Wiki+Update3

Week 3 update: Universal Design for Learning is a framework that allows teachers to provide individual students with appropriate instructional support and challenge through the effective use of technology to differentiate instruction for each student in the classroom, GT students, average students, and students with a learning, visual, or hearing disability. A UDL lesson addresses students' diverse learning styles, interests, abilities and backgrounds, because it consists of different activities that incorporate flexible digital media to engage all students, at their individual achievement level and learning ability. In addition, students are allowed to practice the skill and apply the newly acquired knowledge throughout the lesson, with built in opportunities for prompt feedback from the teacher in the form of formative assessments. As such, students are provided different examples to gather facts, identify and categorize information in engaging and fun ways. Then, they get to plan and perform tasks, organize and express their ideas in different formats and through different media. Consequently, more students have the chance to grow and achieve academically, and teachers can help more students than before in the same amount of time.