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mjheald

Universal Design Learning Visually Explained for Teachers - 3 views

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    April 14, 2014 Universal Design Learning is a framework for learning that includes all students. Being grounded in socio-cultural theory, UDL views learning environments and social interactions as being key elements in development and learning. In UDL students are allowed to express their learning in a variety of ways.
anonymous

The Benefits of Google for Education in Higher Ed | University Business Magazine - 0 views

  • One in five devices shipped to U.S. students this year was a Chromebook built to access the Google platform. And over 70 of the top 100 universities in the U.S. have gone Google, including seven of the eight Ivy Leagues.
  • being able to discover a world of infinite resources
  • Teamwork: working together in real time. Using Google’s collaborative productivity
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  • affordable and easy to manage.
  • technology easier for our students
  • reduction in IT support costs
Jeffrey Badillo

UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer | National Center On Universal Design for Learning - 2 views

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    This graphic is also available in PDF format. This graphic organizer of the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines depicts the three main principles of UDL in three color-coded columns with numbered explanations and bulleted examples beneath each principle heading. Principle I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation is shown on the left in dark pink and includes the following: 1.
Jeffrey Badillo

http://www.udlcenter.org/sites/udlcenter.org/files/UDL_UD_BRIEF.pdf - 2 views

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    difference between UDL and Universal Design, related but distinct
Eric Telfer

Don Tapscott: Discovery Learning Is the New Higher Learning - 1 views

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    The plight of bricks-and mortar universities? I don't think MOOCs are discussed in this article. 
Jeffrey Badillo

What is Universal Design for Learning | National Center On Universal Design for Learning - 0 views

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    "UDL and Technology", visual that shows parts of the brain involved in the learning, basis for three principles of UDL
pwarmack

Information Literacy and Librarian-Faculty Collaboration in Academic Library for Sustai... - 0 views

  • The ultimate goal is to make information literacy an integral part of the academic curriculum, thus helping students to succeed not only during their years in college but also for their lifelong career choices.
  • discussion about librarian-faculty collaboration for developing information literacy skills among the students are considered briefly.
  • ACRL further describes information literacy as abilities to: a. Determine the extent of information needed b. Access the needed information effectively and efficiently c. Evaluate information and its sources critically d. Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base e. Use information effectively to accomplish a specific purpose f. Understand the economic, legal, and social issues surrounding the use of information, and access and use information ethically and legally.
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  • That solution has two fundamental underpinnings: the first is that information literacy is an issue for every college and university; and the second is that librarians should occupy a position in attempts to define and achieve campus-wide information literacy.
  • While it is legitimate to use some of the information available on the web, students need to learn how to evaluate that information.
  • A study conducted by two researchers at the Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom found that 75% of the students surveyed used Google as their first port of call when locating information, with the university library catalogue used by only 10%.
  • In general, faculty members involved in the process were willing to collaborate with librarians who served as consultants, as instructors, and as team players in designing, teaching and implementing course assignmen
  • One particular model which has proven to be effective is course integrated instruction. With this model, librarians and teaching faculty co-design a course, and make sure that information literacy is incorporated in the course.
  • They not only sought to build short-term programmatic partnerships but more importantly, formal long-term working relationships with campus units, groups, departments and administrators.
  • “Integrating Literacy into the Liberal Arts College Curriculum.
  • launched a campaign to recruit faculty as partners in the process
  • took advantage of the liaison system already in place
  • Symposiums were organized for faculty and librarians to focus on assessment and science disciplines.
  • offered a workshop
  • More and more course-related or integrated instruction sessions have come to play a bigger role in making students more information literate.
  • Changing fee structures, student experience and access to digitized information on the internet, librarians have had to rethink their approach to teaching IL skills
  • McGuinness (2007) argues that librarians tend to act in a reactive manner to the needs of academics, rather than proactively to promote IL skills.
  • eads to ad hoc, short-term solutions designed only to address one or two issues.
  • dds that librarians should align their own goals of incorporating IL skills into the curriculum with the goals of academics and institutions to influence the power structures within institutions and help shape educational content.
  • highlights both the ambiguity around how IL should be taught, and the important role faculty awareness of IL and integration of library staff plays in integrating IL
  • unpack the “culture clash” between librarians and academics
  • cGuinness (2006) found that academics expected students to “learn by doing” through collaborative projects with peers and dissertation reports with occasional support from staff, without a clear sense of how students would develop critical and analytical IL skills
  • aculty also tended to believe that a student’s ability to gain IL skills were driven by the student’s own motivation, interests and innate abilities, rather than the quality and format of the available instructional opportunities
  • Multiple literacies, including digital, visual, textual, and technological, have now joined information literacy as crucial skills for this century”
  • These collaborative efforts have enabled librarians to encourage and support faculty in establishing learning priorities which will ensure that students be equipped with the competencies to become effective lifelong learners.
  • Only by establishing a successful partnership between librarians and faculty, can the goal of mastery of information literacy by students be accomplished.
  • The goal of librarian-faculty collaboration in integrating information literacy into the curriculum is to enable students to learn the skills and competencies needed for success during their life time
  • To make sure that everyone is able to become an educated, skilled, and information-literate person, librarians and faculty at institutions of higher education throughout the world will need to work together as partners to provide the education
pwarmack

