Week 5 Blog

 

Universal Design for Learning


        1) Something I often think about in my current classroom, is that students are not the same style learners that they used to be. Even thinking about the last 3 years and how much things have changed. The article I read, listed that in the first sentence, The twenty-first century classroom contains students who learn differently. Learning differences or learner variability reflects the number of shifts in population and society (2022). The article discusses that while learning has changed, we must change our way of teaching. We need new ways to engage students into learning. Learning needs to be actively engaging students in a way that allows them to be involved in their learning. Representing the information in a way that captures the attention of students is important. We can do this with group presentations on the smartboard with the use of tools that create interactions. The article also discusses the importance of professional development when using the UDL practice. Professional development is used to model to educators the most effective way to teach in today's classroom. Connections that I am making to the lesson I am designing is by completing professional development in student engagement. I will use the UDL framework of modeling to my students for a clearer understanding. 

        2) Two strategies that I can include are the use of advanced organized such as the KWL method to connect prior knowledge to current knowledge. Next would be illustrate through multi media for the presentation by presenting key concepts beyond representation via text (e.g., an expository text or a math equation) with another or multiple formats (e.g., an illustration, dance/movement, diagram, table, model, video, comic strip, storyboard, photograph, animation, or physical or virtual manipulative).

        3) The National Education Technology Plan Update frames three key divides, one of which is Digital Use Divide. Digital Use Divide addresses opportunities for students to use technology to enhance their learning, including dynamic applications of technology to explore, create, and engage in critical analysis of academic knowledge (OFT, 2024). As for the lesson I have created, students can use technology integration with the use of tablets to create digital stories of the research they collected. Students can create a slideshow using graphics to demonstrate their gained knowledge. 


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Stephanie L. Craig, Sean J. Smith & Bruce B. Frey (2022) Professional development with universal design for learning: supporting teachers as learners to increase the implementation of UDL, Professional Development in Education, 48:1, 22-37, DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2019.1685563


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