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TPACK Approach
This method of lesson planning involves the consideration of three knowledge areas: technological, pedagogical, and content-based knowledge. To achieve TPACK one must find balance in all three, finding the point at which they intersect to fully take advantage and create a deep understanding within the students.
The video below discusses this model in full depth.
Distance Learning: 6 UDL Best Practices for Online Learning
by Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann
This article highlights six key rules for online learning with the Universal Design method in mind. Especially now, given COVID, education relies heavily on online platforming, a methodology that could maintain its presence even after the end of the pandemic. To learn more about the six key concepts, you can visit the site, and learn more about online learning, and what it means to value your students as teachers.
So What?
I found this article to be extremely timely, as well as very heartfelt, in a sense. Instead of talking about ways to ensure classroom success, this article speaks more to the success of the individual student, which is a prime motivator for UDL. Technology provides such an adaptable format for people to take control of their classroom and customize it to what their students need and see fit. This means trusting your students more with their own education, which I also believe to just be one of the more primary goals of UDL. It teaches kids to be their own advocates and stand up for what they need to get the best learning experience possible.
UDL Guidelines with Cast.org
This website is a highly interactive platforming for deep diving into Universal design, and breaking up its most valuable components into easy to manage sections. It also includes many clickable features which will take you to subpages, and allows for a read aloud feature.
Accessibility
This video discusses how to consider making your technology accessible for everyone, including the ideology and process for properly ensuring that your platform is user friendly for all users. While it may not speak directly to education, it's important to consider accommodations and disabilities that may be present in your classroom, requiring a full understanding of your chosen platform.
TPACK v. SAMR
SAMR stands for Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition, and discusses the involvement of technology in the classroom, as well as grading its usefulness and function in varying lessons.
As mentioned above, the TPACK method provides teachers with a basis in which all three parts of knowledge are valued and carefully layered together with a lot of consideration. The SAMR method, however, presents itself in a more linear way. While SAMR isn't inherently linear (an educator can choose to begin at any point) it appears to heavily value technology while TPACK allows for a discussion of all three.
This video discusses the difference between TPACK and SAMR, as seen by two specialists in the education field.
SAMR and Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's taxonomy is a well-established, recognized tool for lesson design. This page discusses the relationship between the two, and how the four different fields of SAMR align with Bloom's hierarchy. Higher level thinking comes from the higher levels of SAMR, including redefinition and augmentation, in which technology allows for the creation of new tasks, as well as functionally improving the classroom and its lesson. In addition to its own discussion, the page also provides numerous other resources create dby other educators and specialists, presenting multiple different opinions, views, and explanations of SAMR.
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