{"id":8363,"date":"2021-06-02T16:16:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T04:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kamiapp.com\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:05:06","slug":"access-engage-and-express-with-kami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.kamiapp.com\/blog\/access-engage-and-express-with-kami\/","title":{"rendered":"Access, Engage, and Express with Kami!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What a year it has been! School buildings shut down amid a global pandemic, which forced educators to quickly pivot to flexible learning environments, curriculum, materials, and assessments. Online learning became a reality for schools across the globe. The inequities of providing meaningful access to the internet, to technology, to curriculum shone a necessary light onto the inequities of the world- and compelled us all to collectively work together to remove these barriers. There is still plenty of work to be done in this area.\u00a0<\/p>

One of my favorite ways to accomplish these ambitious goals is to leverage Universal Design for Learning.\u00a0<\/p>

What is UDL?<\/h5>

Universal Design for Learning is a \u201cframework to improve and optimize learning for all people based on scientific insights into how we learn\u201d (CAST, 2021).\u00a0 The UDL Guidelines<\/a> are used to provide options, choices, and flexibility throughout the educational process. While Universal Design for Learning can be used to remove barriers to learning for individuals with disabilities, it also has important intersections with removing barriers to learning related to race, gender, religion, and cultural variances. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the inclusive technology supports found within Kami.\u00a0<\/p>

\u00a0The use of Kami as part of the UDL ecosystem serves to:\u00a0<\/p>