"Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for designing curricula that enable all individuals to gain knowledge, skills, and enthusiasm for learning. UDL provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining high achievement standards for all."
This is a great book on augumented learning which will be a source book for the design strand in the fall. MIT is making a tool kit for augmented learning Eric Kopler MIT (Kristin atkins qualcomm also spoke about augmented learning)
This is a library of video talks that have been given at Claremont Graduate University. There many that could used as materials in action research as well as other classes. There are number that focus on what is credible evidence. And there are resources that address many of the action research problems that students select.
This is a community of practice for Chief Learning Officers.. There are a number of resources that look promising. We need to poke around and see what we think.
role of emotion.
about 6 minute presentation about leadership...shares different approaches to leadership which involve emotion. Focuses on the emotion and says that positive emotions are more likely to create the environments that are successful. Good tape to generate discussion
What works in public education...this site has successful strategies that cold be the basis of action research in schools. These stories are helpful for thinking about action research.
For Knowledge Building Strand
The LIFE Center has a view of learning as social and context bound. the context has a 4 theory gates and the there 6 social drivers of learning. Should spark some interesting discussions.
this is a sort blog about a finding that students will spend more time teaching an agent that will then compete with other student's agent then learning for themselves. It is a way to use technology to make every student a teacher (which is my quick fix for schools--find ways to make everyone a teacher).
Great resource for the leadership courses--I have suggested the webinar to students but the paper and the videos on this page would be great material to discussion around the issue of leadership.
This plan was written by SRI and will be introduced formally in March of this year. It focuses on 5 areas..learning teaching assessment, productivity and infrastructural issues.
We should be using this as a resource in our courses. There are lots of embedded resources. I think we need to be including more web resources in courses.