Tonight I watched the recorded CAST UDL Symposium session by Blake Mickle Beckett entitled “Classroom Learners in Conversation about Neuroscience, Identity, and Culture.” Beckett started with her professional path and supporting her son with dislexia. During her dissertation, Beckett worked on a study focusing on five students. Beckett explained the methodology and the coding. She used backwards planning and provided options for learners. Students can analyze their own progress via prompts and advocate for themselves by suggesting tools. Beckett explained how supporting education requires public internet access and a place to select topics and participate in the bathroom. I thought the table entitled relationships among the learners with one column for the teacher and one for the students was a nice and newer ways. I appreciate how Becket structured this presentation with tables with columns for different people and ways of engaging.
