Tag: UDL
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With bans on phones and social media, we are disarming students who refuse to swallow the bunting.
Blanket phone bans are a failure to do holistic, systems thinking and adopt structural ideology. Those require community conversation. Those require understanding and recognizing ecosystems. Those require thinking in terms of prevention (in social work terms) instead of tier 1 intervention (in RTI terms). Phone bans are bikeshedding. Phone bans are fundamental attribution error. Phone…
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An Inclusive Conference Model for Our Times
I am presenting virtually at UDL Con about our Virtual First approach to the affordances of Discord as they relate to Conference to Restore Humanity. Between now and, say, CTRH at the end of July, can you send me specifics I can relay to attendees of the UDL Con event for how CTRH works for…
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Everyone Needs a Properly Equipped Toolbelt to Get Through Life
Phones and tablets and especially laptops are essential tools for navigating modernity. Instead of being banned, they should be baked into the learning experience using toolbelt theory, workflow thinking, differentiated instruction, and Universal Design for Learning. Toolbelt Theory is based in the concept that students must learn to assemble their own readily available collection of…
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Stimpunks Invites You to Join Us Online at the Conference to Restore Humanity 2023 on July 24th
We were at last year’s Conference to Restore Humanity and are attending again this year. This online conference includes us like no other. Now we have the opportunity and understanding to move from emergency pandemic remote school and its pantomime of learning to purposefully designed online education spaces that are accessible, sustainable, and representative of the communities…
