UDL

Students Tell Us Which Technology Works for Them

Ann Devitt and Joanne Banks from Trinity College, Dublin, presented at the CAST UDL Symposium 2022 on their project on UDL in secondary education in Europe. The recorded session was entitled “What has technology ever done for us? Second-level student voices.” Their partners included schools in Spain, Belgium, Ireland, and Greece. All partner schools worked […]
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Lessons from an Exchange of UDL Knowledge

David Evans is from the Sydney School of Education at the University of Sydney and along with Elga Andriana presented at the CAST UDL Symposium 2022. The recorded fifteen minute session was entitled “Building Teacher Capacity Applying the UDL UDL Framework: Stories from Indonesia.” Evans spoke about advances in the use of technology in education. […]
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Tools for Sharing Ideas

Madison Bunderson, Elena Darling-Hammond, & Daniel Pimentel presented at the CAST UDL symposium this summer on “Using Online Tools and UDL to Elicit Learner Voice.” This was a three-video pre-recorded session. Pimentel began by speaking about student voice. I liked how they started with a slide that simply read “it is lovely to meet you.” […]
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Humanizing the Classroom: Co-Create/Co-Construct to Dismantle Systems of Oppression

“Leading with Care: Building Capacity and Connection in Collaborative Spaces” is the title of the CAST UDL recorded session I watched tonight. Melissa Chumakov, Sarah Driessens, Sarah Hunter, & Erin Valenzuela were the presenters. Driessens spoke about the power of storytelling. Recognizing the importance of collaborating with learners was a point Driessens made. Hunter started […]
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Open Pedagogy and UDL

Tonight I watched Carolee Clyne and Surita Jhangiani present at the CAST UDL Symposium on “Open Pedagogy and UDL: The Next Steps.” Drs. Jhangiani and Clyne have decades of experience working with instructors on UDL at UBC Vancouver Point Grey Campus. They began by explaining what are open educational resources as “teaching, learning and research […]
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Quantitative and Qualitative Context for Diverse Learners

Christopher Camacho and Julia Ransom recorded and presented a session for the CAST UDL Symposium about “Understanding the Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Metacognitive Context of Our Diverse Learners.” They retitled it Learner Voices… Camacho is a senior scientist at Pearson along with Ransom. They both do qualitative research. For qualitative measures, Camacho spoke about reviewing self-efficacy, […]
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Connecting Research to Assessment in Pre-Service Teacher Education

“Creating Ownership in Assessment—From Higher Education to K-12 Classrooms” was the title of the recorded session presented at the CAST UDL Symposium by Deanna Maynard (University of Wisconsin – La Crosse) and Ashley Zehner (Muskingum University). Their guiding question they stated was: “how can we support pre-service teachers to reduce barriers when designing assessments? Zehner […]
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UDL in Middle School Math Classrooms

Sandhya Raman was the next speaker I watched. The title of the CAST UDL Symposium presentation is “Universal Design For Learning (UDL) in Mathematics Classrooms: A Catalyst to Activate Diverse Learners,” and they shared their slides. Raman is a middle school teacher in California. Raman presented using GoogleSlides and live captions… I always forget to […]
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Moving AHEAD through Student Voice

Catherine Gallagher, Richard Healy, Hannah Kelly, & Dara Ryder presented at the CAST UDL Symposium on “Student Advisory Groups: The Evidence in Evidence-Based Research and Advocacy.” Ryder is the CEO from Ahead, an Irish NGO founded in the 90s by students for students with disabilities. AHEAD captures the student voice to support students with needs. […]
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YAM for STEM

“Academic Music: Engaging students in math, music, and computational thinking” was the title of a CAST UDL session that consisted of multiple videos and presenters: Timothy Bellavia, Susan Courey, Roslyn Haber, Tina Williams, Samantha Wright, & Santa-Li Zimbrano. In the first video, Susan Courey, shared data on the disparities of STEM education in rural and […]
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