Jamie Castle South Eastern Oklahoma State University Professor Jayanna Greenwood Nov. 12th, 2025 Week 5 Blog EDUC 5313 1) Select one article from those linked below regarding Universal Design for Learning and provide a summary of the article and discuss connections to the lesson you are developing. 2) Visit the CAST Universal Design for Learning website and use resources there to identify strategies that you could integrate into the lesson you are developing. Discuss at least two strategies that you could meaningfully integrate into the lesson you are developing. 3) Reflect upon the guidance provided in the 2024 NETP regarding the integration of UDL strategies to address the Digital Use Divide (week 2 reading assignment). The article “Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to Design Standard-Based Lessons” (Rao & Meo, 2016) described how learners have diverse abilities and how the UDL helps instructors design lessons to reach more students. The article exp...
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Week 4 Blog – Exploring Magic School AI Figure 1 Screenshot of the PHET Equality Explorer simulation ( University of Colorado Boulder , n.d.). Part 1 & 2 I gave Magic School AI my standard, 7.A.1.1: Identify a relationship between two varying quantities, x and y, as proportional if it can be expressed in the form y/x = k or y = kx; distinguish proportional relationships from non-proportional relationships (Oklahoma State Department of Education, 2023). I asked it to create a lesson using the PHET Equation Simulator while connecting to the ISTE Standards for Students and Kolb’s Triple E Framework. The AI system produced a clear outline describing what students and teachers should do. It attempted to include rigor but, like many AI-generated lessons, remained vague. The content aligned with the standard but lacked specific examples. Detailed step-by-step instructions and example problems would enhance this lesson plan and make it more practical for classroom use. The Magic School AI ...