Universal Design For Learning: Engaging Every Student On Monday, September 21, 2008, staff at Fairview Community School learned how to use technology to better include all learners in every lesson!

Why are we here? Fairview staff applied for and received a SET-BC grant for technology including: SMARTBoards, Teacher & Student Laptops Software Training and more.

What is UDL UDL = Universal Design for Learning. Supports that help struggling learners can also benefit ALL learners! Harvard Professor and UDL co-founder Dr. David Rose will be the keynote speaker for a showcase of Universal Design for Learning in Burnaby in October. Fairview Home About FairviewCalendarCommunity PAC SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICES LibrarySD68Newsletters Staff & Class Websites School Support Services Student Links

What are our ideas for using technology? “I want to take the school’s digital camera on our field trips and let the kids visually and verbally document their learning and then create a PowerPoint presentation.”- Mrs. Rogerson

What are we learning? The Special Education Technology-BC website offers great support SMARTBoards support visual learners PowerPoint presentations are easy to create! Click on the picture to go to SET-BC

Lunchtime! Yum! We enjoyed healthy salads while discussing how excited modern students, having grown up using technology, will be now that they are able to use it to learn in a more interactive way.

Learning about the SMARTBoard The SMART Board is an interactive whiteboard! Students and teachers can use it to display text, videos, and sound as well as write and erase on it! It is used in over 700,000 classrooms! Click on picture to go to SMART Tech’s Website.

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