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The ACCESS Project website at Colorado State University has provided excellent UDL Teaching Resources that includes UDL Quick Tips. In addition there is a set of UDL Techinical Modules on how to Universally Design... > Microsoft Word > Microsoft PowerPoint > Adobe PDF > HTML > Multimedia > E-Text 
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The Springfield Technical Community College "At Ease Project"presents Universal Design for Learning - Applications in Biology>
"This video will assist viewers to gain an understanding of the principles of universal design for learning, assist in the creation of a powerful biology teaching and learning environment, envision how to incorporate universal design in their own settings to service the needs of all learners, and realize the essentialness of integrating accessible, usable, and flexible technologies into a biology curriculum."
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Matt Bergman has shared a new online search engine, Twurdy, that can support students with different readability levels.
Imagine the ability to search according to readability level! Matt has made comments in his blog on the Twurdy features that can make a difference:
"Simply type in a term and it will generate a list of different options for you. The list is color coded according to its readability level (easy to hard). Each item has a number that is generated to show its readability level. There is also a feature that allows you to show approximate ages that the articles are intended for."
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How do you personalize learning? First you need to know what personalized learning is. Here is a new site that provides resources, research, models, examples, and stories. This page provides a toolkit that can help your organization begin personalizing learning to meet the needs of all learners.
Check out the chart that compares Personalization, Differentiation, and Indivdiualization. You can download the chart and a report that explains the details of the chart. The Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments can help you determine where you are in personalizing learning.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides the framework in personalizing learning for all learners. UDL also guides the design of the Personal Learner Profile[TM]. It provides the UDL lens to select the appropriate tools for the Personal Learning Backpack[TM]. UDL guides how Personalized Learning meets the Common Core. Via Barbara Bray, Kathleen McClaskey
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The video and audio archive of the SchoolsMovingUp webinar on "Personalize Learning to Meet the Common Core" is available. Included in these archives is a set of resources and charts that you can access. Many references are made to UDL that serves as the guide to personalize learning to meet the Common Core State Standards.
Visit the Personalize Learning website (www.personalizelearning.com) for additional information on thought leaders, research and services that can help you transform education.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this webinar on June 5th.
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CAST has announced the UDL Curriculum Toolkit, an open source application, that supports the creation of flexible, customizable educational materials that allow all learners to progress to their full potential. The UDL Toolkit can be used to enhance your existing curriculum or to build a web-based unit from scratch.
"The UDL Curriculum Toolkit is a web-based platform that allows for the development and publication of web-based curricula and other content built according to the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)."
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How can Personalized Learning support the Common Core standards? Are you wondering how teachers can create personalized learning environments that support the diversity of learners in their classroom along with meeting the new CCSS?
Kathleen McClaskey, President and Digital Learning Consultant, EdTech Associates and Barbara Bray, Creative Learning Strategist, Rethinking Learning, will share the first steps in moving to a personalized learning environment to help each learner understand how they learn best, including:
> Understanding the differences between differentiation, individualization and personalization
> An overview of Universal Design of Learning and Personal Learner Profiles
> An example of a classroom redesign to support personalized learning environments
> Examples of three personal learner profiles, one Common Core ELA standard, and scenarios of how these diverse learners are supported and use multiple approaches to meet the standard
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Boston College is offering "Leadership Colloquium on Universal Design for Learning" this summer.
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From the National Center on Instructional Materials, the PALM Initiative was launched to ensure that materials used in the classroom are designed to be useable by all students from the start.
"PALM Beliefs: > No student should be denied the right to a high quality education > All education settings should be accessible to every student > All materials, in all settings, should be useable by every student from the start > Schools cannot rely on parallel delivery systems or on costly and difficult accommodations
PALM Objectives: > Bring accessibility into the lexicon and daily activities of educators and others who purchase learning materials > Increase the number of educators who are seeking and purchasing materials that are useable by all students from the start"
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The Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) Version One chart needed to be updated. Why? Because of the considerable feedback we received after posting our first version of the chart. Some of the feedback was about consistency and flow across the stages. What worked in what stage?
We definitely want to thank those that critiqued the stages for us and helped us with this version two. Some districts shared with us that our version one was going to be their foundation of their personalized learning initiative. We wanted to refine it so it was clear, consistent, and easily understood. We went to work to update the stages for them and anyone else moving to a personalized learning environment.
Please feel free to download version two and let us know how it supports your transformation to personalizing learning.
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Patti Ralabate, Director of the UDL Center, provides an excellent overview of UDL, UDL in action and case studies that offer an in depth look in how to apply the UDL principles to support student learning.
Applying UDL within a classroom or for a caseload of students starts with three initial steps: define appropriate goals that allow for multiple means of attainment, assess diverse learner needs, and evaluate barriers that may exist within the current curriculum.
