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There was so much more to learn and absorb this week that I wondering whether I would finish by Sunday. This weeks’ learning incorporated the Lesson Builder and Book Builder sites from CAST, used for UDL learning. The sites provided informative tools that are applicable to a diverse range of students. In reading Chapter 6 from “Teaching every student in the digital age: Universal design for Learning” it provided insights into implementing diverse instruction in a classroom using technology and the UDL concepts. In individualizing teaching methods, it explained the use of the recognition, strategic, and affective networks. I really appreciate the layout of the chapter in how it created a concept map for the different brain networks. This article helped in creating the lesson plan, after several readings.

In the second readings, we learned about the importance of feedback. The book provided generalizations that stated that feedback should be corrective in nature, timely, specific to a criterion, and that students can provide some of their own feedback. We learned the importance of immediate feedback for it to be effective and to provide adjustments and/or course corrections. The chapter addressed the different technology resources available like word processing applications, data collection tools, classroom response systems, and web resources. At our District, we have some classrooms that are currently using the equipment from eInstruction. We read the appendix and it reinforced the four planning question we had in the introduction.

 Pitler, H., Hubbell, E., Kuhn, M., & Malenoski, K. (2007). //Using technology with classroom instruction that works.// Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 41-58, 217-225.