UDL in the Web 2.0 World
The article "Web 2.0: A New Generation of Learners and
Education" written by Dina Rosen and Charles Nelson, addressed the many
changes in technology that we have experienced in just a short timeframe.
"Gillmor (2004) wrote, "In the past 150 years we've
essentially had two distinct means of communication: one-to-many (books,
newspaper, radio, and TV) and one-to-one (letters, telegraph, and
telephone). The Internet, for the first
time, gives us many-to-many and few-to-few communication." This change in communication has given
teachers all over the world the chance to communicate with each other. They can meet up on a website to share and
critique lesson plans. Teachers can use
blogs and sites to produce mass social sharing of information, images, and
more.
The internet plays a major role for applying an EDL in the
classroom. With the internet teachers and students
can access an unlimited amount of educational sites. There are websites that cater to all different
types of learning styles. Teachers are
able to make changes to their lesson plans quickly with the use of Word
Processor. Word can also be used for
students who can’t use pens or pencils.
This class in itself is a form of UDL. Because this course is purely online,
students have much more leeway in when they work on assignments. This is beneficial for people who have
children or who work.
The Today Show video was hilarious and mind-boggling all at
once. The utter cluelessness of the
anchors was really funny, but I couldn’t really fathom how someone couldn’t understand
what the internet was or what one could do with it. It has been so prevalent in my life that I can’t,
and don’t want, to imagine life without it.
I definitely agree with you about the today show. We are so used to technology in our everyday life that it is so easy to forget we were once without it!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Katie! I think that its crazy to believe that there was a time (not too long ago) when the Internet wasn't used on a daily basis for daily things. How in the world did the people at that time survive?!
ReplyDeleteNice job pulling out key ideas and quotes from the readings. I'm sure you meant to say UDL (vs. EDL)-- but you make a great point about how our course is essentially delivered in that format. You might think about other ideas that can be considered universal or even Web 2.0 tools beyond a word processor. While certainly that can be considered tech, to a degree, there are so many tools now that facilitate expression of knowledge (visually, graphically, using audio, etc.). I look forward to seeing what tool you chose to review in the next post.
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