As I hoped but did not expect, the impact of the pandemic crisis on #education has acted as a catalyst and accelerator for #edtech and #educationinnovation.
Education reformers like #TranscendEducation, #TheLearningAccelerator, #TurnAroundforChildren, #IThriveGames, #FacingHistoryandOurselves, #Understood and many others stepped up to the moment with new work this year.
In the entrepreneurial sector, the #LearnLaunchAccelerator reported that between 2020 and 2021, they saw the largest surge in edtech startups, ideas, and innovations than they had seen since their inception. As a result, they just launched #EdInno, a learning community designed to help the next generation of edtech innovators persist and build impactful businesses.
Let’s keep the momentum going and out of tragedy make real strides in #educationinnovation for all.
Applying Universal Design for Learning to design of fundraising materials
When you are designing organizational or fundraising materials, how do you make them accessible and effective for all of your constituents?
Our constituents have different ways of understanding, expressing, communicating, and engaging. Modern brain science has highlighted how individual variability in the three systems of the brain – the strategic network, the recognition network, and the affective network-- determine how we learn. In response, Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides design principles for responding to individual differences. Consider when designing materials:
The Why: provide multiple means of engagement— vary ways that you communicate goals, relevance, value, authenticity, choice, opportunities for reflection.
The What: provide multiple means of representing information – give users a choice of different forms ie: audio, visual, textual.
The How: Multiple means of action and expression—provide users with many ways to engage with your materials, vary how they respond and navigate, provide different ways for the user to communicate.
How do you currently apply these principles in your work?