Reply to JY’s Topic 5

Here’s the original post of JY’s:

Hi JY,

I really like your clear and structured post for this week’s topic. I also appreciate your thoughts on the UDL, UID and UBD. I also agree about your thoughts that suggests public learning materials should provide access to learning contents for not only general students but also students with special needs. In my post for this week, I also mentioned that it is important for learning contents to think about giving access to students with obstacles in learning, such as hearing loss or visual impairments. Everyone deserves equal opportunities to learn and it shouldn’t be stopped by their certain physical limits.

I also think your idea that states “Each student chooses their own unique path of learning without being forced to do something they don’t like to do.” is interesting. I think this idea is a student centered idea that would be great for individual learning and development. However, I would like to provide a thought on this: Do you think this kind of idea would be easy to put into practice? Especially for schools with limited resources on teachers and/or teaching resources? Although it would be ideal that every student could learn according to their own pace and preferences, I think it might be a way that would require special attention from the teachers’ side. Do you have any suggestions on how to put this kind of thinking in use, so that most students could get treated according to their individual pace and preference on study?

Zheqi Ren