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Creating Curricular Opportunities in the Digital Age
Universal Design for Learning
Our goals for today:
• Universal design for learning is a scientifically valid framework for guiding educational practice that (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
What is UDL?
• 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
CUSTOMIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
PRINT AND ITS DISABILITIES
THE PROMISE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Learner Variability
It’s all variable!
Learner Variability
What does this mean?
• Curriculum can work harder!
• National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard
• Higher Education Opportunity Act• Common Core State Standards Initiative• National Educational Technology Plan• UDL Bill• COMAR
UDL Policy
UDL Policy
COMAR
The UDL Framework
The UDL Guidelines
Three Core Principles
The following slides show tools we will use to better understand these guidelines throughout the semester. Don’t stress – you don’t need to learn any of them this week. This is just a quick introduction.
Where is this happening?
UDL Tools: Expert Space
UDL Tools: CAST BookBuilder
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: UDL Wheel & Mobile App
MSHA, October 2012
UDL Tools: AT Match-Up Tool
MSHA, October 2012 http://marylandlearninglinks.org/3815
Final thoughts!
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
“Start with the goal and the content. What do you want to
teach?”- David Rose, CAST
UDL is not an all or nothing proposition
Did we meet our goals?
“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
