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What do you know about Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?

Creating Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age

Universal Design for Learning

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• To get a basic understanding of UDL:– Influences and concepts (what)– Learning variability (why)– Application and use (how)

• Understanding the relationship between UDL and the three brain networks (Affective, Strategic, and Recognition)

Our goals for today:

• Universal design for learning is a scientifically valid framework for guiding educational practice tha

(a) provides flexibility in the ways information is presented, in the ways students respond or demonstrate knowledge and skills, and in the ways students are engaged; and

(b) reduces barriers in instruction, provides appropriate accommodations, supports, and challenges, and maintains high achievement expectations for all students, including students with disabilities and students who are limited English proficient. Higher Education Opportunity Act

UDL: The Definition

• UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size-fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs

• a set of principles for

curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn.

UDL: The Framework

• UD• Neuroscience• Digital Technology

UDL: Influences

CUSTOMIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES

PRINT AND ITS DISABILITIES

THE PROMISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES

“the myth of average”Individuals are continually shifting.

Individuals exist in relationship to the environment including the

classroom.

Variability is the rule, not the exception.Individual qualities or abilities are not static and fixed. 

Variability and difference constitutes the norm from student

to student even among those who seem to share similar

characteristics of age, culture, level or success, race. 

(Hall, Meyer, Rose, 2012)

Learner Variability

A quick variability example ...

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And another why…

• National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard

• Higher Education Opportunity Act• Common Core State Standards Initiative• National Educational Technology Plan• UDL Bill• COMAR

UDL Policy

• OSEP UDL Toolkit• UDL in

– 2007 draft House NCLB bill– Higher Education Act of 2008– House/Senate LEARN ACT– Guidance on ARRA – National Educational Technology Plan– Administration’s Blue print for ESEA– OSEP Personnel Preparation Grants

Where is UDL in Federal Policy and Legislation?

The UDL Framework

The UDL Guidelines

What the PHYSICAL

SPACE looks like

What the TEACHERIs doing

What the STUDENT is doing

BIG IDEA:

Three Core Principles

Low-tech, mid-tech, high-tech

Multiple Representations of the Guidelines

• National UDL Center - Examples and Resources

• UDL Interactive Wheel

• Low Tech Wheel

• UDLinks app (on android or apple device)

The Brain Networks

Complete Your Three Brain Networks.

UDL Tools: CAST UDL Exchange

MSHA, October 2012

UDL Tools: CAST e-Books

MSHA, October 2012 http://readwithme.cast.org/

UDL Tools: CAST BookBuilder

MSHA, October 2012

UDL Tools: CAST UDL Studio

MSHA, October 2012

UDL Tools: iSolveIt App

MSHA, October 2012

http://isolveit.cast.org/home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpbpRMkoNuY

UDL Tools: Science Writer

MSHA, October 2012

http://sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome;jsessionid=49AC32D0EA01E49264116FBEAB389068

UDL Tools: AT Match-Up Tool

MSHA, October 2012 http://marylandlearninglinks.org/3815

“Start with the goal and the content. What do you want to

teach?”- David Rose, CAST

UDL is not an all or nothing proposition

“Ultimately, what will separate new curricula from old is that they will reflect a new ecology for learning. That new ecology will put students at the center of the learning environment. And all students will not only learn, each in their own way; they also will teach. Every curriculum will not only teach, it will learn. In so doing, we will create an optimal ecology for learning, one in which the paths to learning are rich and diverse enough for all our students.”

-Rose and Gravel, 2012

Meet Dr. Katie Novak!

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Reflection

What the PHYSICAL

SPACE looks like

What the TEACHERIs doing

What the STUDENT is doing

• http://cast.org/• http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/login • http://bookbuilder.cast.org/• http://udlexchange.cast.org/home• http://www.udlcenter.org/

• joakley@bcps.org

Resources