ProfHacker - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    The Chronicle of Higher Education's ProfHacker blog - a cohort of higher education faculty members and ed tech professionals submit tips and commentary on education, technology, education & college/university. Recent topics include making web content printer friendly, digital annotation, & time management apps.
llisai

Apps for Global Collaboration: Questions and Tools to Inspire a Worldview - 1 views

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    Today, Jennifer Williams, co-founder of Calliope Global and adjunct professor for Saint Leo University, introduces apps for global collaboration and purposeful connection.
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    Organized by Essential Questions and then a pedagogical basis, Williams outlines eight apps with the potential for global collaboration. She outlines the tool and then offers suggestions for how it can be used to reach out to other classrooms around the world.
Jeffrey Badillo

Principle I. Provide Multiple Means of Representation | National Center On Universal De... - 2 views

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    Interactive checklist that shows each part of the guidelines, with examples and research supporting, good self-eval tool for educators
Jeffrey Badillo

Universal Design For Learning | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - 2 views

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    Visual color wheel depiction of UDL
Kelly Wilson

Tool Kit on Universal Design for Learning: Introduction - 2 views

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    Resource
Eric Telfer

Radical Curriculum Sharing at the Open High School of Utah | Edutopia - 0 views

  • integrating Web 2.0 technologies, like those that follow, would help her students succeed in the 21st centur
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      I think we have to do this and PLPs will reinforce the necessity for teachers to be equipped with the skills and dispositions to teach them to all students.
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      Color-coded lesson plans are "the best"- peer reviewed?
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      Virtual Library of Instruction- access to curricular plans that align with CCSS and you can quickly create a scope and sequence with the essential questions and broad, overarching themes for the academic year- paperless.
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  • The age of comprehensive drag-and-drop curriculum planning is here
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      More than one department from one school? Curriculum sharing between different schools in different districts? This is the true target of authentic collaboration and PLNs.
  • The Virtual Library of Instruction (11) hosts many excellent unit plans designed at the University of Georgia's by Dr. Peter Smagorinsky's secondary English majors. Scroll down to see units listed by grade. Titles listed in pink are the best.
  • At Teaching That Makes Sense (TTMS.org) (12), Steve Peha has created a ridiculous amount of materials useful for writing instructors
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      Personal interest in improving strategies surrounding writing instruction (CLAs, expository writing, SBAC constructed responses).
  • Some of the sites I discovered were created by college professors and might be too difficult for students who are not academically gifted. Nonetheless, there are treasures here
  • Technology still hasn't solved the biggest time crunch: reading, responding, and grading essays. "And let me tell you," she laughs, "My grading inbox is frightening." Nor does technology alleviate the need for her presence "They want me there, commenting. But I can't always be there as much as I want to be."
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      WriteToLearn and similar grading software (Intelligent Essay Assessor, Criterion) will become an option for teachers to grade elements of an essay that can be "counted".
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