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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...

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...