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Universal Design for Learning: What is it? Why use?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today, we offer one more: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) What is UDL Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences that can accommodate individual learning differences. UDL at its core is simply good teaching.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

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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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

As teachers transitioned back into classrooms, many abandoned video in favor of live instruction. Instead, students have a repository of on-demand videos they can access any time from anywhere. You can access those thinking routines in these two blog posts: Support Powerful Thinking Routines Part 1 and Part 2.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

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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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

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. Key Concepts. Online instructors may serve more as facilitators than as lecturers.

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UDL and Blended Learning: Removing Barriers with Design

Catlin Tucker

In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. It’s still common to walk into classrooms with an agenda written on the board and the teacher positioned at the front of the room.

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The Value of Digital Reading – From Beth Holland

EdTechTeacher

If we approach the process of reading with “Universal Design for Learning” as an instructional blueprint, then all students could benefit from accessibility features and not just those who may have a language-based or print-based learning disorder. Flipped Classroom. Scenario #1 – Touch & Know. Project Based Learning.

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