UDL and New Technologies

The idea of Univeral Design of Learning (from herin referred to as UDL) in the podcast by David Rose was interesting to me though a bland podcast. I picked up mostly on the idea of UDL being about alternatives and options. I assistant teach in a gifted and talented classroom and am always trying to think of new ways to reach many of my students who already believe they have seen it all and understand it all. UDL is an idea that can help me have options to reach all of my students. David Rose pointed out how this information was presented in many ways, the book, podcast, etc, and I think about those options and ties to my students. The technologies today may seem overwhelming to teachers but can provide for students many more alternatives and options for them to be able to engage themselves and reach concepts that with fixed media they couldn' always get. The multiple intelligences of Howard Gardner alone brings to mind all of the different ways technology can engage all of our different students. It is up to teachers to be able to introduce and assess the value of these different technologies and present to students a UDL.