User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. This is why we decided to create a planning tool for makerspaces in the classroom for you using the Design Thinking Process and Universal Design for Learning®.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. In this blog post, you’ll discover ten topics that can help you improve your online or blended classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL. Vicki: So when we personalize learning, does that mean that everybody’s doing something different in the classroom, or what does that mean to you? They may also be doing something a little bit different in how they express what they know and understand. Enhanced Transcript.

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Waterford

AUGUST 6, 2021

Then, discover a few practical ways that you can use Universal Design for Learning guidelines in your classroom—along with some examples to get you started. In this model, student engagement includes motivating students toward learning in the classroom. Additionally, you can use UDL to boost student motivation.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

For teachers, this means providing equal access to educational experiences and ensuring that all students have the support and resources they need to succeed academically, socially and emotionally. In short, UDL is a launching point for providing personalized learning experiences. What does the menu analogy look like in the classroom?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our newest book, Shift Writing into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learning , Dr. Katie Novak and I guide teachers in creating the time and space to support all parts of the writing process in the classroom. Technology access can be another barrier.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. All of these aspects of writing benefit from dedicated class time, access to peer support, and teacher feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The fundamental shift in control from teacher to learner demands that classrooms be spaces where students feel comfortable sharing their ideas, taking risks, and making mistakes. This is where the concept of psychological safety–what it is, what it looks like, and how to create it–fascinates me. 1 Preventing Errors. That’s okay.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

She plans instruction for four separate grade levels—second through fifth—and two different subject areas—math and ELA—while also deciding which classroom technology is best suited to each day’s lesson. How does she do it? EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology?

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 5, 2021

Evidence of the need for these 4 C’s is embedded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Students need opportunities to flex these muscles as they learn how to work with others. Creativity can be about allowing choice in how students access information, engage in learning, or express their learning. Collaboration.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Simultaneously, educators needed to identify what content students needed, how to organize it and how to help students access it.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The LRE ensures that students under IDEA are offered equitable access to education alongside their non-disabled peers. Under these requirements, special education students should be in the same classrooms as their peers to the maximum appropriate extent. Here are three strategies for educators to support inclusive learning: 1.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 24, 2023

MIND partnered with edWeb, a professional online community for educators, to develop this webinar series to encourage math achievement for English learners in the classroom. English learners (ELs) make up one out of every 10 students and are the fastest-growing group in public school classrooms. In total, ELs in U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2016

New guide explains benefits of UDL as a framework for creating learning-driven environments and how districts can put theory into practice. It’s a significant departure from the traditional classroom approach, and transforming a learning environment doesn’t happen overnight. ”

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In the fall of 2019, I returned to the classroom after being a teacher on special assignment for eight years. I created a spreadsheet with my EduProtocol templates so they were ready-to-access. Links on the Weekly Planner go directly to the assignment in Google Classroom. Check them out at www.eduprotocols.com.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Gaps between young people of privilege and Opportunity Youth in rates of learning needs diagnosis, college access and completion, suspension, and incarceration make a critical learning differences story that must be heard. UDL and Opportunity Youth. Redesign physical spaces in schools and classrooms to reflect the UDL framework.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

An innovative organization provides free tools and resources to make learning accessible to all students. Bring universal learning ideas to life in your classroom by creating and sharing your own educational materials. UDL Book Builder. They aren’t tied to specific math topics, so they can be taught during any classroom unit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Through SEL, students learn how to manage and regulate their emotions, identify and work through tough feelings, and serves as a foundation that supports students’ personal and academic achievements. Here’s a look at how five educators are approaching SEL integration in their districts, schools, and classrooms.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

In my first-grade classroom, a third of my students were learning English as a second language. As a public school teacher, I had to constantly evaluate how my teaching practices and materials could better include and empower the vast diversity in my classroom. Can the learner access the content in various ways?

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Students are given about 5-10 seconds to share and “whip around” the classroom. Benefit #3: The 4 C’s and UDL. The principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) are also evident. They know how to access information readily. As an educator for 27 years, Kim has been an innovator in and out of the classroom.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We touched on a variety of topics related to e-learning for schools and universities, from personalized learning to the usefulness of various edtech tools, to cybersecurity in schools, to how to meet students’ various learning needs, and everything in between. Since classrooms are so diverse, curricula need to meet this diversity.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Leveraging creativity in the classroom helps students develop a deeper understanding and make cross-curricular connections. Recently, EdSurge podcast host Carl Hooker discussed with field experts how educators can foster creativity for college and career readiness. So how can we adjust learning experiences to cultivate more creating?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Despite a growing body of research on the power of feedback, it is easy to neglect in classrooms because teachers feel pressure to cover content. This pressure results in teachers spending large chunks of time at the front of a classroom talking instead of working alongside students. A video can also make instruction more accessible.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

You learned how to Zoom, or Hangout, or Team up. Good teaching is good teaching, regardless of whether it happens in a classroom, on Zoom or any other delivery modality. Building Online Learning Communities: Effective Strategies for the Virtual Classroom ,” by Rena M. You read all the quick tips about emergency remote teaching.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

There are so many aspects of an architect’s job that serve as important reminders for us as educators about how to approach our design work. How do they plan to utilize the space? What accessibility features might make this space more user-friendly? Step #1 Get To Know The People You’re Designing For.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

In this episode, Kasey shares her best tips and ideas for creating and using digital choice boards in the K-12 classroom. You’ll learn some of the common misconceptions about creating choice boards, but most importantly, you’ll learn how to get started with utilizing the choice board for your classroom. Click To Tweet.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Go to [link] to receive free 60-day access to all of Defined Learning’s PBL resources. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to get started with Defined Learning, share some example ideas for each subject, and give you an overview of how Defined Learning can bring you to PBL excellence in your classroom.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 14, 2022

We also spend time learning how to use some technologies, and that’s a mix of my showing them things, them trying them out, and me helping individuals. These last parts stem from my classroom democracy belief, as does our opening class assignment of collaboratively determining class norms. redesign the virtual classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. On the latest installment of our monthly online discussion forum, EdSurge Live , we explored accessibility in this unusual era of emergency remote teaching.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). But do educators know how to support our requirements? If we look at a standard day in any classroom, the activities and assessments are all channelled through writing.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Access lesson plans that allow students to create water filters, design earthquake-proof structures, explore vertical farms, and much more. Also, find professional development resources such as a video on differentiated instruction or a tutorial on what engineering might look like in your classroom.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Whatever the fate of online learning, the past months have exposed some glaring disparities in access to education and technology, while families with children who have disabilities and special needs experienced significant challenges even when technology was available. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Updates "Reinventing the Classroom" Starts Wednesday Evening! Reinventing the Classroom" Call for Volunteers. Saturday, May 3rd at 12pm Classroom 2.0 LIVE Weekly Show , Classroom 2.0 No problem!

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Additionally, WiFi was in my experience generally accessible in conference rooms, and free to boot! This session always focuses on facilitating access to curriculum for LLD students through a strategic language-based focus.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum?

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