Universal Design for Learning CS

Universal Design is a practice born out of architecture, and the
late Ronald Mace, whose approach was to consider every body in
the design of the built environment, not to design for some and
amend or "adapt" for others. Guests in this episode discuss
Universal Design for Learning, which shares this ideology as it
relates to pedagogy and the design of learning environments.


Maya Israel, Ph.D. is an associate professor of
Educational Technology in the School of Teaching and Learning at
the University of Florida. She is also the research director at
the Creative Technology Research Lab. Dr. Israel’s research
focuses on strategies for supporting students with disabilities
and other struggling learners’ meaningful engagement in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) with emphases on
computational thinking, computer science education, and Universal
Design for Learning (UDL).


Meg Ray is the Teacher in Residence at Cornell
Tech. She is responsible for the implementation and design of the
Teacher in Residence program, a coaching program for K-8 teachers
in New York City schools. An experienced middle and high school
computer science teacher and special educator, Meg directed the
design of the Codesters Python curricula for middle school
students and served as a writer for the Computer Science
Teachers’ Association K-12 CS Standards and as a special advisor
to the K12 CS Framework. She lives in New York.


Ron Summers is a nationally recognized educator
and the Executive Director for NYC Department of Education's
Computer Science 4 All. He is an expert in developing computer
science and entrepreneurship programs for special project
initiatives that focus on youth education using the design
processes and computer science principles.


Covert art for this episode: Giulia Forsythe


Links from this episode:


Ronald Mace:
https://projects.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/about_us/usronmace.htm


Universal Design for Learning:
http://www.cast.org/our-work/about-udl.html


Creative Technology Research
Lab: https://education.ufl.edu/ctrl/


Direct link to the UDL and collaborative discussion framework
section of the lab website:
https://education.ufl.edu/ctrl/projects/tactic/


UDL in CS crowdsourced document:
https://education.ufl.edu/ctrl/files/2020/05/Copy-of-UDL-and-CS_CT-remix.pdf


Cornell Tech: www.tech.cornell.edu


CAST: http://www.cast.org/


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