Week 5 - EDUC 5313 Universal Design for Learning - Article Summary
Article Summary: Universal Design for Learning: Guidelines for Accessible Online Instruction. Universal Design for Learning ensures equity for all learners not only those who have already been identified with IEP which include accommodations and modifications. The principles of UDL help educators reimagine how learning can take place in their classrooms. Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) staffers David Rose, Anne Meyer among colleagues are credited with coining the term, and have modeled the philosophy to Ronald Mace’s universal designs in architecture. Mace was an architect, who also used a wheelchair, and was a staunch proponent of functional facilities for all that were also aesthetically pleasing too. In the article the concept of UDL is likened to the fairy tale of Goldilocks - and I’m not sure if I like this analogy. I feel like this lessens the greatness which can be achieved through UDL in classrooms, and turns it into something that is somehow fiction or only app