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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

The pandemic amplified an opportunity for school districts to truly enable students to participate in the design of their own learning. Teachers utilized a combination of technology, one-to-one engagement models, and supporting parents with in-person resources to create learning systems. New approaches should center families.

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New guide offers tips to use UDL for personalized learning

eSchool News

New guide explains benefits of UDL as a framework for creating learning-driven environments and how districts can put theory into practice. It likewise includes examples and tips from school districts that have successfully implemented a comprehensive plan to transition to student-driven learning. “How ”

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3 Steps to a More Accessible Classroom

Graphite Blog

All my students were learning how to read, and the captions helped them connect the audio to the visual representation of text. Plus, the students who struggled with attention didn't miss out on any information since they could access the content through the voice-over, the visuals in the video, and the text in the captions.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Forming Community Partnerships to Access Educational Resources In this course for school leaders, you will explore methods for seeking out and partnering with community members to gain a variety of resources for your school. Education Technology Accessibility for All Students. Learn More. Helping Special Needs Students Succeed.

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

Edsurge

UDL in the Cloud: How to Design and Deliver Online Education Using Universal Design for Learning ,” by Katie Novak and Tom Thibodeau (book), addresses accessibility in terms of digital access and disabilities. When the Tide Goes Out: Identifying and Supporting Struggling Students in Online Courses ,” by Marie A.

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Starting my 2022 Georgetown University ed tech seminar

Bryan Alexander

This will matter for the week on AR/VR/XR, since Georgetown has good amounts of gear we can use in person, but I can’t assume all students will have access to same from their individual bases. Open access definitions: SPARC and OSI. OpenStax, “Why we champion perpetual access, free of charge” [link] . UDL guidelines

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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

Edsurge

Often the college already pays for access to one of them. Either put the video on YouTube and share the link, or use a service that manages streaming, which some colleges already buy access to, she adds. I love what many of the universal design for learning people say. Do a plus one. Say to yourself, “What can I do this week?

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