EDLD+5364+Week+2+Assignment+Reflection

This week's readings and assignment brought together and indepth and profound understanding of "Why Technology" and its tremendous benefits to the present day learner. As evidenced in a recent documentary, we have failed our learners with their diverse needs. As we look to incorporate technology in education, we can rest assured that this approach will guarantee better learning for all students. I believe that Rose and Meyers reading best help me understand the impact on learning that technology has. Because the demand of high standards on one side and diverse needs in our students on the other, we are forced to adapt educational reform of the UDL which marries all initiatives. Because it capitalizes on the use of multi-sensory learning and multiple brain intelligence, it suggests that we adapt a model of constructivist and serve as guides and facilitators to our students' learning. I like the idea of thinking of them as being on a mission or quest to problem solve and navigate through the information highway themselves to produce a product that shows us understand is own through application, analysis, and synthesis of knowledge. Technology lends itself to the many faceted learner through opportunities not afforded to them through the traditional "print" forms of learning that we were accustomed to. Rose and Meyer sum of the benefits of the UDL with the following quote, "All these approaches represent aspects of a model where learners actively construct meaning and teachers participate and support learning rather than impart knowledge." (Rose and Meyer, 2002) This is the look, sound, and feel of the 21st century classroom, Multisensory Learner Centered Technology.

Rose, D., & Meyer, A. (2002). //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning//. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Available online at the Center for Applied Special Technology web site, http://www.cast.org/teachingeverystudent/ideas/tes/