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Week 5 Blog

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  K-12 online lesson alignment to the principles of UDL: the Khan Academy  SUMMARY The article begins with a discussion of the growing number of students and parents from all states opting for fully online or blended learning. (Smith & Harvey, 2014) With this article being written in 2014, I imagine that the numbers have only increased because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors go on to state that all types of learners are involved in this increase of numbers including students with disabilities and at-risk students. They also provide sources that suggest the potential of online learning to “transform student learning and outcomes through flexible content and instructional delivery” (Smith & Harvey, 2014, p.223). After defining the terminology describing accessibility in their study, the authors go on to introduce the Universal Design for learning (UDL), a broadly accepted framework. which offers “a general blueprint for considering how instructional ...
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Week 3 Blog

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Chapter four of How People Learn : Processes That Support Learning outlines three major points when discussing how people orchestrate their own learning: metacognition, executive function, and self-regulation (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2018). Each of these domains and how they interplay ties in with Gura's Innovation Process found in Chapter 4 of the text in that higher levels of thinking are required to execute this process (Gura, 2016). The ITSE standard 1.1.a goes right along with the idea of self-regulation described in chapter four of How People Learn as it involves students articulating and setting personal learning goals (International Society of Technology in Education, 2023). National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2018).  How people      learn II: Learners, contexts, and cultures . Washington, DC: The National      Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783. National Academies of Scien...
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Week 2 Blog

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Part I:      Authentic Intellectual Work is not concerned with a student's superficial comprehension of academic concepts but more with the value of these concepts outside of school, students' ability to construct knowledge to solve unique problems by using existing knowledge, and their in-depth understanding and ability to extensively communicate that understanding. The nature of this work is connected to the work of successful adults and the value of their work in the professional world. What stood out to me most in the reading was the emphasis on in-depth understanding and the importance for students to be able to display this knowledge both through communication but also through problem-solving ( Newmann et al., 2007).      In the fast-paced, assessment-obsessed public school culture it is seemingly impossible to create the type of learning experiences described in the reading. With increased pressure on teachers to provide instruction that leads to pas...
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Week 1 Blog

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   Part I: Introduction   My name is Daniel Shane Burke and I am the vocal music and theatre teacher at Coeburn Middle School and Eastside High School in Coeburn, VA. I am also the VHSL Theatre coach for Eastside High School.  Since I began coaching in 2014, my team has won nine consecutive VHSL state championships in theatre. I also coached forensics at Eastside High School for five years, three of which, Eastside won the VHSL state championship in forensics. I direct the spring productions at both of my schools and sponsor All-County Choir events at Coeburn Middle School annually. I regularly volunteer at the Lyric Theatre in St, Paul, VA, providing direction services and workshops for students in music al theatre, audition preparation, and beginning music-reading.       I am currently pursuing a master's degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State University in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in theatre with expected com...
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