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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Representation

Catlin Tucker

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences.

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Embrace Flexibility with Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Their needs, skills, interests, pacing, preferences, and language proficiencies are incredibly diverse. I realize that flexibility can feel a bit daunting, both in our design work and as we facilitate a learning experience. This shift in control demands that learners assume more responsibility for their learning.

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Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented.

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Combatting the Challenges of Whole Group Lessons with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

This blend of online and offline learning can happen exclusively in the classroom with the station rotation and whole group rotation models. It can combine both in-class and online learning at home with the flipped classroom and playlist models. Looking for additional resources?

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UDL and Blended Learning: Removing Barriers with Design

Catlin Tucker

Teachers identified the following factors that might create barriers: audio processing disorders, poor vision, attention deficit, distractions and day dreams, headache or illness, language proficiency, etc. Summer Learning Opportunities.

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3 Principles for Using Technology in the Classroom to Personalize and Improve Learning

Catlin Tucker

The more we design online learning experiences that give students agencyletting them decide what to explore, how to learn it, and how to demonstrate their understandingthe more meaningful and motivating that work becomes. Its not engaging; its just screen time.

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

User-friendly (more specifically, student-friendly): It’s important that the feedback is communicated to students in language they can understand. It is a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through. Typically, there is a teacher-led station, an online station, and an offline station.

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