The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We were discussing the best entry points to teach high school staff about the importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and providing all students with opportunities to become expert learners. . Expert learners in UDL are motivated, purposeful, resourceful, knowledgeable, strategic, and goal-directed.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Putting together a lesson plan in the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) format for Week 3 of my Teaching with Technology class was challenging and rewarding. I have been out of the classroom for a few years, so I felt a little rusty at formal lesson design, but the UDL model was easy to follow. lamar pedagogy UDL'

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement. 3) When will I know I’ve arrived?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

They may jump in and out of digital documents leaving comments, suggestions, and linking students to additional resources to help them develop and improve their work. In a station rotation , the teacher-led station is devoted to giving focused feedback on a specific element of the students’ work.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Yet writing well has become an increasingly important 21st century skill due to online college and job applications, as well as the reliance on email and collaborative documents in many 21st century careers. Writing is often difficult for educators to teach, challenging for students to do, and hard for administrators to monitor and evaluate.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Katie Novak , an internationally recognized expert in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and all-around awesome person, discusses this personalization of learning for students and why it is so significant : Imagine this scene in a 3rd-grade classroom: Students are sitting quietly on the floor as a teacher reads Charlotte’s Web aloud.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

Teachers indicate who the conversation captains are by putting an asterisk next to their names on whatever document they use to project the student groups. This student encourages others to share and helps to keep the group on task. If needed, the teacher can also provide a tent for the conversation captain in each group.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing can help students engage with and explore their identities, analyze the how the texts and course content impacts the way they think and feel, and document their learning to create a bridge between the curriculum and their lived experiences.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

When working with Dr. Katie Novak on UDL and Blended Learning , we provided an example of transforming an Engage NY/Eureka elementary math lesson into a choose your learning path adventure. Google Documents or Google Slides). This is a nice way to keep track of where students spend their time during a your choice station rotation. #3

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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). In the afternoon they might be given a math or science assignment where they have to document the results. They then may move on to reading a poem and answering questions.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

A choice board will give students what UDL requires through multiple means of engagement, representation, and actions or expressions of their learning. Choice boards, or learning menus, can look like several different replicas of real-life documents. Enhance capacity for monitoring progress. What are choice boards? .

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of representation. In this post, I want to explore the third, and final, UDL principle of action and expression. I highlighted some of the affordances available online that can help students to manipulate digital information to make it more accessible.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. Teachers can align blended and online learning with UDL principles and capitalize on the affordances of digital learning environments to help all students learn more effectively. YourChoiceMedia.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

In one segment, they presented a unit that might be encountered in an 8th grade Health class (I''ve seen it, though not as intense as in this example) in which students needed to engage in tasks such as documenting a nutrition diary.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

So we need to try to follow those UDL guidelines to ensure that our course materials are accessible for all, for all learners. So if you're not familiar with UDL, universal design for learning, it's a framework that was developed back in the ’90s by a group of neuroscientists, and they discovered that each person learns in a unique way.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2019

We should always be thinking about including universal design for learning (UDL) in all that we do. Check out the best practices below to create documents that will be more readable and accessible for everyone, including your students. Related: So you think you understand UDL? 4 ways to make your Google Docs more accessible.

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SpeechTechie

JANUARY 23, 2016

Last year I outlined the helpful features obtained by signing up for Read and Write for Google , a toolbar accessible in Chrome that brings to webpages and documents (particularly Google Docs) text to speech (always free) and text prediction, dictionary, and other features (via premium account or teacher subscription after 30 days).

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you create your choice boards using a digital document or slide deck, you can “make a copy” of your regular choice board and adjust them to challenge strong students or add additional supports and scaffolds for students who need them.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

I recommend that teachers use a digital document or slide deck. Digital documents and slide decks also offer a range of multimedia options that can enhance the learning experience for students. Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 24, 2021

Students can swap papers/documents and even mark up the parts of speech with highlighting. Kim incorporates best practices including WICOR, UDL, ELL. You will get an idea really quickly about what your mini lessons need to be. For the first time, we often brainstorm together. Here is the Wakelet of EduProtocols!

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