Meeting all students' needs:
The UDL framework provides a flexible, responsive curriculum that reduces or eliminates barriers to learning. Using a UDL approach, SLPs and other educators offer curriculum options that present information and content in varied ways, differentiate the manner in which learners can express what they know, and engage students in meaningful, authentic learning. With UDL, more students are: > Engaged in their own education. > Learning in greater breadth and depth. > Achieving at higher levels. > Motivated to continue learning.
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The 2Include Me site provides both the pedagogy and technology resources that fosters the use of tools to support all learners. The have also published a resource on how UDL and DI overlap. Here is their perspective:
"Universal Design for Learning [UDL] and Differentiated Instruction are principles which impart a foundation for effective implementation of technology in the classroom, whether it be the use of online resources, web 2.0 tools, specific software or classroom technologies.
"The principles of UDL overlap with and complement the approach of differentiated education. Much of the application of UDL principles relies on the use of technology to make learning resources and environments more flexible. Within this combined approach, the classroom is inclusive by design."
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On May 8th, Glogster EDU Ambassador Lisa Parisi will demonstrate how to use Glogster EDU to address Universal Design for Learning principles.
Description: "All teachers now need to learn to work with children with learning difficulties, emotional difficulties, social struggles, and/or physical struggles. One lesson for all children just won’t work. Find out how UDL and Web 2.0 tools like Glogster EDU can help us reach all children and make learning more fun for everyone."
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Paul Hamilton has share an app that can level the playing field for almost every learner. Picle is a free app that helps learners put together digital stories or multimedia presentations easily by combining photos with audio narration and sound. Imagine the creativity that could be generated with learners having the ability to express and share what they know with this easy to use app. As for teachers, Paul points out that they could present information to learners in multiple ways.
Paul has shared a video he created with Picle in his blog. Check it out!
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Stanford University IT Services includes resources for interacting with Google Apps using assistive technology. This information is directed to Stanford Google email, Google calendar and Google docs. Some of this information is helpful to the thousands of schools that are currently using Google Apps.
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Nancy Firchow writes an informative article on UDL for parents. Here are just a few excerpts of this wonderful article:
"In the future, the adaptations may be built into the curriculum materials, thanks to Universal Design for Learning* (UDL). UDL uses computer technology to create an educational environment that allows all students, including those with learning disabilities, to succeed in general education classrooms with minimal use of assistive technology (AT).
UDL embraces the concept of improved access for everyone and applies it to curriculum materials and teaching methods. Rather than rely on AT to bridge the gap between the material and the student's learning needs, materials designed using UDL concepts have built-in accommodations. Add-on technology is less often needed to translate the material into a mode that enables learning."
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Watch the Webinar on "Universal Design for Learning: Growing Momentum in States and Districts", that offers new insights about how Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is emerging as a national innovation that is transforming curriculum and instruction for all learners. It has been recently described in EdWeek as the framework to implement the Common Core.
"Here’s what you’ll learn: UDL expert, Dr. David Rose, describes the UDL framework, followed by highlights from co-author Dr. Patti Ralabate on the findings of Universal Design for Learning: Initiatives on the Move, the first comprehensive study of the use of federal funding for UDL initiatives in 14 states and over 130 local districts.
In addition, Ricki Sabia shares advocacy successes of the National UDL Task Force, Fran Sorin of the Maryland Department of Education describes successful state UDL initiatives and Dr. George Van Horn offers perspectives on UDL implementation from the Bartholomew Consolidated School District in Columbus, IN."
Download the free report - UDL: Initiatives on the Move.
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is used to design curriculum, lessons and instruction based on the diversity of the learners in their classroom.
How can UDL guide personalize learning to meet the Common Core?
When a teacher understands his/her learners through the UDL lens, he/she creates a flexible learning environment and provides opportunities for learner voice and choice. When lessons are designed using the UDL model, the lesson includes goals, methods, materials, tools, and assessments to reach and support the maximum amount of learners in the classroom.
Learners can use this model to help them understand how they learn best and what learning path they can take to become an independent expert learner, leveraging their natural abilities in the process. This process helps the learner create their personal learning profile that is understood by both teacher and learner.
The importance of this strategy is that both the teacher and the learner understand who the learner is and how they learn best. The learner and the teacher uses the UDL lens to personalize learning. So what does that look like?
An example of an 8th Grade unit on the Civil War serves as an example along with two students who can meet a number of CCSS when they choose and use the tools to support their learning.
Explore our new website, Personalize Learning (www.personalizelearning.com), to learn more about the research, models and educators who are personalizing learning.
