Culminating+Activity+1

And here are our elevator speeches!!!!!!!!!!!! Please be sure to tell us who wrote the speech.

** A UDL Poem for Knowim’ **


 * By Jeanette and Robin **


 * The future of education is universal design for learning **
 * Empowering the students is what they are learning **


 * It’s all about giving our students choices **
 * That way they can express and find their own voices **


 * Teachers need flexible methods of presentation **
 * To provide multiple ways of representation **


 * To support affective learning options for engagement is key **
 * When you strategically plan from bottom up, all students be successful you’ll see **


 * So incorporate technology and multiple options into your teaching **
 * And soon your students will master skills and be far reaching **


 * Don’t forget your goal is critical and essential **
 * For having your students reach their potential **


 * So Kelly’s girls will use the tools **
 * We’ll set the goals and be no fools **

From Diane 1 and Rachel (This was collaboratively created using Google Docs.)

UDL is one of the many tools that educators have at their fingertips to broaden people’s understanding. Think of the last time you needed to learn something new. When my colleague and I were asked to explain a concept, we could have written key points on an index card and practiced a presentation. While that would have been effective, we sat on the floor with our laptops, logged onto a collaborative software site, discussed ideas, typed and revised in real time to produce this explanation. One of us has a larger type. The colors kept our interest. The novelty kept us focused. The fact that it was typed helped us comprehend as well. In the past, for this particular exercise, one of us could have easily zoned out in the telling phase or in the process, however, using these many tools at our disposal, we were both involved and actively learning. UDL is short for universal design for learning. Its basis is access to physical barriers but we expand it in education to having access to learning. UDL works for all !