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This week I have been reading and watching videos about the planning process for teaching with technology. I visited the CAST //Teaching Every Student// site numerous times to gather and process information, discover tools and generally immerse myself in concepts of the Universal Design for Learning. The e-book, //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning// by David Rose and Anne Meyer has been very helpful in describing how some teaching methods, materials and activities might be curriculum barriers for diverse learners, and it also provides alternatives to these barriers. After reading about the idea that people have multiple intelligences and learn in different ways (Gardner, 1993), I understand more clearly how necessary it is to have multiple methods to teach diverse learners and need to understand how some methods can actually be a barrier to students learning.

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. Chapter 6. Retrieved on March 11, 2012, from []

Gardner, H. (1993). Multiple intelligences: The theory in practice. New York: Basic Books.