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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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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. Listenwise), an online article, or a video on biodiversity. This is not unusual. They can find a podcast (e.g.,

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Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? Actually, Yes.

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The first image many people have of school is a circle of small children, sitting cross-legged, paying attention (or not) to an adult reading a book aloud and showing pictures to the class. A second question has been given almost equal importance: Is reading a book to students online even legal? The short answer is, well, yes.

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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Catlin Tucker

Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Student agency requires that we design our lessons to offer students meaningful choices.

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Shifting from Time-consuming Teacher-led Workflows to Sustainable Student-led Workflows

Catlin Tucker

We demonstrate how teachers can leverage universally designed blended learning to position students as active agents in the classroom and create the time and space for these new workflows.

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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. The goal is to shift control over the pace to students as much as possible.

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Farewell, 2020: Lessons Learned

Catlin Tucker

Who wants to read a depressing newsletter about a year fraught with challenges? Yet, it seemed wrong to pretend the year didn’t happen or that I learned nothing from it. 3 Students are capable of self-directed learning. It is a tradition I have continued through the years. I thought about skipping it altogether.

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