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UDL and Cultural Variability November 17, 2016 2:00-3:00pmEST CAST free webinar series

Goals for today

•  To define & discuss cultural diversity through the UDL lens

•  To offer practical application ideas to leverage UDL to address cultural variability towards expert learning

•  What are your goals? What do you hope to learn?

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#UDLchat: 1st & 3rd

Wednesdays of the month, 9-9:30pm ET

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Poll: What is your UDL background?

1. I know what the U, D, and L stand for 2.  I have begun to integrate UDL 3.  I regularly integrate UDL 4.  I am known as the “crazy” UDL person in

my work!

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Equality versus Equity… what image might come next with UDL?

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UDL: Remove the barriers in the environment...

With us today:

Loui Lord Nelson

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Joni Degner

Reflect and share: what is your cultural identity?

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“I am a… from..” … race, gender, urban/suburban, country of origin, langauge(s), socioeconomic, literacy

… or your choice!

Reflect & share: how do you define cultural variability?

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Please make comments or ask questions throughout the conversation in the public chat box

What is cultural diversity… or cultual variability?

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What are some challenges and opportunities of cultural variability?

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How can educators use the UDL framework to design contexts to build expert learning?

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What will learning environments look like (educator practice, learner outcomes)?

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Questions or comments?

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Remove the barriers in the environment...

“Must have” resources: http://bit.ly/udl-crt Geneva Gay’s Culturally Responsive Teaching

Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive

Teaching and the Brain Chris Emdin’s talk on reality pedagogy “How UDL Can Help You Create

Culturally Accessible Classrooms”

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Additional resources: http://bit.ly/udl-crt

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Engage with CAST

Theme for the 2017 UDL Symposium:

UDL and Social Justice July 31-August 2, 2017 Boston , MA More details to come!

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Thank you!

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