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Universal Learning Design (UDL)
There is a considerable chance that you have encountered
universal design in your daily life, even if you are not familiar with the
term. Automatic doors, closed captioning, accessible building infrastructure,
and curb cuts that allow wheelchairs to pass are a few examples of universal
design. Even though these designs are helpful to people with disabilities, they
may also be useful to people without impairments (Morra & Reynolds, 2010).
Utilizing three main principles that offer numerous
opportunities for engagement, representation, and action and expression, the
universal design for learning framework offers educators a variety of
strategies and resources to assist in giving a diverse group of students an
equal opportunity to succeed.
In this blog, we'll concentrate on the principle of
engagement, and I'll offer three instructional tools that teachers can utilize
to enhance student involvement while adhering to the UDL standards.
Engagement Principle
The principle of engagement in UDL has three levels of
guidelines that include recruiting interest (RI), sustaining effort and
persistence (SEP), and self-regulation (SR).
Recruiting Interest (RI)
The educator should offer the appropriate kind of options
for achieving a goal when attracting interest. Giving students a level of
autonomy can help them become more self-reliant, experience more pride in their
accomplishments, and feel more connected to their study (CAST, 2021). Lessons
and activities should maximize relevance, value, and authenticity to engage
students in order to recruit all learners equitably (CAST, 2021). In order to
create a safe environment in which learning can take place, teachers must first
construct a welcoming and encouraging classroom that gives options that lessen
risks and harmful distractions for everyone (CAST, 2021).
AnswerGarden
Anyone interested in adopting a quick and effective method
to gather group comments can use AnswerGarden.
It can be used for online brainstorming, live audience interaction, and
classroom feedback. Teachers use AnswerGarden to gauge their students'
proficiency with a particular subject. It is employed in conferences and
workshops as a playful and interactive icebreaker with the audience (Creative Heroes,
2022).
Sustaining Effort and Persistence (SEP)
To help people maintain effort and focus in the face of
distractions, it's vital to incorporate recurring or continuous
"reminders" of the goal and its importance (CAST, 2021). All students
can find tasks that are highly motivating by being given a variety of demands
and resources (CAST, 2021). Peer cooperation can greatly improve perseverance
and sustained effort when it is correctly designed (CAST, 2021). Greater
diversity and various responsibilities are made possible by flexible grouping,
which also offers opportunity to practice cooperating with others to the
fullest. Feedback that is pertinent, constructive, accessible, significant, and
timely is most effective at maintaining engagement (CAST, 2021).
Kaizena
A Google Docs add-on called Kaizena provides writing-related
feedback for students. With Google Classroom and Docs, teachers who no longer
use paper have more alternatives for feedback, including the possibility to
leave audio comments using the Google Chrome extension (Meyers, 2020).
Self-Regulation (SR)
Each learner has a personal understanding of what motivates
them. This is known as self-regulation. To achieve this, students must be able
to set personal objectives that are genuinely attainable and cultivate the idea
that their goals can be achieved (CAST, 2021). Long-term apprenticeships with
scaffolding will be necessary for students to learn self-regulatory skills. Furthermore,
it is crucial that students have access to a variety of self-assessment models
and scaffolds so they can recognize and select the best ones (CAST, 2021).
myASL Quizmaker
Using American Sign Language (ASL) as their primary form of
communication, deaf, hard-of-hearing, and other special needs children, teens,
and adults can benefit from myASL
Quizmaker's innovative software (IDRT, 2022). With the help of this
software, a user (such as a teacher) can design unique tests, exams, and
quizzes with automatic ASL graphic and video translations, give them to their
students, get immediate scoring and data analysis, produce reports, and give
each student their academic results and corrected quizzes. This assistive
technology's English-to-ASL translation features a dictionary of more than
30,000 English words, phrases, idioms, numbers, and symbols (IDRT, 2022).
Resources
Brookes. (2021, July 22). 7 budget-friendly
ways to promote student engagement: A UDL Post. Brookes Blog. Retrieved
July 25, 2022, from https://blog.brookespublishing.com/7-budget-friendly-ways-to-promote-student-engagement-a-udl-post/
CAST.
(2021, October 15). The UDL guidelines. UDL. Retrieved July 25, 2022,
from https://udlguidelines.cast.org/
Creative
Heroes. (2022). Answergarden ". AnswerGarden. Retrieved July 25,
2022, from https://answergarden.ch/about-AnswerGarden/
IDRT. (2022). myASLQuizmaker. About
myasl quizmaker. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://www.idrt.com/aboutQuiz.php
IDRT. (2019, November 25). MyASLTech
overview. YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://youtu.be/V3wl55_bIqI
Johnson, M. (2015, March 4). March madness
minute #4 answergarden.ch. YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://youtu.be/_vR8HoUWL-A
Kaizena. (2018, June 29). Kaizena in 2
minutes. YouTube. Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://youtu.be/tj--iDSds4Q
Meyers, A.
(2020, August 25). Kaizena review for teachers. Common Sense Education.
Retrieved July 25, 2022, from https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/kaizena
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