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Sean Wybrant

Community of practice - Teacher Preparation - 0 views

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    I was in a mentoring training where this site was brought up. It has some good tools/resources for teachers at any level. Might want to take a look at it.
Sean Wybrant

Technology and Education | Box of Tricks - 0 views

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    Pretty cool site with a number of links to tools online. Searching through is a little difficult because it is alphabetical by tool, but it is still pretty darn nifty. 
C Clausen

Chapter 2: Teaching Every Student TOC: Information & Ideas - 0 views

    • C Clausen
       
      Hooking this to DI, would be playing into the students' strengths in areas of problem solving, put it with a topic that interests the student and you have a way to even pull the student in more. Plus, if the student uses skills he/she feels comfortable with this is actually self-DI
C Clausen

Kids and Adults Design New Tech Tools | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Amazing ideas...is this UDL at work?
C Clausen

Universal Design in the Classroom: Do it Once, Do it Right | Edutopia - 0 views

    • C Clausen
       
      Flexibility in Learning for "ALL" students...with the resources available to schools presently, is this a reality for ALL classrooms in America?
  • Universal design for learning means that the creators or publishers of content and curriculum use computer technology to structure their knowledge and activities in ways that will make it accessible to the greatest possible number of individuals.
  • multiple representations of information, alternative means of expression, and varied options for engagement.
    • C Clausen
       
      The idea of the affective, strategic, and recognition neural networks should be included in this sentence.
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  • The Beginning Literacy System (Scholastic, only available to schools); Bailey's Book House (Edmark); The Ultimate Reader 2.0 (Universal Learning Technologies); and Write: Out Loud
  • underpinning of built-in adjustability to suit varied learner needs. The more such adjustability is built into learning products, the less of an impediment will be the difficulties in written expression, evidenced by the broad spectrum of students our schools must educate.
  • Curricula will be created "half full," offering parents, teachers, and learners opportunities to interact with the information, add their own material, and leave their own personal stamp or interpretation on the materials, thus assuming a more active role in their own learning.
C Clausen

CAST: What is Universal Design for Learning? - 0 views

  • one-size-fits-all approach
    • C Clausen
       
      The idea of the "one-size-fits-all approach is being changed in the pages of textbooks, but sometimes it is more difficult for teachers to make this ideological change-over in their teaching methods.
    • Sean Wybrant
       
      True, but I am not convinced that the concept of UDL is really as much of a change as CAST is making it out to be. This is kind of a repackaging of ideas instead of a new idea. The concept of backwards design and Understanding By Design are all kind of the same thing. We are really just being asked to think about the end goal and how it fits everyone at the beginning. Or am I missing the point of UDL?
    • C Clausen
       
      I agree with you, UDL is looking at designing lesson plans and units in the same fashion that backwards lesson design does, but one difference may be that UDL looks at brain research. Granted I know little to nothing about the theory behind Backward Lesson Design, but is there a key component regarding brain research and actively engaging students using differeniated learning to activate the various neural networks? Perhaps UDL is Backwards lesson design with a splash of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences and a dash of Pavio's Dual Coding System?
  • "Universal" does not imply a single optimal solution for everyone.
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  • the need for multiple approaches to meet the needs of diverse learners.
  • Embedded features that help those with disabilities eventually benefit everyone.
    • C Clausen
       
      Throughout last year, this was a common phrase that was used as I learned to make accomidations for both my IEP studnets and my ELL students.
  • Recognition networks
  • Strategic networks
  • Affective networks
  • Multiple means of representation
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      Paviov's Dual-code processing
  • Multiple means of action and expression
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      Authentic, inquiry, project-based assessment
  • Multiple means of engagement
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      Direct instruction, technology as a teaching tool and/or learning tool, collaboration, self-directed learning, etc.
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    Just in case there is anyone that would like to compare notes on the Universal Lesson Design information, I thought I would include the website in the list of resources.
C Clausen

RTEC Exchange Homepage - 0 views

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    Here is the link that Karen shared on the Google Group Discussion board.
C Clausen

Socratic Seminars - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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    One more way to use formative assessment in your classroom.
C Clausen

UDL Goal Setter: Tools & Activities: Teaching Every Student - 0 views

  • The key is to design a goal that represents the true purpose of the learning activity.
    • C Clausen
       
      Educational focus for all learners...if the goal is CLEAR, than you know where you need to go, the trick is figuring out a way to make it possible for ALL students to accomplish this goal.
  • confuses means and ends.
  • Only when the essential learning purpose is clear can we determine the educational focus for all learners.
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  • alternative pathways and scaffolds can be used to meet diverse learning needs
Sean Wybrant

RTDI - Learner Profile - 0 views

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    Has a fair amount of resources to take a look at. Some great, some not so much, but at the very least it is a resource so we aren't reinventing the wheel. 
C Clausen

How Should We Measure Student Learning? The Many Forms of Assessment | Edutopia - 0 views

  • You can't know where you're going unless you know where you are.
  • These abilities -- recall, analysis, comparison, inference, and evaluation -- will be the skills of a literate twenty-first-century citizen. And they are the kinds of skills that aren't measured by our current high-stakes tests.
  • adding assessment vehicles such as student portfolios and presentations as additional measures of student understanding.
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  • With these formative and summative types of assessment come the ability to give students immediate feedback. They also allow a teacher to immediately intervene, to change course when assessments show that a particular lesson or strategy isn't working for a student, or to offer new challenges for students who've mastered a concept or skill.
Sean Wybrant

GOOGLE - 0 views

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    Thought this was a pretty good site. Lots of great information on how to effectively use Google. 
C Clausen

Stage'D! - 0 views

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    Digital Storytelling
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