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Running head: SUPPORTING LEARNER DIVERSITY WITH UDL 1 Supporting Learner Diversity with Universal Design for Learning for the Intermediate Elementary Classroom (Design Project Proposal) Lisa Falconi, Tania Longinotti, Sandra Magnussen, Trevor Price, Sandra Tice University of British Columbia ETEC 510, Section 65A, Diane Janes February 14, 2015

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Running head: SUPPORTING LEARNER DIVERSITY WITH UDL 1

Supporting Learner Diversity with Universal

Design for Learning for the Intermediate Elementary Classroom

(Design Project Proposal)

Lisa Falconi, Tania Longinotti, Sandra Magnussen, Trevor Price, Sandra Tice

University of British Columbia

ETEC 510, Section 65A, Diane Janes

February 14, 2015

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The biggest mistake of past centuries has been to treat all children as if they were

variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching the same

subjects in the same ways. - Howard Gardner (Gardner, Siegel & Shaughnessy,

1994, p. 564)

The focus of our design project is to create a learning environment that will support a

diversity of learners based upon the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) while

exploring the appropriate technology usage to support differentiation in intermediate elementary

classrooms. We will develop an interactive “teacher’s toolbox” website – as a functional and

practical framework based on UDL principles, that will give teachers the tools they need to

provide broadly differentiated access within their own classrooms as well as support professional

development.

Key Frameworks

The theoretical context for differentiated instruction (DI) and UDL is based on the

constructivist approach that grew from the work of psychologists, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky,

who both viewed learning as an active and interactive process of building knowledge. According

to Piaget, learners construct knowledge through accommodations and assimilation, that is, they

construct knowledge and a system for understanding the world, through an active engagement

with the world (Stone & Reid, 1994). Vygotsky (1980) suggests that learning occurs through

interactions with others and that the “internalization of encounters with the world result in higher

order thinking” (p. 90-91).

The effect of these types of theories on modern pedagogy is to emphasize that teaching

“with more purposeful activities, provides opportunities for students to construct their own

knowledge while solving puzzles, replaces rote learning with meaningful lessons, substitutes

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direct instruction with incidental learning, and emphasizes the construction rather than the

transmission of knowledge” (Null, 2004, p. 182). It follows that, if the learner constructs

knowledge, then different learners require different instruction. Differentiated instruction

emphasizes the diversity of learners in modern classrooms (Tomlinson, 2000; Stanford &

Reeves, 2009; Schumm & Vaughn, 1991). Tomlinson (2000), for instance, identifies three areas

that can be differentiated depending on the needs of individual children: content, process, and

product.  The teacher uses diagnostic assessment to identify the need to adjust approaches

depending on student readiness, interest and learning style.  In the differentiated classroom, the

teacher structures instruction to highlight the most important learning outcomes and provides

different paths to success depending on individual student needs.

The term Universal Design for Learning originated from an architectural movement

concerned with ensuring universal access for persons with disabilities, called “Universal

Design”.   Universal access, it was discovered, “benefitted not only those with disabilities, but all

users” (Hall, Strangman & Meyer, 2004, p. 6). The founders of UDL then “addressed the

disabilities of schools rather than students” and “leveraged the flexibility of digital technology to

design learning environments that from the outset offered options for diverse learners” (Meyer,

Rose & Gordon, 2014, ch. 1, para. 12).

Another important theoretical foundation for UDL comes from research based in

neuroscience. There are three neural networks that have been identified as crucial for learning:

the affective network, related to learner engagement; the recognition network, related to

perceiving information and turning into knowledge; and the strategic network that organizes and

plans “purposeful action in the environment” (Meyer et al., 2014).

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Source: (Meyer et al., 2014, ch 3)

New brain scan imaging technologies have given us greater understanding of diversity

and how learning occurs in the brain (Kendal, 2000). These tools allow us to see the brain as it

learns, giving us the understanding and a sound research base indicating the need for flexibility

and choice in learning environments.

Corresponding with these neural networks are the UDL guidelines for instruction that

should “provide multiple means of engagement,” multiple means of “representation,” and

multiple means of “action and expression” (CAST, 2011).  Or as it is succinctly phrased in

Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice, “to learn we need to care about what we

are learning and want to learn it; we need to take in and build knowledge; and we need to

develop skill and fluency in our actions “ (Meyer et al., 2014, ch. 3, para. 23).

