Mattingly "AI & Prompt Design: The Basics of Prompt Design"
UDL Sunshine Coast Presentation
1. Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
The difference between fair and equal
Sunshine Coast
January 13, 2010
Anita Strang
ThinkingUDL.ca
anitasquicktips.edublogs.org
2. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture Why is it
UDL important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
3. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture
UDL Why is it
important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
4. Universal Design ~ Architecture
Designed for people with physical
disabilities...
... beneficial for everyone
5. Kurzweil
·Reading Support
·Comprehension Support
·Highlight and extract text
·Joint attention
·classroom teachers
understand and model th
use of assistive
technology
http://www.kurzweiledu.com/files/pdf/clt_kurzweil-
3000_windows_flyer.pdf
7. NaturalReader
http://www.wordtalk.org.uk/Home/
I downloaded Natural Reader to help
students who have reading disabilities.
Many students and teachers have begun
using it to re-read what they have written
as they edit and proofread their work.
http://www.naturalreaders.co
m/
CLiCk, Speak
http://clickspeak.clcworld.n
et/
10. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
UDL
Architecture
Why is it
important
Toolbelt Theory
now?
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
11. What are we doing now?
What does UDL look like
how is it different?
Where will we start?
12. It's is a journey...
Community
Accessibility Ownership
Inclusion Belonging
UDL
Writer's Workshop
Project-Based Learning
Multiple Means of Expression Assessment
for learning
Picture-Word Induction
Assessment
as Learning
Multiple Means of Engagement Assessment
of Learning
Explicit
Multiple Means of Representation Learning Intentions
19. Resource Room
Speech & Language Special Education
UDL planning requires
ESL
Collaborative Planning
With all teachers who support the students in the classroom
Special Education Assistants
Learning Assistance
20. ESL
Curriculum Lesson Plan Learning Disabilities
Special needs
ESL
Learning Disabilities Lesson Plan
Curriculum
Special needs
To read more about "How UDL has changed my Job"
http://anitas.edublogs.org/2009/01/10/how-udl-has-changed-
my-job/
21. My evolving role as a resource Teacher
In the past...
Pull-out groups meeting throughout the year
to teach skills
Classroom teacher may have only a very
general idea what skills I was working on.
I had only a general idea of what skills the
classroom teacher is working on.
22. Resource Teacher's evolving role
Now... Helping teachers
learn the
Classroom technologies
Support Troubleshootin
g
Team Teaching
teach
Short-term pull-out groups technologies
Pull-Out Support focussed on a specific
goal determined by the
teaching team
teach skills
23. Student Support
Models
Classroom Program Support Program
·teaching to the middle ·pull-out group support
·adding on for students with learning or ·support outside of the curriculum
The
physical needs ·limited collaboration with classroom
past
·reliance on Support Teacher to fix
students with special needs
·fostering an atmosphere of belonging in the classroom and the school
·flexible model of in-class or pull-out support based on careful consideration of individual
needs
·collaboration in planning lessons to build in supports
·familiarity with technology that supports students
The future ·helping students develop understandings of disabilities
·helping students develop empathy and learn to support fellow students
·ensuring students are able to ·in-class or in-curriculum support
participate in classroom activities ·collaboration with classroom
·differentiating instruction teachers
·troubleshooting technology
·coordinating support services
·paperwork
·tracking students
·strategic pull-out support
24. Learning Intention:
Grade 2
identify the properties of solids, liquids, and gases
Solid Liquid Gas
water rock wood
air steam milk
25. Learning Intention:
Grade 2
identify the properties of solids, liquids, and gases
26. UDL planning begins with clearly stated
Learning Intentions
Where are we going?
27. Shape of the Day Grade 1
To understand that there should be an equal amount on both
Math sides of an equals sign =
IRP - PLO
Recess demonstrate, concretely and pictorially, how a given number can be
represented by a variety of equal groups with and without singles
Reading
Writing
5+2 = 4+__
Lunch
Science
Art
28. UDL lesson planning begins with plans for ongoing
Assessment
That reflects the lesson's stated Learning Intentions
Assessment for Learning
Assessment as Learning
Assessment of Learning
How will we know we got there???
