whatimeant2say This post completes my week-long feature of Universal Design for Learning, a project with the mission to maximize learning for all students. To read the earlier posts, you can click on these: Universal Design for Learning, Variability Matters, Planning for All Learners, and Learning Wheel. Another tool that is provided by CAST, the organization that … Read more
This week, I am focusing on Universal Design for Learning. You can learn more about it in my first two posts – here and here. Today, I would like to introduce you to one of the many Toolkits offered by CAST, the developers of UDL. The PAL Toolkit (Planning for All Learners) is a great … Read more
Yesterday, I introduced you to a concept called Universal Design for Learning, which I learned about during an institute at Harvard last week. This video, Variability Matters, from Todd Rose at CAST (which developed UDL), is an excellent justification for why we should implement UDL in all of our schools – for the benefit of … Read more
Last week, I had the great privilege to attend the Universal Design for Learning Institute at Harvard. I must admit that, prior to this conference, I knew little about UDL. It is difficult to summarize UDL in one sentence, but here are some of the key points: it’s about maximizing learning for all students it’s … Read more
Engage Their Minds will be on a hiatus from 7/9/12 to 7/15/12. New posts will begin again on 7/16/12.
Dear Photograph is not an educational site. It is a collection of photographs of pictures. In each photograph, the photographer is holding up a picture from the past in front of a scene from the present. The juxtaposition is striking, and the submissions are accompanied by moving letters to the subjects of the older photos. … Read more