wesleyp's blog

What a long week. For as long as I’ve been in school, October always seems to be the busiest / craziest / longest / shortest month of the year. It seems like all of the major projects and midterms and presentations hit in October, and this one has been no exception.

About an hour ago I finished my first literature review in the learning design program, and it was no easy task. I’ve always been able to “stay up late” or “wait until the last minute” to complete my school work, but I am finding that to be less and less true in grad school. Grad work really takes thinking, planning, analyzing and synthesizing material, and you really can’t do a good job at it last minute. I find myself enjoying the topics I am studying and writing about, so I feel like I am producing a higher quality of work than I ever have in the past. Now I just hope I can find the perfect thesis topic or major project so that this feeling continues =)

I think that Frank did a wonderful job summarizing the article on Universal Learning Design.

I think Universal Learning Design can simply be defined as  “Focusing research, development, and educational practice on understanding diversity and applying technology to facilitate learning.”

I think that the following statement is important “UDL provides a vision for breaking the “one-size-fits-all” mold and therefore expands the opportunities for learning for all students with learning differences,” but I also think that it is important to not only highlight the fact the UDL helps students with learning disabilities, but ALL students. Making easy to remember connections in the material and engaging students in the content they are studying is important for everyone.