The Power of Digital Technology in Education: Designing for Individual Preferences.

🌍 Participants from different countries join the workshop.

👥 Focus on building a sense of community and collaboration.

💻 Introduction to digital tools for teaching and learning.

📚 Learners have diverse preferences for how they learn and share knowledge.

🎯 Teachers need to consider learner variability when designing learning experiences.

💡 Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides a framework for addressing learner variability through multiple means of action, expression, and engagement.

🔑 Teachers can use digital technology to overcome learning challenges and empower students.

🌟 Universal design for learning provides options and flexibility to meet the unique needs of students.

💡 Technology tools can help special needs students in various ways, such as using voice-to-text features for writing.

📚 Creating flexible goals and allowing students to choose their subjects increases engagement and allows them to make an impact in areas they care about.

🔎 Identifying and addressing learning barriers in the areas of academics, executive function, and learning behaviors improves students' ability to achieve their goals.

🧩 Challenges in education include unlearning personal biases and promoting community engagement to overcome individualistic tendencies.

📚 Teachers face numerous challenges in addressing the diverse needs of learners, including dyslexic students and those with learning disorders.

🌎 Creating awareness and training teachers to effectively educate unique students is vital to ensure they are not left behind.

💻 Utilizing digital tools such as Jamboard, Remind, and Google Classroom can help address academic challenges and transform pedagogy.

💡 The use of digital tools in education can aid in executive function and time management, providing reminders and notifications for students and parents.

🔍 Tools like Zoom polls and Mentimeter can engage students by generating curiosity and hooking their attention, while also providing quick feedback on lessons.

🌟 Other popular tools that educators can use to address academic, executive, and behavioral challenges include Google Keep, Padlet, and Kahoot.

📚 The course focuses on understanding learner engagement and different typologies of digital tools to enhance it.

🌐 The course also emphasizes navigating the web responsibly, understanding digital citizenship, and using online communities effectively.

📝 Universal design for learning is discussed, along with how to use digital tools purposefully to meet learning goals.

🌍 The course explores policy-level shifts in education and new age pedagogies, including design-based learning and inquiry-based learning.