES THE PROMISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Individuals are continually shifting. “the myth of average” Individuals exist in relationship to the environment including the classroom. Variability is the rule, not the exception. Individual qualities or abilities are not static and fixed. Variability and difference constitutes the norm from student to student even among those who seem to share similar characteristics of age, culture, level or success, race. (Hall, Meyer, Rose, 2012)
A quick variability example ... Watch Video
UDL Policy • National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard • Higher Education Opportunity Act • Common Core State Standards Initiative • National Educational Technology Plan • UDL Bill • COMAR
Where is UDL in Federal Policy and Legislation? • OSEP UDL Toolkit • UDL in • 2007 draft House NCLB bill • Higher Education Act of 2008 • House/Senate LEARN ACT • Guidance on ARRA • National Educational Technology Plan • Administration’s Blue print for ESEA • OSEP Personnel Preparation Grants
The UDL Guidelines What the PHYSICAL SPACE looks like What the TEACHER Is doing What the STUDENTis doing
Multiple Representations of the Guidelines • National UDL Center - Examples and Resources • UDL Interactive Wheel • Low Tech Wheel • UDLinks app (on android or apple device)
The Brain Networks Complete Your Three Brain Networks.
UDL Tools: CAST UDL Exchange MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: CAST e-Books MSHA, October 2012 http://readwithme.cast.org/
UDL Tools: CAST BookBuilder MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: CAST UDL Studio MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: iSolveIt App http://isolveit.cast.org/home http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbpRMkoNuY MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: Science Writer http://sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome;jsessionid=49AC32D0EA01E49264116FBEAB389068 MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: AT Match-Up Tool http://marylandlearninglinks.org/3815 MSHA, October 2012
“Start with the goal and the content. What do you want to teach?”- David Rose, CAST UDL is not an all or nothing proposition
“Ultimately, what will separate new curricula from old is that they will reflect a new ecology for learning. That new ecology will put students at the center of the learning environment. And all students will not only learn, each in their own way; they also will teach. Every curriculum will not only teach, it will learn. In so doing, we will create an optimal ecology for learning, one in which the paths to learning are rich and diverse enough for all our students.” -Rose and Gravel, 2012
Meet Dr. Katie Novak! FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Reflection What the PHYSICAL SPACE looks like What the TEACHER Is doing What the STUDENTis doing
Resources • http://cast.org/ • http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/login • http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ • http://udlexchange.cast.org/home • http://www.udlcenter.org/ • joakley@bcps.org