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March 24, 2014 4:45 AM
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María Dolores Díaz Noguera's curator insight,
March 24, 2014 8:11 AM
UDL Guides Personalizing Learning to Meet the Common Core 
Nicky Mohan's curator insight,
March 24, 2014 3:14 PM
Personalized learning is what 21st Century Learning is all about
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CAST has announced an online course titled, Universal Design for Learning: A Framework for Addressing Learner Variability. (Registrations must be postmarked by June 8, 2012)
Course Description:
> the principles, applications, and research background of UDL > the convergence of assistive technologies (AT) and UDL > the ways that digital media can increase the accessibility of core instructional materials and textbooks > the way that the UDL framework can help you address learner variability > the way that the UDL framework supports the development of expert learners > how to use the UDL Lesson Design process to evaluate and redesign lessons"
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Jackie Gerstein proposes an experiential flipped classroom learning model where she believes there a great opportunity to change the predominant didactic model of education that is especially prevalent in upper elementary through graduate school education.
"UDL is a strategy, a process that provides opportunities for all students, not just those with special needs (but I believe all learners have special needs), to be successful learners. This is the same goal for the flipped classroom model designed as an experiential learning cycle.
This model has experiential learning at the core of the learning process with the content videos supporting the learning rather than being the core or primary instructional piece. Experiential learning is the process of making meaning from direct experience.. Simply put, experiential learning is learning from experience. Experiential learning can be a highly effective educational method[ It engages the learner at a more personal level by addressing the needs and wants of the individual. For experiential learning to be truly effective, it should employ the whole learning wheel, from goal setting, to experimenting and observing, to reviewing, and finally action planning. This complete process allows one to learn new skills, new attitudes or even entirely new ways of thinking. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_learning)"
Thank you Jackie for your insight in creating this model where all learners can experience success!
Steven E Teator's curator insight,
July 19, 2015 9:48 AM
This article provides some "brain science" and discusses how the flipped classroom can be applied to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL). 
asli telli's curator insight,
August 1, 2015 1:33 AM
Great article connecting UDL/brain science and experiential learning. It even integrates the "Three What " reflection method. 
wernerio's curator insight,
August 2, 2015 11:27 AM
Great article connecting UDL/brain science and experiential learning. It even integrates the "Three What " reflection method.
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Is UDL included in the Common Core?
"UDL is included in the section of the Common Core Standards called “application to students with disabilities”. In this section the authors referred to the definition laid out in the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (PL 110-135). The reference to UDL in this section may give the impression that UDL is just for students with disabilities. However, UDL not only applies to students with disabilities, it applies to all other learners as well. All students can benefit from the types of instruction used to reach learners “on the margins,” as the learning needs of all individuals vary a great deal. As such, UDL should be used within inclusive general education classrooms."
What Aligns with UDL?
"There are many ways in which the Common Core Standards align to the UDL framework. Curricula (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) designed using UDL put an emphasis on creating effective, flexible goals, and the Common Core Standards provide an important framework for thinking about what goals will be most effective."
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Paul Hamilton lists the top apps for students who struggle with text. Just 13 more ways to level the playing field!
> Paperport: Note-taking app with audio and voice recognition > Text Grabber: Turn hard copy to readable PDF > Cloudon: Do equations and other math on the iPad > Type on PDF: Complete tests on the iPad; import PDF's form Dropbox > Abilipad: Word prediction with TTS > Nebulous Notes: Text editor; integrates with DropBox > AudioNote: Combine typed and handwritten notes with built in mic to record voice. > Dragon Dictation: Easy to use voice recognition; use "Speak Selection" to read dictated work. > vBookz PDF Voice Reader: TTS for reading PDF files > GoodReader: Offers TTS for text files; works with DropBox > Idea Sketch: Create mind map and turn it into an outline. > Book Creator: Create and share multimedia projects on the iPad > Side by Side: Split iPad screen into up to customizable "windows"
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A report just released, “Universal Design for Learning: Initiatives on the Move,” for the first time looks at how UDL is being implemented and understood.
"The new study finds that that many states and districts have embraced UDL’s tenets, which call for students to be presented with information and content in different ways and for giving them multiple options to show their understanding of what they know. The instructional approach is intended to help all students, not just those with disabilities."
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"As we prepare for the Common Core State Standards to be implemented in states across the country, the information from literature and developers urges us to prepare for a "different kind of classroom."
Descriptions of this next generation of classroom paint pictures of places where self-directed learning, student choice, and engagement built around enduring understanding are paramount. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is currently being applied to both the development and assessment of Common Core State Standards to measure student achievement. UDL, with origins in the neurosciences, prescribes flexible approaches to learning that are adjusted to meet the individual needs of students."
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Matt Bergman introduces Interactives and why this is a "UDL-Friendly" site.
"When we represent materials in different ways, our student's brains make a "connection" with material. This is why visual learners find it so effective to watch video clips. They may connect with a video example during or after instruction to make connections with material. The idea is to stimulate different parts of the brain so that our students make a connection with material.
A great tool for this could be Interactives, a website that is devoted to provide educators and students with "strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curriculum areas." This site provides a variety of activities that could provide different ways of representing material, which in turn, would stimulate the learning process."
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