How can Web 2.0 technologies help support the 3 principles of UDL?
UDL Principle 1 supports Recognition Brain Networks
The “what” of learning
· Provide multiple examples
· Highlight critical features
· Provide multiple media and formats
· Support background context
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How can wikis help?
- Educators can post text, graphics, video, voice/sound files, and interactive applications to show concepts, skills, and facts in different ways
- Students can use posted and in-class examples as a springboard to creating and posting their own examples to clarify information for themselves and their peers
- Where textbooks cover everything, a wiki can focus on only the essential skills and knowledge of the SOL, providing a forum with a laser-like focus on the critical information of the course
- Hyperlinked text and graphics can link to background information located elsewhere on the web (Slate and Wikipedia do this all the time); students can ask themselves, “what does that mean?” and simply click on the prior knowledge concept to follow a link to an explanation
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Video (vodcast) and voice (podcast) recordings can provide anecdotes and stories related to essential skills and knowledge that would be unwieldy to type
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“On the go” format (downloaded podcasts) allows educators to offer students options for more educational stories, anecdotes, and explanation than fits into a typical lecture-format class
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Students who have difficulty accessing large amounts of text can listen and/or watch to access information
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Students can access “lectures” on prerequisite information and skills (prior knowledge) on an as-needed basis; this supports the goals of scaffolding and differentiation in the classroom when one or more students lack significant amounts of prior knowledge
How can blogs help?
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