Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Hello Rondean. I enjoyed reading your post on UDL, particularly the explicit applications you outlined for digital and physical classrooms. I agree that manipulation of video captions and speed is a strong benefit of the medium. It’s too bad that synchronous sign language is currently so difficult to ensure for all videos. Perhaps as AI technology develops, video platforms will be able to offer sign language in the same way they have caption capabilities now. Having reliable (a key word!) Internet and devices are also another challenge, which seems to be a difficulty in many schools.

Thank you for sharing ways that teachers can protect students from some of the dangers of EdTech. I like your idea of having a technical team investigate apps for educators. This leaves teachers time to do what they know how to do best, which is teach students. As well, it makes much more sense for a central body to investigate apps for many people than for many individual teachers to do the same work just for their own classrooms.