Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as Pathway to Equitable Learning

“Wicked Tools” to Solve “Wicked Problems” – Building a Toolkit to Support Conversations about Digital Equity

You are welcome to use these slides to create activities in your schools.

Scholarly Works that influenced this session:

• Bryk, A. S., Gomez, L. M., Grunow, A., & LeMahieu, P. G. (2015). Learning to improve: How America’s schools can get better at getting better. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Education Press.
• Collins, A., & Halverson, R. (2010). The second educational revolution: rethinking education in the age of technology. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 26(1), 18–27. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2729.2009.00339.
• Gee, J. P. (2008). A sociocultural Perspective on opportunity to learn. In P. A. Moss, D. C. Pullin, J. P. Gee, E. H. Haertel, & L. J. Young (Eds.), Assessment, equity, and opportunity to learn. Cambridge.
• Gregory, E., Hardiman, M., Yarmolinskaya, J., Rinne, L., & Limb, C. (2013). Building creative thinking in the classroom: From research to practice. International Journal of Educational Research, 62, 43–50. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2013.06.003
• Hardiman, M. M. (2012). The brain-targeted teaching model for 21st-century schools. Corwin Press.
• Kraft, U. (2005). Unleashing creativity. Scientific American Mind, 16(1), 16-23.
• Perkins, D. (2014). Future Wise: Educating our children for a changing world. John Wiley & Sons.
• Tyack, D. B., & Cuban, L. (1995). Tinkering toward utopia: A century of public school reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Zhao, Y. (2018). What Works May Hurt—Side Effects in Education. Teachers College Press.

Blog Articles and Web Resources

• Leverage Improvement Science as a Blueprint for Change
• To Ensure Success, First Define the Black Box of Innovation
• Smoothing the Way for Change
• Finding the Greater Purpose in 1:1 Technology Programs
• The Extraordinaires Game
• Project Zero Visible Thinking

If you are looking for even more reading, I have a list of references as well as a public Diigo library.