29. Are we assessing our students based on the Provincial Learning Outcomes...
...or based on text book assignments?
Are our assessment results truly assessing what we intend...
...or are they coloured by student's disabilities?
31. Students with Special Learning Needs
"A small proportion will need to work on
individualized outcomes, goals different than the
curriculum; this is referred to as modification."
"Although decisions about
"Some may be able to modifications to a student’s
achieve the learning courses or subjects may
outcomes of some
take place in grades earlier
subjects or courses with
adaptations." than
Grade 10, a formal decision
that an overall program is
modified does not need to
occur until Grade 10."
"Many students with special needs and
significant learning challenges will be able to
achieve the learning outcomes for subjects or
courses with no or minor adaptations."
BC Ministry of Education
A Guide to Adaptations and Modifications
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/docs/adaptations_and_modifications_guide.pdf
32. Adaptations can only be
made for students on IEPs
...it depends
"Essentially, adaptations are “best practice” in
teaching." A Guide to Adaptations and BC Ministry of
Modifications
Education
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/docs/adaptations_and_modifications_guide.pdf
ie: ·use of a graphic organizer
·providing with more time
33.
34. Animal Adaptations
Multimedia Presentation Multimedia Project
Online information Written Report
Kurzweil
Kurzweil
Discussion
Poster Presentation
Reading books
Oral Information Oral Presentation
35.
36.
37. Adaptations create an
unfair advantage for some
students.
"The difference between fair and
equal."
"Adaptations do not represent unfair advantages to students. In fact, the
opposite could be true. If appropriate adaptations are not used, students could
be unfairly penalized for having learning differences, creating serious negative
impacts to their achievement and self‐concept."
BC Ministry of Education
A Guide to Adaptations and Modifications
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/specialed/docs/adaptations_and_modifications_guide.pdf
The fact that we have catered to student who
prefer paper and pencil, books, and lectures is
an unfair advantage.
39. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture Why is it
UDL important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
40. To read Anita's Blog "UDL Success" post go to:
http://anitas.edublogs.org/2009/03/28/udl-success/
41. Why???
Support for teachers...
~inservice
~collaboration
~technology
Support for kids...
~Short-term Pull-out groups with a purpose
~visual & background knowledge
~joint attention
~in class support
the message we send... ~accessibility
~their teachers can teach them
~they can learn
~there are tools they can use
~different is not only acceptable but encouraged
~they are valued and supported
~they belong
...a shift in Paradigm
42. Subtle Shift in Paradigm...
from assistive to mainstream
from separate to included
from child as problematic
to curriculum as potentially problematic
from fixing the child
to fixing the curriculum
from accepting differences
to valuing and encouraging differences
43. UDL Belonging
Ownership Community
Inclusion
...a shift in paradigm
44. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture
UDL Why is it
important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
45. Changing Expectations in Education
"The [school] system was designed in the 1840s and at
the turn of the 20th Century to separate society into a
vast majority of minimally trained industrial workers
and a small, educated elite."
Ira Socol
Counting the Origins of Failure
http://education.change.org/blog/view/counting_the_origins_of_failure
50. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture
UDL Why is it
important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
52. It is not about the technology
Nala
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXBzGf54-Ik
53. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Architecture Why is it
UDL important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
54. Toolbelt Theory
We are many things - human beings - but above all we are tool users. Unlike
most other species, and far more than any other species, we have defined
ourselves by crafting tools which allow us to control our environment and
overcome our limitations. Can't run as fast as a horse? Climb on the horse.
Can't fight one-on-one with a Mammoth? Invent the spear. Can't remember
everything you need? Create writing.
So tools matter. They matter most for those who lack the highest capabilities -
a very old person and a very young person needs a car more often than a 20-
year-old might - a short person needs a ladder more often than a tall person -
a weak swimmer needs a boat when a great swimmer might not - but still,
tools matter for everyone.
