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Dr. Rose’s March 3rd evening lecture and is Wednesday, March 30th 2:00-3:00pm
The New Learning Sciences: appropriate for all COE faculty.
HH110 –Linda Macaulay
How Variability in Learning 11:30-12:00: Lunch Learn to work efficiently and effectively
Informs Teaching in the 21st century within Blackboard. Practice setting up
12:00-1:15: Concurrent Sessions:
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Session 1: UDL Guidelines and Lesson
our understanding of how the brain learns, to organize Bb to work more efficiently such
Planning
revealing that variability is the rule, not the as displaying only current courses, creating a
How can I support pre-service teachers in
exception, when it comes to learning. Guest direct link to your Learn Online Collection,
the field?
speaker, Dr. Todd Rose, from Harvard and managing notification emails. Bring
This session is appropriate for all COE faculty who
University and the Center for Applied your questions - there will be ample time to
supervise interns
Special Technology, leads this informative address everyone’s needs.
session. Hear what modern neuroscience Session 2: Technology, UDL & Course
Design
tells us about the origins of variability in ActivExpressions
What is the potential for technology within
learning, and what this means for the way
the UDL framework? How does this apply Friday March 11th 11:00am-12:00pm
that we design learning environments
within the context of Universal Design to my teaching? HH 110 - Erin Crisp
for Learning. This session is appropriate for select COE faculty Use ActivExpressions to conduct formative
Thursday March 3 6:30pm
rd who are integrating UDL and technology into their assessments and engage students in active
course design learning. Develop questions that access
Towson Lecture Hall students’ pre, post, and ongoing
Please register for this workshop at 1:30-3:00: Roundtable Discussion: UDL, knowledge; how to display and export
http://edportfolio.wikispaces.com/UDL curricular change and pre-service data, and use the ActivExpressions to
teacher preparation create an engaging and interactive
Integrating Universal Design What is happening at Towson and other learning environment.
for Learning (UDL) IHE’s?
This session is appropriate for all COE faculty who Tech Lunches
Friday March 4th 9:30 am-3:00pm
have begun to integrate UDL and technology into
HH 110 - Dr. Todd Rose, Liz Berquist their course goals, methods, materials and Thursday March 31st 11:30am-12:30pm
8:30-9:30: Chat and chew assessments HH 110 - Amy Chase Martin
9:30-11:30: Deeper Dives: The promises Please register for this workshop at Informal, hands-on sessions integrating
and pitfalls of applying neuroscience to http://edportfolio.wikispaces.com/UDL technology. Bring your lunch and your
education questions. Dessert provided!

A Closer Look at Universal Design Link of the Month

for Learning (UDL) http://pages.towson.edu/cholmes/files/
Winter2011Newsletter.pdf
Liz Berquist shares the basics of UDL This newsletter is posted by our
colleagues at Cook Library and has
What is UDL?
information for faculty and students.
In today’s K-12 classrooms learner diversity is the norm, rather than the exception. UDL
Topics in this issue include:
addresses learner diversity at the point of curriculum development (Meo, 2008). UDL
provides rich supports for learning and reduces barriers to the curriculum while maintaining Accessing Course Gateways
high achievement standards for all (CAST, 2008). What makes UDL unique is that this Accessing Subject Gateways
emphasis for change is placed upon the curricula, instead of on the student, a departure from APA Resources Online
the traditional approach of modifying, or retrofitting, curricula based on the individual needs
Accessing Instructional Videos
of students (Rose and Meyer, 2005).
And the Roving Reference Librarian
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COE wiki at http://edportfolio.wikispaces.com/
March’s Faculty Innovator A Closer Look at Universal Design for
Dr. Janese Daniels, ECED Learning (UDL) (continued from page 1)

Dr. Daniels teaches ECED Who is talking about UDL?

407 Interactive Technology The state of Maryland is leading the way with UDL initiatives. HB 59/SB 467,
& The Young Child, passed in April 2010, is the first state level bill to address UDL. The bill
ECED 610 Learning established a state-level UDL task force to explore the incorporation of the
Environments: Curriculum UDL principles into curriculum. Several counties have worked with the
& Technology, and ECED Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) on a number of recent UDL
606 Research and Practice professional development workshops.
on Multimedia Technology Are we talking about UDL in the COE?
& Learning. Her courses We are! The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) states that
teach pre-service and pre-service teacher education programs should design instruction that models
in-service Early Childhood the UDL principles in order to better prepare future educators for working
educators developmentally with diverse learners. COE courses have covered UDL for quite some time
appropriate ways to integrate technology into the but in recent semesters, faculty members in the instructional technology and
curriculum when working with young children. She is special education departments have worked together to carefully redesign two
currently exploring ways to use the Promethean Board courses using the UDL principles. The group was inspired by the 2010
and ActivInspire software in Early Childhood National Educational Technology Plan, which presents UDL as a way to
classrooms. Additionally, Dr. Daniels’ students each design and implement accessible curriculum and assessments in order to meet
develop a functioning website that can be used to share the needs of 21st century learners.
information with the families, children, and colleagues
with whom they work. She maintains her own website How can I learn more?
and supports ECED faculty who are interested in doing Dr. Todd Rose, research scientist at the Center for Applied Special Technology
the same. Dr. Daniels would describe herself as a (CAST), and faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
technology nerd who really enjoys learning about and will present The new learning sciences: How variability in learning informs teaching in the
teaching new technologies. 21st century on Thursday, March 3rd at 6:30pm in the Lecture Hall. On Friday,
March 4th he will conduct workshops for COE and TEEB faculty. Please
register at http://edportfolio.wikispaces.com/UDL

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