The relationship between UDL and digital technology is essential for differentiated

instruction. While assistive software was crucial to the development of the theory, digital

technology in general has made individualization of curricula, consistent with UDL guidelines,

more practical. As well, the National Center on Universal Design for Learning points out that the

learning of technology is a goal in itself, considering how pervasive it has become. However, the

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adaptation of curricula according to UDL principles should not be identified as exclusively the

domain of digital technology (CAST, 2014).

Intentions and Positions

Our intention within this proposal is to create an interactive resource to support teachers

of students in the intermediate elementary level. Diversity is the norm in all classrooms and we

believe that the educational learning environment best serves the needs of its members when it is

designed from the onset to serve the majority of its learners (Tomlinson, 2011; Rose, David, &

Meyer, 2002). This resource will support differentiation of instruction in the design-learning

environment, regardless of the content area. This is especially important as teachers are facing

numerous challenges in creating learning environments to complement the participatory culture

of the learners alongside them.

Students who struggle with learning disabilities, visual impairments, and processing are

well served in an environment structured by the principles of UDL (Katz, 2012; Rose et al.,

2002). UDL guidelines offer strategies for teachers on how to differentiate across the curriculum

and all students can benefit from using the principles of UDL. In the past, accessibility tools

were the exception in the classroom; small numbers of students with dyslexia may have used text

reading software such as Kurzweil 3000, but the buy-in and usage were both low. Access to

technology tools within teaching environments has made it much easier to offer choices to all

learners about how to represent their understanding of concepts regardless of ability or

educational level.

UDL builds in the support for all students, so those who need it can choose it without the

stigma of a disability. “A person who appears learning disabled in a print-bound, text-based

environment may look extraordinarily skilled in a graphics or video-based environment” (Rose et

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al., 2002, p.6). Today’s software improvements include built-in accessibility features such as

speech-to-text and text-to-speech at the touch of a button, so that most laptop and tablet

operating systems can easily provide improved student access without significant added cost.

Research supports the concept that when accessibility is increased, specifically relating to

typically content-heavy text, all students, not just those for whom assistive technology was

originally intended, will benefit (Rose et al., 2002; Hehir, Thomas & Katzman, 2012; Katz,

2012).

A fundamental change occurring in education is the understanding of the importance of

learning goals. The ultimate educational goal will no longer be about the mastery of content, as

content is available everywhere, but the mastery of learning. The emphasis of expert learning

will be a vital skill to 21st century students. These students will know their own strengths and

weaknesses, know the kinds of media adaptation strategies and technologies to overcome their

weaknesses and to extend their strengths, and be the kind of group members that participate and

collaborate with peers and colleagues (Rose et al., 2002; Mouza & Lavigne, 2013; Kalantis &

Cope, 2010). We must aim to develop students who are critical thinkers that can read, write and

speak effectively. To develop these higher order skills, students need to take part in complex

meaningful projects that require sustained engagement, collaboration, research, and management

of resources (Darling-Hammond, 2008).

None of these changes can be achieved without a transformation of the teaching

profession. If we are to have a new learner, we need new teachers, and the new teacher will be a

designer of learning environments (Kalantis & Cope, 2010). New technology changes

everything; it is both a gain and a loss; a blessing and a burden. (Postman, 1992). It is not always

clear who may benefit most at the onset of a new technology. Teachers and students are both

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struggling with the fact that traditional classroom settings are not the ideal learning spaces for

today’s students. Our students are now considered to be digital natives, having been born with

technology and access to information at their fingertips, while many educators are digital

immigrants, finding the technology a steep learning curve. (Baytak, Tarman, & Ayas, 2011).

Students have evolved beyond simply being digital natives to being part of what is now termed

Generation P, or a participatory learning culture, that is quite used to producing online content as

part of everyday life. Kalantzis and Cope (2010) believe teachers today must adapt toward and

begin to nurture this new type of participatory learner. Teachers will need the support and

professional development to create an environment of inquiry, where the principles of UDL

support the use of technology to increase a student’s understanding about themselves as learners

and citizens. A lack of infrastructure also may impede this, as technology has appeared in

classrooms, but not truly been integrated to increase learning (Puentadura, 2002; Rose et al.,

2002).

Key Concepts and Contexts

Based upon the combined background knowledge, classroom and district level teaching

experience of the five educators involved within this project, we have formulated our hypothesis

that using appropriate technology to support differentiated learning styles within the elementary

classroom, combined with principles of UDL, can benefit all learners and ultimately contribute

to increased student success. Additionally, we believe that a static “one-size-fits-all” curriculum

can be a barrier to student learning. From this initial starting point, we begin with an examination

of the proposed changes to the British Columbia Ministry of Education Curriculum.

