The document discusses Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which focuses on making learning accessible to all people by providing multiple means of representation, expression, and engagement. UDL is based on principles from cognitive neuroscience and aims to support learners with different strengths and needs. There are three main sections to UDL: representation, expression, and engagement, which each have guidelines to provide options for perception, physical action, language/symbols, and recruiting/sustaining student interest. The goal is for every student to feel like an expert learner through flexible options that allow for individual learning paths.

1. Allison Korson
EDP 279
Assignment 2.3
September 25, 2013

2.  Universal design is unlike the norm, because
instead of focusing on the average customer, it
focuses on the product being usable for all people
without the need to change it or adapt
 It is meant to reach the needs of as many people
possible

3.  Comes from what
learning really is
 Comes from
studies of
cognitive learning
and sciences
 Three principles
in any learning

4. There are 9 steps to UDL that can be
broken up into three sections
1. Representation
Provide options for:
1. Multiple means of
representation
2. Language and symbols
3. Comprehension
2. Expression
Provide options for:
1. Physical action
2. Expressive skills and fluency
3. Executive functions
3. Engagement
Provide options for:
1. Recruiting interest
2. Sustaining effort and persistence
3. Self-regulation

5.  We want to make learning important to students
 Cognitive neuroscience tells us there is no
average student (UDL Principles and Practice)
 UDL tries to get the students who have been
marginalized
1. Students who have been struggling – Eng not first
language, disabilities
2. Students at other margins – gifted, talented have
been underserved by mainstream curriculum

6.  Framework based in cognitive neurosciences to provide
lessons that work across a wide variety
 Wants every student is an expert learner – love learning
and want to learn – based on power to be flexible in
allowing choices, different paths
 UDL is designed so
 1. It is universal
 2. Everybody learns

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