Wanting to create learning (and living) environments that encourage and support the participation and achievement of everyone in a highly diverse population? Thinking UDL might be the answer? Wondering what UDL means to you… what its all about… where it came from…if “universal” really includes the people you care and are responsible for… how it “fits” with the other things you do…and, what resources and tools are “out there” to help you?

If so, this session is for YOU!

In this lively session, Joy Zabala will lead participants on a journey that begins with the early development of Universal Design for Learning and proceeds right up to most current thinking about UDL implementation. Come hear ten important ideas that everyone needs to know about UDL beginning with a quick look at the revolutionary tool that prompted the development of UDL and how UDL thinking has changed over the twenty-years since its introduction. Experience different ways that UDL principles and practices can be represented. Hear about how UDL works with AT, AIM and Learning Technologies. Learn about the National Center for UDL, the UDL Guidelines, and many other free resources, supports and tools.

Delegates will leave this session with the ability to:

* Explain the disciplines that inform UDL and sources of supporting research

* Name the three principles of UDL and the four pillars of the UDL curriculum

* Demonstrate ways in which AT, AIM and UDL are complementary

* Obtain tools and resources available to support for the implementation of UDL

Experience needed to benefit from this session

No prior experience with the technologies to be discussed is required.

This session is more about big ideas, principles and practices than about specific technologies. Any technologies introduced or discussed in this session will typically be common and/or web-based, thus easily used by people even with varying levels of experience with computers and associated technologies.

Age group targeted by this session
The primary focus of this presentation is on education and schools, however, the principles and practices discussed apply to learning at any age and examples will be provided of application across the life span.