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EDUC 5313: Week 5 Blog Assignment

Week 5 Blog Assignment Part 1 : Select one article from those linked below regarding Universal Design for Learning and provide a summary of the article and discuss connections to the lesson you are developing . Rao, K., Torres, C., & Smith, S. (2021). Digital tools and UDL-based instructional strategies to support students with disabilities online. Journal of Special Education Technology, 36(2), 105-112.  During the Covid 19 pandemic, schools had to make a quick change to digital learning in order to provide instruction for their students. Teachers were most affected by this and had to quickly learn new digital tools in order to cope including learning management systems, new apps, browser extensions, and most especially programs like Zoom so they could communicate with their students daily. Of course, this led to professional development from the developers of this new technology and districts trying to give their teachers the tools they needed to adapt to online learning. Th...
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EDUC 5313 Week 4 Blog Assignment

  Week 4 Blog Assignment VISIT Magic School AI: https://app.magicschool.ai/tools .  Part 1 :  Use the Lesson Plan generator to create a lesson for the grade level/content area you teach using a specific standard/objective for your state as well as ISTE Student Standards.   Evaluate the quality of the lesson.  Is it well aligned with the standard that you provided? Is the lesson sufficiently rigorous? Are assessments aligned with the objective and the lesson procedure/content? What improvements might you suggest? (Feel free to answer #1 and #2 together.) The lesson I asked Magic School to create for my 9th Grade Language Arts class centered around “The Interlopers” by Saki, and I asked it to address two standards: the California State Standards for Language Arts Reading Literature: Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor a...
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EDUC 5313 Week 3 Blog Assignment

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EDUC 5313 Week 2 Blog Assignment

Part 1:  Authentic Intellectual Work/Authentic Instruction & Assessment.   Use the following questions/prompts to guide the development of your post. What is the nature of Authentic Intellectual Work?  How does it differ from traditional approaches to instruction and assessment?  Discuss the components of Authentic Intellectual Work and provide deep consideration of at least one component by including a discussion of empirical (research-based) evidence found in Chapter 2. Describe a specific example of authentic intellectual work in a discipline or content area. Authentic Intellectual Work is defined as “construction of knowledge, through the use of disciplined inquiry, to produce discourse, products, or performances that have value beyond school”. There are three components to AIW which include construction of knowledge, disciplined inquiry, and value beyond school all working together to improve student learning. These three components change instruction a...
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EDUC 5313 Week 1 Blog Assignment

Week 1 Blog Assignment Part 1:  Introduce yourself to us. Tell us about your current and future professional goals. My name is Jamie Huntington, and I live in Lakewood, CA. I have been teaching 9th and 11th grade English at Marina High School in Huntington Beach, CA for 21 years. For the last 6 years, I have been teaching credit recovery, specifically working with our lowest gpa students on campus. I have been very busy during my last few summers creating a new Theater Program for my district which includes students from 6th grade to high school. My program is based at my high school, but we include students from over 10 schools from both our district and feeder districts including second language and special education students.   In my spare time, I enjoy reading, sewing, and spending time with my family.  I have been married for 23 years and have two wonderful daughters. One graduated from SDSU last Spring, and the other is just starting her second year at UNLV whe...
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