Universal Design for Learning is a concept for classroom instruction that we all strive to achieve. It is a seamless blending of curriculum materials and methods that balances what is being taught with a student's capacity and ability to learn. Technology, particularly digital media, becomes an integral part of curriculum materials, not an add-on that is targeted at specific students. This new media has the flexibility to allow teachers to create content which can be diseminated in multiple ways to students - audio, text, visual. The burden for creating this environment lies with creative and hopefully well-supported teachers who can see beyond the paper textbook and understand the potential of incorporating new and alternative methods of accessing information into a lesson in order to provide all students with a chance to learn. It is all about flexiblity, access and options. (Post 5b)
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