When students own their learning, they are more motivated, engaged, excited, and self-directed to show mastery of their learning on a particular concept or skillset. By empowering students with choice and customized learning as well as exploring rigorous learning opportunities in an ideal learning environment, students build relationships through nurturing classroom collaboration that allows them to persist through obstacles and challenges and gain a deeper awareness of their potential. " The UDL Guidelines are a tool used in the implementation of Universal Design for Learning, a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn"(CAST, 2021). Aligning the AVID Digital Framework- The Four A's (Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate, Advocate) with CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Guidelines, educators will focus on how Engagement (the why of learning), Representation (the what of learning), & Action and Expression (the how of learning) align with AVID pedological approaches of the 4 A's to create meaningful learner-centered experiences and "create pathways toward meaningful integration of digital tools and WICOR Instructional practices that will increases student ownership and independence of their learning" (AVID Center, 2017). Optimizing choice and customizing learning while nurturing classroom collaboration empowers students to take ownership of their learning. AVID's Digital Framework and the Universal Design For Learning (UDL) guidelines, in combination, empower students by providing voice and choice to explore rigorous learning opportunities that allow students to exercise their academic, social, and emotional learning. This professional learning experience is designed to support educators as they connect the why, what, and how of learning in digital settings. Participants will learn how to maximize instructional decisions that best support students in the classroom to persist through obstacles and challenges, gain a deeper awareness of personal protentional and build relationships to prepare them for success in the global society.
Voice and Choice- International Multidisciplinary Conference on Productivity and Sustainability
1. Voice and Choice for
Promoting Student Agency
Through the AVID Digital
Learning Framework
Liz Buffington, M. Ed.
• Digital Education Leadership & PhD
Student- Seattle Pacific University
• Lecturer- San Diego State University
• Content Developer, Designer, Digital
Subject Matter Expert- AVID Center
Ashley Callahan, M. Ed.
• Learning Design and Technology
PhD Student, ABD- University of
Hawai`i at Manoa
• Learning Designer, AVID Center
2. AVID’s mission is to close the opportunity gap by
preparing all students for college readiness and
success in a global society.
3. Learning
Objectives
• Identify access points
to optimize choice and
customized learning
using AVID's Digital
Framework to guide
instructional decisions
4. Visualize a Student
• Sketch them
• Write about them
• Visualize them
• Any combination
5. Voice and Choice for
Promoting Student Agency
Through the AVID Digital
Learning Framework
6. Voice and Choice for
Promoting Student
Agency Through the AVID
Digital Learning
Framework
• Seek meaning and act with purpose.
• Have the skills and confidence to act
in achieving their goals, dreams,
and plans.
• Are curious and engaged learners.
• Know they can influence their
outcomes.
• Advocate for themselves and others.
7. Voice and Choice for Promoting Student
Agency Through the AVID Digital Learning
Framework
AVID’s 4As
8. An instructor who adopts
understands the value of
digital tools and begins to
utilize them to enhance
instruction and learning.
•Slideshows
•Google Docs
•Visual Timers
9. An instructor who adapts their
practice modifies lessons to
take advantage of digital tools
and begins to change
teaching practices to be more
student-centered and
collaborative.
• JamBoard/Miro
• Flipgrid
• Seesaw
10. An instructor who accelerates
promotes student ownership of
learning to produce increased
student engagement, authentic
tasks, and advancement of
teaching and learning practices.
Produce a news story:
• Canva
• Flipgrid
• PowToons
11. An instructor who advocates
supports and champions
transformative teaching and
learning practices to produce
outcomes that could not be
achieved without the use of
technology.
• AppInventor
• iMovie
• WordPress
12. Voice and Choice
for Promoting
Student Agency
Through the AVID
Digital Learning
Framework
Math
Science
Reading
Writing
Vocabulary
Curiosity
Interest
low average high
14. AVID’s 4As and Universal Design for
Learning Crosswalk
Provide multiple means of
Engagement
Provide multiple means of
Representation
Provide multiple means of
Action & Expression
Adopt
Adapt
Accelerate
Advocate
16. Provide multiple
means of
Engagement
During
(The Why)
Provide multiple
means of
Representation
Input
(The What)
Provide multiple
means of
Action &
Expression
Output
(The How)
Adopt
Teacher uses slide
presentation to
teach academic
vocabulary.
Providing a digital
note catcher for
academic
vocabulary.
Students create
vocabulary cards
using slide deck.
17. Provide multiple
means of
Engagement
During
(The Why)
Provide multiple
means of
Representation
Input
(The What)
Provide multiple
means of
Action &
Expression
Output
(The How)
Adapt
Allowing students
to fill out a
reflective exit ticket
using a online
survey like Google
Forms.
Students create a
digital storyboard
representing
academic
vocabulary.
Students
collaborate to
create digital word
wall using Padlet.
18. Provide multiple
means of
Engagement
During
(The Why)
Provide multiple
means of
Representation
Input
(The What)
Provide multiple
means of
Action &
Expression
Output
(The How)
Accelerate
Teacher offers
various note-taking
formats (open vs.
scaffolded) for
defining academic
vocabulary in a
primary source.
Teacher offers
choice board of
videos, readings,
and visuals to assist
students in learning
vocabulary.
Teacher provides
technology options
to have students
teach academic
vocabulary to a
student in a younger
grade level.
19. Provide multiple
means of
Engagement
During
(The Why)
Provide multiple
means of
Representation
Input
(The What)
Provide multiple
means of
Action &
Expression
Output
(The How)
Advocate
Allowing students to
create their own
rubric to self-assess
application of
academic vocabulary
in written essay.
Students connect
academic vocabulary
to prior unit and
select technology to
add presentation in
classroom webpage.
Students create their
own academic
vocabulary study app.
