Whether in a face-to-face, online, or blended learning environment, you can design your learning space as one where every learner, with their “unique abilities, backgrounds and preferences' ' (inclusive365.com) can feel supported by your demonstration of an inclusive mindset. In this UDL-inspired presentation, we will explore some tried-and-true and some less familiar strategies and tools that can support all learners in demonstrating their learning successfully.
With a focus on a range of student needs, we’ll look at both how to support individuals within a wider whole classroom scenario (e.g. audio and subtitle supports), as well as within a student’s own workflow (e.g. audio integration into Slides and text to speech), with a view of replacing barriers to learning with a variety of tools that can help students represent their learning more easily.
In the second half of this session, we’ll deep dive into the hows and whys of reading and writing supports provided by Texthelp’s recently updated Read & Write for Google and Orbit Note, as well as the timely and valuable integration of Microsoft’s (free for all) Immersive Reader in apps such as Flipgrid and Wakelet.
As the session closes, we’ll open the conversation of ethical implications of educational technology tools in a world that promotes inclusion. I.e. As we provide more inclusive environments, are there new groups of “haves and have-nots” that emerge, and if so, how can we combat this to truly support all learners in our classrooms to the same degree?
Leave this session with some new tools in your toolkit, some old tools revisited in their new renditions, and some great ideas to help you support all learners back at school and beyond.
Target Audience
Teachers, School-based Administrators, Instructional Coaches, Learning Coaches, Inclusive Learning Teachers
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