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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. writing task, performance task, research project).

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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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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.

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Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

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How to Serve Students With Special Needs From Afar

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What is Universal Design for Learning? Luis Perez : Universal design for learning begins with the premise that all learners vary, and that the way that we address that variability is by designing a flexible curriculum that has lots of choice. Listen to the audio below or check out the full video on YouTube.

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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. One of the tools that kind of started it off for me was Read&Write for Google Chrome. How does she do it? How does she do it?

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