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What is Learner Variability? How can UDL help educators to plan for learner variability?
When watching the video Todd Rose opened talking about a myth known as “the average learner”, and how “when creating a classroom oftentimes the variability is ignored and the diversity of the classroom (Todd Rose). Todd Rose compared variability, to a shoe. To imagine a world where everyone had to wear the same size shoe. He asked how each person could reach their full potential as a sprinter if they all had to wear the same shoe. He pointed out that people don’t have a hard time recognizing that everyone has different shoe sizes, but they fail to realize that no one’s brain is the same. Just like no one’s brain is the same, no one learns in the same way All in all, learner variability is “seeing that learners are all three dimensional” (Nelson,p 31) And how the way a student learns depends on their relationship with the environment and the instructor. Therefore, UDL can help educators plan for variability because it helps them to create lessons that are friendlier to various types of learners. And learners who have varying relationships with the environment and instructor. By encompassing all aspects of UDL into a classroom the learning becomes far more beneficial. “Instructors can see that a learning environment can affect learning through the design and choice of flexile resources… while limiting barriers.”(p31). This to me is the best way to describe what variability means, to make all learners comfortable and reach their highest potential the way that works best for them.
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