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

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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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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

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Learning is presented in a variety of modalities, such as text and audio. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. Elementary Math. Writing Prompts. Blended Learning. Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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What I’m Reading in 2024

Shake Up Learning

Deepening Digital Citizenship: A Guide to Systemwide Policy and Practice by Carrie Rogers-Whitehead It’s no secret that I have a passion for protecting kids ! In the digital age, cultivating digital citizenship is essential. Order your copy here and enhance your understanding of digital citizenship.

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PleIQ: the interactive smart toy that fosters multiple intelligences through Augmented Reality

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All learning activities are Common Core and Universal Design for Learning (UDL); any teacher in the US or abroad can experience the next ed-tech frontier of augmented reality in their classrooms. Not only is PleIQ more modern and FUN than traditional educational toys, it is also firmly rooted in educational and developmental research.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In addition, you’ll learn how to create a well-balanced presentation of your schools’ current needs to energize community members to get involved. The strategies will not only help you be more engaged, present, and fulfilled as a teacher, but you’ll also apply your learning to your classroom and your students. Learn More. Learn More.

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Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning

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High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). It enables me to capture everything, from my own speech, to recordings of a teacher’s presentation, to audiobook excerpts, directly onto my laptop as an audio file.

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The Social Learning Summit Is Tomorrow - Online and Free

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

this will also allow you to correspond with the presenters and other members, and to comment on sessions and discussions). The conference theme is the use of social media and Web 2.0 in teaching and learning, and the URL for attending is [link].