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Pre-assessment is Key to Designing with Intention

Catlin Tucker

This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans? Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom.

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Advancing educational equity with UDL and generative AI

eSchool News

However, we must continually push systems so that all students are able to be successful in spaces where they have ownership and feel a sense of belonging (identity). A first step towards inclusive education can be done through the adoption of UDL. Implementation of UDL requires rethinking the development and planning of lessons.

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Designing For Deeper Learning: Identifying Challenges and Prototyping Solutions

Catlin Tucker

As I facilitated these sessions, I became increasingly excited about the potential of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), blended learning, and social-emotional learning (SEL) to foster deeper learning outcomes. UDL, blended learning, and SEL can be harnessed together to create rich and meaningful learning opportunities for all students.

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Applying Universal Design for Learning in remote classrooms

Neo LMS

Many of the supports that could be relied upon in classrooms were no longer feasible online, and some of the supports that had been missing from the start exacerbated the weaknesses of the feeble systems we previously had in place. UDL was an offshoot of a movement that promoted universal design in architecture and product development.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment. Pairing a video with a discussion prompt in your learning management system is another way to drive higher-order thinking around topics, concepts, issues, and processes presented in a video.

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How to apply the Universal Design for Learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is thought to be the solution to the above problem. There are three basic principles to UDL , and before we go on to the part about how to apply it in the classroom, these principles need to be highlighted. UDL provides multiple means of representation. This answers the WHAT of learning.

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