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NAVIGATION:
Week One: Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (2/2)
Week Two: The Language of New Media (2/9)
Week Three: Representation and Knowledge in the Brain (2/16)
Week Four: The Challenges of Individual Differences: Representation (2/23)
Week Five: Individual Differences – Multiple Means of Representation (3/2)
Week Six: Expression in the Brain (3/9)
Week Seven: Strategic Networks and Expression in the Brain (3/16)
Week Eight: Vacation (3/23)
Week Nine: Individual Differences – Multiple Means of Action/Expression (3/30)
Week Ten: Affective Networks and Engagement in the Brain (4/6)
Week Eleven: Individual Differences: Motivation and Engagement (4/13)
Week Twelve: Meeting the Challenge: Multiple Means of Engagement (4/20)
Week Thirteen: Universal Design for Learning: Science and Social Studies (4/27)
Week Fourteen: Universal Design for Learning and Public Policy (5/4)
Week Fifteen: Final Projects and Closing Exercises (5/11)
INTRODUCTION
Week One: February 2
Introduction to Universal Design for Learning
| No Powerpoint Class Video No Student Notes |
Required Readings:
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning. Rose and Meyer, Chapters 1-4. Available in Coop, Amazon, library in paper,
OR, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (Web version)
Supplemental Media:
UDL on Teacher Tube: For others, search on UDL or Universal Design for Learning
UDL and Education 2.0
UDL on YouTube
Blogs, Wikis and Websites about UDL:
UDL at Rutgers University
UDL 4 All
Week Two: February 9
The Language of New Media
| No Powerpoint Class Video No Student Notes |
Required Interactives:
Zen Garden: A beautiful demonstration of the flexibility possible on the web
Club Penguin: An extremely popular social networking site for children
Second Life: (a virtual world where you can even have classes)
Virtual Heroes: An example of multiplayer learning environments
Supplemental Web Readings:
How Google is Making us Smarter
Blogs in Education
Social Media and the Classroom
Supplemental New Tools, Blogs, Wikis
Diigo: A tool for annotating the web and sharing your results
Digitally Speaking: A blog on education and technology
Educational interactives: A collection
Videogames in Education:
PART ONE: REPRESENTATION
Week Three: February 16
Representation and Knowledge in the Brain
| No Powerpoint No Video, Holiday No Student Notes |
Required Interactives and Videos:
The Brain from Top to Bottom (Interactive site – note leveling!)
1) Organization (from Simple to the Complex)
2) The Senses
3) From Thought to Language
Supplemental Videos: On Brain Maturation
How the Brain Matures
Adolescent Brain Maturation
Hemispherectomy
Supplemental Interactives and Videos on the Structure of the Nervous System
The structure of the nervous system: a Tutorial
Introduction to the Nervous System from New Scientist
Tutorial on the Nervous System – From the middle out
A navigable atlas of the brain – as neurologists see it
Good collection of videos on the brain and brain functions
A virtual trip through the brain
Interactives on Perception and Cognition:
The best site on illusions and cognition (esp the shadow illusion).
Blind man who “sees”
Supplemental Reading
How objects are represented in the brain
Annual Review of Psychology, 2007, 58, 25-45
Week Four: February 23
The Challenges of Individual Differences: Representation
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Alex, Colleen, Leslie, Melissa |
Required Readings (Journals):
Howard M. Lenhoff, Paul P. Wang, Frank Greenberg and Ursula Bellugi (1997); Williams Syndrome and the Brain, Scientific American, pp 68-73.
Darold Treffert and Gregory Wallace (2002); Islands of Genius: Scientific American pp 76-85.
Annette Karmiloff-Smith (2009): Nativism versus neuroconstructivism: Rethinking the study of developmental disorders.Developmental Psychology, 0012-1649, 2009,Vol. 45, Issue 1.
Supplemental Videos and Voices of Diversity:
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders:
David Tammet (The brainman video)
Nena Aragon (Discussing going to school with Asperger’s syndrome)
Emily (1) (A young woman with Asperger’s syndrome)
Emily (2)
Emily (3)
Alex; A young male student’s take on Asperger’s
An individual with Dyscalculia
Week Five: March 2
Meeting the Challenge of Individual Differences
(1) Multiple Means of Representation
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Becca, Francie, San Chye, Kaylin, Zainab |
Required Reading (either print or web)
Teaching Every Student: Universal Design for Learning; Chapters 5-7 (also in print version)
Universal Design for Learning Guidelines: Introduction through Guideline One.
