CEP 416-Universal Design for Learning Template

For this assignment, you will focus on the technologies that you picked for last week's activity, and you will
make sure that they comply with UDL principles. Remember that simply using technology in the classroom is
not enough; we want to purposefully think about how technology enhances learning and how we can best plan
it into our activity to achieve intended learning goals.

YOUR NAME: Marisa Ellsworth

ACTIVITY GOAL(S): By the end of the activity, my students should be able to find equivalent fractions and also be able
to solve them in more than one ways.

TECHNOLOGIES USED FOR ACTIVITY (please provide a URL link to it if applicable): Ipads and Chrombooks. The
website we will be using is http://www.abcya.com/equivalent_fractions_bingo.htm

UDL CHECKLIST
(adapted from CAST UDL curriculum self-check)

Flexible media and materials play an essential role in helping students achieve activity/lesson goals. The
principles below help you consider what could/could not work for all your students with the media and materials
included in your activity.

UDL principle Example Explain how the technology you picked

Multiple and varied media are used
to present concepts and content
Text, images, graphics, audio,
video, and multimedia
for the activity provides that?
(add URL links, descriptions,
screenshots, etc if necessary)
There is sound in the game but its just
background music. Also the game shows the
different fractions as images.

For the game there is no way to add

Materials and media provide visual Captions for videos, text outlines captions because its all done through
equivalents for auditory information for lectures, text-to-speech or pictures. For my lecture before the game I
and vice versa as needed digital voice tools for text can have a text outline of what is being said

I can have a provided glossary definition of

Options for diverse Hyperlinked multimedia glossary all of the words and such I will be using
linguistic/language abilities are definitions; foreign language during the activity. I will for sure make sure I
provided in materials and media translations; language modality have a translator for ASL if needed.
translationsASL/speech

I will have already have a checklist of the

Visual organizers, rubrics, and Using advanced organizers activity in order of our we will complete the
checklists are available to help activity for those students who need to see it
students to learn, plan, and complete visually
lessons

The students will self-reflect during the game

Materials and media are designed to Comparing work over time and each time try to get a better score.
help students monitor their own during the activity, picking their
progress and promote self-reflection best work, choosing new
personal goals

The game that we will be using allows me to

Materials and media provide More structured vs. open-ended change how hard it is for the students, with
students with varied levels of tasks in the activity, different the students who need more of a challenge I
challenge and support to address levels of difficulty will change their setting to hard.
diverse abilities and challenges

EVALUATION

Based on your responses, how would you modify your media and materials to address the diverse challenges,
talents, and preferences of your students? (answer one)

If your technology provides support for UDL principles (e.g., 4 out of 6 principles), what are other
student challenges or preferences that you could anticipate in this activity?
o My activity is hard to change for any students who might be blind so if I do run into this situation
I would already have a game similar to what the class is doing but it would be a verbal game
instead of on the iPad.

If your technology does not provide support for UDL principles (e.g., less than 4 principles), how would
you modify your media and materials to address the diverse challenges, talents, and preferences of
your students?

REFLECTION
(participation points for this week).

Briefly describe your thoughts about the UDL-ization process:

1) How is UDL changing how you view technology for teaching and learning?
Changing my lesson plan for UDL can be hard but it opens my eyes to all of the different possibilities
that I could have in my classroom and that I need to be prepared to attended to all of my students
needs without making them feel left out of the activity.

2) How will you implement UDL in your future classroom?

Its hard to tell how I will implement UDL in my classroom because I will need to see what my students
needs are in order to accommodate them using UDL.