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UDL in Math

What is it and why will it empower my students?

https://goo.gl/egr64h

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I am a certified Google Education Trainer and the creator of the g(Math) Add-on for Docs, Sheets, and Forms. It has recently passed 12 million total users!

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Prior to joining Texthelp as the EquatIO Product Manager (aka the ‘STEM Texthelper’), I taught secondary math all over the world for over 15 years and loved to adapt the fail-forward mentality and push the bounds of technology integration in the math classroom.

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Follow me on Twitter:

@jmacattak

Tweet this session:

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

15 years ago people did not implement UDL widely

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#UDL2017

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I want to empower students to communicate their thought process in the method they prefer!

https://goo.gl/vn4hhP

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Universal Design for Learning is just good teaching.

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Doesn’t every teacher just want to hear their students communicate their thought process?!

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Digital Medium of Instruction

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Google Classroom

  • Great way to share assignments with students
  • The “glue” for my classroom.
  • See Alice Keeler for amazing ways to use Google Classroom!

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Google Docs

  • Students familiar with format
  • Great way to integrate with collaboration & comments
  • Use Voice Notes with Read&Write
  • Accessible math notation with Read&Write and EquatIO
  • EquatIO demo

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Google Forms

  • Quick Assessment
  • Use EquatIO to create math in both questions and responses!
  • Easily use data in spreadsheets
  • Use Quizzes
  • Flubaroo for auto-grading (can even give a range for short answers!)

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Google Slides

  • Not constrained to document format (align however I like)
  • Additional helpful tools (Scribble tool)
  • Students can be creative in their responses (insert Video from Youtube)
  • Example Lesson

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we wanted to build something that would feel like

UDL was built in from the start...

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#UDL2017

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Full G Suite integration: Docs, Forms, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings!

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Google Classroom integration .

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EquatIO is free & will be forever.

We are constantly developing EquatIO with monthly releases and continually adding more premium features. Wait until you see our back to school update!

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Premium features

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Google Forms, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings integration

Math & chemistry prediction

Unlimited Handwriting recognition

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Desmos

  • Amazing Graphing Calculator
  • Activity Builder is awesome
  • New (Beta) Desmos Geometry

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Other Apps

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Disseminate Info

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John McGowan is a certified Google Education Trainer and the creator of the g(Math) Add-on for Docs, Sheets, and Forms.

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Prior to joining Texthelp as the EquatIO Product Manager (aka the ‘STEM Texthelper’), John taught secondary math for over 15 years and loved to adapt the fail-forward mentality and push the bounds of technology integration in the math classroom.

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Follow him on Twitter: @jmacattak

j.mcgowan@texthelp.com

Thanks for your time and please let me know if you have any questions & feature requests!