The BC Ministry of Education (2010) initially embarked on a process intended to help

transform education in BC to better meet the needs of all learners. With input from quality

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educational researchers and from current practicing teachers, the new BC Curriculum proposes

to allow educators greater freedom and teaching autonomy to create a learning environment in

which students will be able to showcase their learning based on their individual needs and

differentiated learning paths. The most recent BC Education Plan (2015), continues to cite the

research emphasizing that no two students learn the same way, or at the same pace, and that

effective learning is far more than just memorizing information – rather it is about getting

students to apply their knowledge in real-world settings. The new curriculum will increasingly

emphasize key concepts, deeper knowledge, and more meaningful understanding of subject

matter and will also reflect the core competencies and skills that students need to succeed in the

21st century. The Ministry of Education in British Columbia has been active in the promotion of

UDL as an environment within which to achieve these competencies. In collaboration with

Special Education Technology British Columbia (SET BC) over the past few years, a number of

UDL projects have been funded in school districts across BC. The ministry has a core belief that

a UDL curriculum is designed from the outset to be accessible to the widest possible range of

students.

Guided by the new curriculum, we will situate our specific project within the upper

elementary school grades 4-7, sometimes referred to as “Middle Years,” comprised of students,

ages 10-13 years of age.

Because the proposed BC curriculum (BC, 2015) strives to address needs of the full

range of students, reaching across socioeconomic, and geographic divides; our project for

middle-year students will support teachers in offering more student choice and allowing students

to explore areas of passion, as well as providing opportunities to apply foundational skills from

the formative early primary years to inquiry- and project-based learning that will link their

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learning to the wider community. BC’s proposed curriculum is based upon cross-curricular

competencies intended to facilitate “whole child development – intellectually, personally, and

socially,” through teaching skills within the areas of critical thinking, creative thinking and

reflective thinking through increased personal, social and communication competencies, placing

emphasis upon addressing “Big Ideas” in subject areas and allowing for broad interpretation by

professional educators within the classrooms. Increasing students’ digital literacy is another area

touched upon within the BC Curriculum changes, with the hope that students will have multiple

opportunities to increase understanding and skill usage of digital media and communication tools

as part of learning, social participation, and professional preparation.

With UDL as our model for classroom teaching and learning, our project will identify

useful teaching tools that endeavour to place each learner at the centre of their own learning.

Dumont, Instance & Benavides (2010) and Hall, Meyer and Rose (2012) state that curricula

should be defined by how adequately the diversity and variability of learners can be supported

and that a successful or rigorous curriculum is one that provides genuine learning opportunities

for all. It should be responsive and nimble enough to adjust to the needs and interests of all users,

including students, teachers, and members of the wider educational system. A UDL framework

helps educators plan for diversity in the classroom.

We also propose that educators embrace a model of interdisciplinary integration that can

best be achieved via a team-based, collaborative approach, providing students with problem-

based learning opportunities and connections between varying disciplines across the curriculum.

An interdisciplinary context helps students to think critically while developing the skills needed

to evaluate the materials used in their learning (Sandwell, 2003).

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The New London Group (1996) coined the term “multiliteracies” to address a need for

literacy learning across a broad spectrum of skills and knowledge while connecting to available

technologies and new communications media. O’Rourke (2001) also addresses the need to

engage students through a multiliteracies approach, so that students are able to draw upon

knowledge and contexts from many disciplines, as well as on multiple communication

modalities. Preparing students for a future where they are able to critically think in many

contexts also shapes their direction of technology use and social relationships with each other

rather than society being shaped by the technology itself.

In a world where students outside the classroom are often media producers as well as

consumers (Kafai, 1995), educators work with students and find that out-of-school experiences

greatly impact the way that their students learn within the classroom walls. Student interest is

highly relevant and valuable as a means to understand the world in a personally meaningful

manner (Papert, 1993; Shively, 2014). Dewey argued that interest-driven experiences engage

people in deep, purposeful activities exhibiting one's power (Dewey, 1913, 1916, 1938, as cited

by Shively, 2014). Education in more recent years drifted away from Dewey’s interest-based

approach instead providing a more standardized delivery model. The pendulum today swings

back to the premise that educational pedagogy should support the individual learner’s needs. In

fact, Glass, Meyer and Rose (2013) advocate for a curricular reform designed from the outset to

embrace and enhance the natural variability of learners.

