Notes for session #223 taken by Puja Gupta
Dr. Smith and Dr. Croasdaile spoke about their research on UDL in higher ed – they taught a class in a UDL way and researched how it worked and didn’t and how students found it via survey
- Started with a ‘sort’ activity – to get us moving and active
- Positive relationship between profs using UDL and ‘student engagement and interest’
- Started class with a plastic lunch tray and plastic foods – made analogy with research methods —- relate because each have a specific place (on the tray, ex. The milk) and in the paper
- 1st class also did multiple intelligence inventory and then had students sit in groups of similar interests
- Pirates vs. ninjas (qualitative vs. quantitative research)
- Planning time was heavy, but during class had little to do
- Every class has a song, ex. Beyonce’s If you like it you shoulda put a ring on it! – for class on Hypothesis, RESPECT by Aretha Franklin for Ethics class
- Made ‘trading cards’ like baseball cards, of researchers – if you went to class you got a card – if you made it to all 8 classes, then they’d put you in a running for AERA membership (worth $30) so they can see they are a part of something bigger
- Cocktail party – where each person is a different concept and then others were asking questions of them – like a cocktail party
- One day all got mail (both profs weren’t there cuz were at conference) and had student from previous class come in and ‘deliver’ this mail – with objectives/goals for the day, and their concept or role for the day — they loved it- loved ‘getting mail’ and it being personalized
- AFFECT AFFECT AFFECT! J