Ira Socol
Toolbelt Theory for Everyone
SpeEd Change
http://speedchange.blogspot.com
55. Toolbelt Theory
So the trick to tool use is to learn to evaluate tasks and environments and
your skills and the tools themselves as they change and determine what
works best for you. I call this the "TEST" - Task - Environment - Skills -
Tools
T Task
E Environment
S Skills
Ira Socol
T Tools
Toolbelt Theory for Everyone
SpeEd Change
http://speedchange.blogspot.com
56. Most technologies enable some while disabling others...
stairs
bicycles
wheelchairs
pencils
books
73. background Networkability
knowledge
video clip
extension
activities definitions
74. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Why is it
UDL
Architecture
important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
75.
76. It is not about the technology
suchitra prints
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chitrasudar/2740220523/
77. The time is right...
Technology Integration
The questions are no longer "why?" or "should we?"...
Universal Design for Learning
...the questions are "what?" and "how?"
It is now a question of pedagogy
increased visual
accessibility - leveling the playing field
engagement tools
78. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
UDL
Architecture
Why is it
important
Toolbelt Theory
now?
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
79. David Rose
"Increasingly we need to be seeing our curriculum as
disabling children."
"Increasingly our curriculum will be be seen as
unethical"
http://events.insinc.com/setbc/20081024/presentation-
index6.html
To see the David Rose's entire presentation at the LATA Conference in October 2009 go to:
http://events.insinc.com/setbc/20081024
/
80. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
UDL
Architecture
Why is it
important
Toolbelt Theory
now?
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
81. First Year
BC UDL Project
* SD41 Burnaby: Morley Elementary
* SD43 Coquitlam: Birchland Elementary
* SD52 Prince Rupert: Pineridge, Westview, Kanata, Lax Kxeen
* SD28 Quesnel: Quesnel Secondary
* SD36 Surrey: Tamanawis Secondary
* SD22 Vernon: Coldstream Elementary
* SD61 Victoria: Colquitz Middle School
Second Year Secondary School 7-12
* SD 19 Revelstoke: Revelstoke
* SD 23 Central Okanagan: Bankhead Elementary School K-6
* SD 34 Abbotsford: W.A. Fraser Middle School 6-8
* SD 39 Vancouver: David Livingstone Elementary School K-7
* SD 57 Prince George: Harwin Elementary School K-7
* SD 68 Nanaimo-Ladysmith: Fairview Community School K-7
* SD 71 Comox Valley: Arden Elementary School K-7
Third Year
* SD 42 Maple Ridge: Mount Crescent Elementary K-7
* SD 46 Sunshine Coast: Halfmoon Bay Elementary Community School K-7
* SD 54 Bulkley Valley: Smithers Secondary 8-12
* SD 63 Saanich: North Saanich Middle School 6-8
* SD 79 Cowichan Valley: Khowhemun Elementary K-6
* SD 83 North Okanagan-Shuswap: Len Wood Middle School 6-8
* SD 84 Vancouver Island West: Gold River Secondary 8-12
82. BC's Ministry of Education endorses Universal Design for Learning.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.c
a/specialed/docs/iepssn.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/speci
pdf aled/docs/adaptations_and_mod
ifications_guide.pdf
"Today’s classrooms are diverse and inclusive by nature. Differentiation of instruction and assessment and the
principles of universal design are now recognized practices for teachers."
89. Anita's Tips, Tricks, and
Weblinks
ThinkingUDL
Smartboard Forum
Anitasquicktips
http://anitasquicktips.edublogs.org/
90. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
Why is it
UDL
Architecture
important
now? Toolbelt Theory
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
98. Questioning
Subtle Shift How this shift
assumptions
in Paradigm changes things
What is
UDL? Changing Expectations in Education
Universal
Design - Preparing kids for their future
UDL
Architecture
Why is it
important
Toolbelt Theory
now?
Technology purchasing
UDL
Progress
Because it is the right thing to do
Worldwide
In BC
99. For links to all of the Websites mentioned in this presentation go to:
Thinking UDL.ca
http://anitas.edublogs.org/udl-presentation-
links/
100. Shift in Paradigm...
from assistive to mainstream
from separate to included
from child as problematic
to curriculum as potentially problematic
from fixing the child
to fixing the curriculum
from accepting differences
to valuing and encouraging differences
