The UDL Educational Technology Guide 2020

The UDL Educational Technology Guide 2020
Author: John F. O'Sullivan
Publisher: John F. O'Sullivan Jr.
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1733298711

This is the most comprehensive educational technology guide for special education. The best technologies are highlighted in each chapter. You can completely transform your teaching practices with the technologies within this book. You will learn about the best technologies for executive function, visual impairment, learning disabilities, speech and language, and technology for engaging hands-on projects for special needs students. Only the very best technology makes the book. The information in the book is based on many years of research.

Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning
Author: Anne Meyer
Publisher: CAST Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781930583542

Anne Meyer and David Rose, who first laid out the principles of UDL, provide an ambitious, engaging discussion of new research and best practices. This book gives the UDL field an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. In the 1990s, Anne Meyer, David Rose, and their colleagues at CAST introduced Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as a framework to improve teaching and learning in the digital age, sparking an international reform movement. Now Meyer and Rose return with Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, an up-to-date multimedia online book (with print and e-book options) that leverages more than a decade of research and implementation. This is the first significant new statement on UDL since 2002, an ambitious, engaging exploration of ideas and best practices that provides the growing UDL field with an essential and authoritative learning resource for the coming years. This new work includes contributions from CAST's research and implementation teams as well as from many of CAST's collaborators in schools, universities, and research settings. Readers are invited to contribute ideas, perspectives, and examples from their own practice in an online community of practice. --

UDL Now!

UDL Now!
Author: Katie Novak
Publisher: CAST Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Inclusive education
ISBN: 9781930583665

In this revised and expanded edition of UDL Now! Katie Novak provides practical insights and savvy strategies for helping all learners meet high standards using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework for inclusive education that aims to lower barriers to learning and optimize each individual's opportunity to learn. Novak shows how to use the UDL Guidelines to plan lessons, choose materials, assess learning, and improve instructional practice. Novak discusses key concepts such as scaffolding, vocabulary-building, and using student feedback to inform instruction. She also provides tips on recruiting students as partners in the teaching process, engaging their interest in how they learn. UDL Now! is a fun and effective Monday-morning playbook for great teaching.

Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning

Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning
Author: Andratesha Fritzgerald
Publisher: Cast, Incorporated
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-08-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781930583702

Andratesha Fritzgerald presents Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in a new light: As an effective framework to teach Black and Brown students. Drawing vivid portraits of her classroom instruction in urban over the past two decades, Fritzgerald shows teachers how to open new roads of communication, engagement, and skill-building for their students. The result? Helping students become expert, lifelong learners who feel honored and loved.

Teaching Students with Special Needs using Google Workspace for Education and Related Products

Teaching Students with Special Needs using Google Workspace for Education and Related Products
Author: John F. O'Sullivan
Publisher: John F. O'Sullivan Jr.
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2022-09-10
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1733298738

Learn about teaching special needs students with Google Workspace for Education and related products. Teachers need to integrate Google products specifically designed for special needs students. This includes assistive technology and leveraging universal design for learning to teach engaging lessons. The book is intended for educators who teach special needs students and want to bridge the gap between lessons, teaching, technology, and easy access to assistive technology. You learn about technology to engage, remove barriers, and meet educational goals. Understanding the technology is not enough; learn to leverage, integrate, and create structured lessons with engaging technology. Learn about Google Workspace, assistive technologies, technology integration with Google Workspace extensions, add-ons, and technology on the internet to help you meet your goals. The book points out the most critical aspects of technology, explains why you should use technology, gives time-saving tips, and advises avoiding common pitfalls. But most of all, have fun with creative lessons.

Your UDL Journey

Your UDL Journey
Author: Patti Kelly Ralabate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-03-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781930583283

Authors Patti Kelly Ralabate and Elizabeth Berquist draw on years of working with schools, districts, universities, and states to put the inclusive principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into practice. They offer a guide for adopting UDL as the conceptual framework for an entire system, not just individual classrooms. The authors clarify the difference between mere change and true transformation in a system, offering a welcome solution to the common "flavor-of-the-month" dilemma that school leaders at all levels so often face. Your UDL Journey addresses challenges in learning design, instructional planning, professional development, resource allocation, and reflection. Written in a warm, collegial style, this book is filled with helpful signposts along the road to transformation.

Universal Design in Higher Education

Universal Design in Higher Education
Author: Sheryl E. Burgstahler
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1612500935

Universal Design in Higher Education looks at the design of physical and technological environments at institutions of higher education; at issues pertaining to curriculum and instruction; and at the full array of student services. Universal Design in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide for researchers and practitioners on creating fully accessible college and university programs. It is founded upon, and contributes to, theories of universal design in education that have been gaining increasingly wide attention in recent years. As greater numbers of students with disabilities attend postsecondary educational institutions, administrators have expressed increased interest in making their programs accessible to all students. This book provides both theoretical and practical guidance for schools as they work to turn this admirable goal into a reality. It addresses a comprehensive range of topics on universal design for higher education institutions, thus making a crucial contribution to the growing body of literature on special education and universal design. This book will be of unique value to university and college administrators, and to special education researchers, practitioners, and activists.

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age
Author: David Howard Rose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Ensuring that all students achieve the same high standard of learning would be much easier if you could quickly and easily customize lesson plans and curriculum materials to each student's needs, interests, and skills level. Here's a book that explains how to make that ideal a reality. Explore the concept of Universal Design for Learning and how it can help you meet standards while you address the unique needs of each student. Drawing from brain research and the power of digital technology, the authors explain how to - Set appropriate goals for every student. - Choose the teaching methods and materials that give every student optimum instructional support. - Ensure the fair and accurate assessment of every student's progress. A school case study, a set of templates, and links to online resources get you started in applying the concepts to your classroom. A companion website offers interactive experiences, classroom videos, lessons, online discussions, interviews with experts, student case stories, resource links, and more in-depth information.

Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom

Universal Design for Learning in the Classroom
Author: Tracey E. Hall
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1462506313

"Clearly written and well organized, this book shows how to apply the principles of universal design for learning (UDL) across all subject areas and grade levels. The editors and contributors describe practical ways to develop classroom goals, assessments, materials, and methods that use UDL to meet the needs of all learners. Specific teaching ideas are presented for reading, writing, science, mathematics, history, and the arts, including detailed examples and troubleshooting tips. Particular attention is given to how UDL can inform effective, innovative uses of technology in the inclusive classroom. Subject Areas/Keywords: assessments, classrooms, content areas, curriculum design, digital media, educational technology, elementary, inclusion, instruction, learning disabilities, literacy, schools, secondary, special education, supports, teaching methods, UDL, universal design Audience: General and special educators in grades K-8, literacy specialists, school psychologists, administrators, teacher educators, and graduate students"--