Our proposed learning environment and educator toolbox for middle year students will be

supported by technology that is useful to a diverse set of learners. Maker, Sonmi and Muammar

(as cited by Newton and Newton, 2014) describe a problem-solving, project-based model in the

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classroom that supports creativity and emphasizes students’ freedom of choice. In this model,

students:

- set their own goals and decide how to meet them

- have opportunities to openly discuss possibilities

- experience the challenge of creating something

- have opportunities to work alone or with peers

- help to define expectations of the outcome

We will endeavour to provide technological tools that guide creative teaching methods

supporting these types of student learning opportunities.

Throughout Maker et al’s model outlined by Newton and Newton (2014), teachers

support creative thinking processes by using probing questions, encouraging justification and

explanation. Our toolbox will help teachers embrace this approach to design a learner-centric

environment that fits into the new BC curriculum with a strong focus on UDL principles that

support the diversity of students’ needs encountered into today’s upper intermediate elementary

classrooms.

InterActivities

As we are attempting to meet the needs of many different learners, we need to provide a

variety of tools for our teachers to use. This includes meeting the needs of students with learning

disabilities and those from different cultural backgrounds. It is a challenge for teachers to create

diverse classrooms so the architecture we will develop for this project will be a website designed

to meet the needs of as many learners as possible. It will be effective for teachers with specific

instruction to connect to the curriculum and not just the technology. Using the guidelines of UDL

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our interactive toolbox will offer multiple ways to display information, scaffolding, and

comprehension by providing students, through their teachers, with options.

The site will focus on the elementary panel, be interactive and collaborative. One

challenge for teachers is the time to plan lessons, especially with technology in which they are

unfamiliar. Therefore, this is to be a toolkit providing teachers with the opportunity to get started

and encourage them to take risks just as we ask our students to do.

Below are the proposed headings for the site:

Since not all teachers know what the concepts of UDL are, we will

provide a branch to further explore UDL and explain the principles to the

novice teacher.  Surveys and/or checklists will be provided within this

section for teachers to assess their current teaching and determine the

needs of their students through a multiple intelligences survey. Effective learning is based on the

students’ background knowledge and the experiences they bring with them.

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The UDL Tools section of the website will provide teachers with resources

to assist in the obstacles of differentiated instruction and learning. One of

the principles of UDL is giving students a number of ways to demonstrate

their proficiency of learning while the third principle is to provide students

with many opportunities for engagement. This means finding the tools that will support new

delivery methods of curriculum and making learning more meaningful for students.

The Lesson Plan section of the site will be developed to provide meaningful

assignments under the UDL umbrella such as cooperative learning, gradual

release of responsibility, project based learning, and inquiry learning.

This website is designed for sharing of information; therefore, parts of the

site should be fluid. The interactive wiki is where teachers can upload their

own examples and/or lesson plans. Here will be a discussion activity perhaps

via Padlet, or even built in discussion threads (comment posts) for teachers

to share their ideas of how to implement UDL in the classroom.

Just like students, not all teachers learn the same; therefore the videos will

provide some visual examples of teachers using UDL strategies in their

classrooms.

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Assessment strategies need to be differentiated for each student. This section

will provide tools for student expression so they may demonstrate their

learning in alternative ways.

Overall, this interactive website will meet the needs of various learning styles, provide

teachers with tools to make engaging lessons, and opportunities for flexible expression of

learning.

Verifications

The purpose of our project is to create an online learning environment that supports

diversity of learners in elementary school based on the principles of UDL. The website will

provide teachers with online professional development. In order to achieve this, we will

incorporate various constructivist practices to allow for a cognitive presence to develop critical

thinking skills, a social presence that allows for collaborative learning, and a teaching presence

in the design of the website (Anderson, 2008). This will encourage teachers to take advantage of

knowledge, growth and discovery, in their own subject area and within the scholarly community

of other educators. In order to validate that our goal in educating teachers in assistive technology

will be effective we will implement both formative and summative evaluations.

Our formative evaluation will assess the value of the information we provide while the

program activities are in progress. For this evaluation we will embed a pre-survey on the website

to determine teachers’ background knowledge of UDL. The results will eventually help with the

analysis and/or modification of learning material and the design’s effectiveness. Our summative

evaluation will be the method of assessing the value of our learning environment at the end of

the learning activities. The focus will be whether teachers achieved the learning outcomes stated

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in our proposal. A Google survey link will be sent out to teachers who registered to the online

learning environment to give anonymous feedback regarding the website’s ease of use,

collaborative learning opportunities, and overall design. Our proposed activities will be designed

to give data that is significant in obtaining user feedback and will be carefully executed to ensure

the data is accurate and valid.

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