Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough

Name: Christine Vaiana
Date: October 1, 2007
Hour: 1:00 PM
Your Mood: cheerful

Chapter 2 – “What Brain Research Tells us About Learner Differences”

1. recognition network (stimuli), strategic network (responses and actions), affective networks (value system) – all 3 networks involved in learning, students differ in all 3

Chapter 3 – “Why We Need Flexible Instructional Media”

1. Media can be transformed and offer different representations – medium can carry the same info but display it and engage kids in it in very different ways.

Chaper 4 – “What is Universal Design for Learning” -

1. has origins in architecture – architects were taught to design with the full range of users needs in mind; same ideas for teachers: design goals, methods, materials, and assessments with all students in mind;
multiple means of representation, expression, engagement

Chapter 5 approaches goals – using UDL to set clear goals

1. multiple ways for reaching a goal

Chapter 6 – materials and methods for reaching goals

1. highlight critical features, support background knowledge

Chapter 7 – focuses on assessment

1. accurate assessments support teachers in providing good instruction

Chapter 8 – “Making Universal Design for Learning a Reality.”

1. no perfect examples, no fixed recipe or blueprint, always about alternatives