Upload
vuthuy
View
214
Download
1
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
Universal Design for Learning: Leveling the Challenge for All Students
Peggy Coyne, [email protected] Boucher, [email protected]
International Literacy Association July 17, 2015 - St. Louis, MO
What we know about Variability!
Physical/Sensory Variability
Neurological Variability
Learner Variability as Demonstrated in a UDL Literacy Environment
UDL Resources
National Center on UDL- http://www.udlcenter.org/ UDL Guidelines- http://www.udlcenter.org/aboutudl/udlguidelines CAST - http://www.cast.org/ UDL Theory and Practice- http://udltheorypractice.cast.org/login Free UDL Learning Tools - http://www.cast.org/learningtools/index.html
Resources to Support Online Discussions
Access:o Text-to-Speech (TTS):
MAC- Directions to access TTS directly from the system- http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14230
PC – Directions to download Natural Reader which will read text on the PC - http://www.naturalreaders.com/
o Readability - https://www.readability.com/
Content:o Wonderpoplis - http://wonderopolis.org/o Word Generation Articles – http://wordgen.serpmedia.org/ o Yahoo Digest- https://mobile.yahoo.com/newsdigest/
Discussion Resources:o Google Docs - http://www.google.como Edublogs - http://edublogs.org/
Creation Tools:o Glogster - http://edu.glogster.com/?ref=com o Padlet $$ - https://padlet.com/ o Voice Thread $$ - http://voicethread.com/ o GoAnimate $$ - https://goanimate4schools.com/public_index
Session Discussion Questions
1. If you use the UDL framework, what have you found to be beneficial in helping you think about online inquiry, interactions with texts, or discussions?
2. When you think about variability and online inquiry, what are the biggest instructional challenges do you/we face in classrooms?
3. What instructional practices do you/we use to address the variability of students in our classrooms related to online inquiry? What works? What are the challenges?