Supplemental Reading
Technology and Reading Performance in MIddle-School Grades, a Meta-Analysis with Recommendations for policy and practices. Moran et al. Journal of Literacy Research, 2008, 40, 6-58
Supplemental Interactives and Examples (both good and bad)
The Hippocampus
Music in the Brain
Multiple forms of representation for Science
Supplemental Tools for Representation
ImageFinding: Tools for finding helpful images on the web
Screencasting: tool for making a movie of what is on your computer screen
MyWebspiration Free visual concept mapping – networked version
Portrait Maker/illustrator
First Assignment Due: Friday, March 13
see Assignments
PART TWO: ACTION AND EXPRESSION
Week Six: March 9
Expression in the Brain
| No Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Kristin, Marisa, Matt, Mike, Shilpa |
Required Interactives
The Brain from Top to Bottom (Interactive site – note leveling!)
Voluntary Movement section
Required Readings
Imagining the Developing Brain: What Have we learned about Cognitive Development?
B. J. Casey et al., Trends in Cognitive Science, 2005, 9, 3, 104-110
The Ebb and Flow of Attention in the Human Brain
Trey Hedden and John Gabrieli, Nature Neuroscience, 2006, 9, 7, 863-865
Supplemental Videos:
How the Brain Matures
Adolescent Brain Maturation
Hemispherectomy
Week Seven: March 16
Strategic Networks and Expression in the Brain
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Aneeka, Eugene, Kerry, Megan |
Readings and Interactives
Voluntary Movement
From The Brain, Top to Bottom
Imaging the Developing Brain: What have we learned about cognitive development
MacSweeney et al.,Trends in Cognitive Science, 2008, 12, 11, 432-44
Deficits in Executive Function Processes: A Curriculum-Based Intervention
Rose, D, and Rose, K. In Executive Functions in Education: From Theory to Practice.
In their own words: Videos
Language and Music Therapy
Dyspraxia and Me
Dyspraxia and Me (2)
Dyscalculia and Me
Week Eight: March 23
VACATION
Week Nine: March 30
Meeting the Challenge of Individual Differences
(2) Multiple Means of Action and Expression
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Alana, Jesse, Mehreen, Robert, Sarah |
Readings and Interactives:
Guidelines for Multiple Means of Expression
Supplemtal Videos and Wikis:
How to videos: Wonder How To
How to make a brain cake
How to Search for Images Online
100 top tools for eductors
How to annotate videos: Viddler
Week Ten: April 6
Affective Networks and Engagement in the Brain
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Mark, Meghan, Natalie, Shefali |
Readings and Interactives:
The Functional Neuroanatomy of Emotion and Affective Style
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 1, 11-17.
Affect is a Form of Cognition: A Neurobiological Analysis
Duncan and Barrett, Emotion and Cognition, 2007, pp 1184-1211.
Week Eleven: April 13
Individual Differences:
Motivation and Engagement
| No Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Allison, Christi, Christina, Jamie, Natpat |
Readings and Interactives:
Project Implicit Website (Harvard)
Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention
Cohen et al., Science, 2006, 313, 5791, 1307-1310.
Individual Differences in Amygdala and Ventromedial Cortex Activity Are Associated with Evaluation Speed and Psychological Well-Being
Reekum et al., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2007), 19. 2, 237-248.
Week Twelve: April 20
Meeting the Challenge:
Means of Engagement
| Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Carolyn, Elena, Heidi, Jan, Mina, Yuet |
Readings and Interactives:
Mathematics and Science Achievement: Effects Of Motivation, Interest, and Academic Engagement.
Dika, Journal of Educational Research, 2002.
Guidelines for Multiple Means of Engagement
Identifying the Disabilities in a Lesson or Curriculum
Self-Check Your Own Curriculum
Week Thirteen: April 27
Universal Design for Learning:
Science and Social Studies
| No Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: Amanda, Cathy, JinSil, Lettie, Nancy, Prachi |
Interactives:
Thinking Like an Historian (Link and Password to be provided)
NSF Collaborative Project (Link and Password to be provided)
Week Fourteen: May 4
Universal Design for Learning and Public Policy
| No Powerpoint Class Video Student Notes: David, Julie, Kaavya, Nicole, Padmaja |
Readings and Interactives:
The National Instructional Materials Accessibiity Standard (NIMAS)
The Higher Education Act of 2008 (link to be provided)
