Article Review - Assistive Technology and Universal Design for Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Assistive Technology and Universal Design for Learning: Two Sides of the Same Coin

This article made me reflect on either day one or two of our course when we discussed universal design for learning. In that class, we discussed how UDL was not just planning of the masses but rather the outliers. The article is saying that UDL and AT go hand and hand. Without AT your lesson are not universally designed. UDL creates a learning environment that is contusive for ALL learners. A learning environment where students’ strengths and weakness are accounted and accommodated to ensure the path to success is clear. The one thing that really has stuck with me during this course is digitize…..digitize……digitize.

How a simple task as educators that we can complete that makes learning and literacy accessible to many. Many, who without it are stuck at a barrier waiting, waiting for their turn to learn. 

CAST - Universal Design for Learning