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Embrace Flexibility with Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Universally designing blended learning presents educators with the opportunity to transition from designing a single experience that is teacher-paced and teacher-led to a more flexible experience that gives the students more control over the pace and path. 1 Student-Paced, Free-Flow Station Rotation Lesson.

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Standard-aligned Rubrics: Assessing Progress Toward Firm Goals While Allowing for Flexible Means

Catlin Tucker

Let’s say the objective of a learning cycle is to help students to craft a strong argument, compare and contrast a plant and an animal cell, or use the formula for volume to solve real-world math problems. Writing these descriptions is the most challenging part of designing a standards-aligned rubric.

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Feedback as a Dialogue 

Faculty Focus

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. So, I facilitated peer-to-peer workshops.

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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

Edsurge

STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. The initial training and implementation focused on these teachers providing feedback on tool integration.

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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

Edsurge

For the past four years, applied learning pedagogies, including digital tools like game-based platforms, have been explored within LAUSD to build math, literacy and social-emotional learning competencies using applied learning pedagogy. Design for diverse learners: We designed Level Up Los Angeles, focusing on UDL principles.

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Underappreciated No More: A Free Edtech Platform Shines as Schools Go Remote

Edsurge

Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics. In a matter of weeks, Habecker integrated his own content with materials available on CK-12 and created 15 Flexbooks covering math and science.

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When Education Is Designed for All Learners

Edsurge

She plans instruction for four separate grade levels—second through fifth—and two different subject areas—math and ELA—while also deciding which classroom technology is best suited to each day’s lesson. This is a great way for me to get feedback and have students participate in the discussion without raising their hand.

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