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Listen on Soundcloud Dr. Jim Patton from the Department of Special Education tells us how a Universal Design for Learning approach leads him to leverage teaching strategies that can accommodate the special needs of some students, but these same strategies can be useful to other learners.  Using specific examples taken from his large-format Applied Learning and Development course, Dr. Patton groups these techniques into three categories – access, expression, and engagement.(Part 2 of 2) Learn More Dr. Patton’s faculty webpage Meyer, A., Rose, D.H., & Gordon, D. (2014). Universal design for learning: Theory and Practice. Wakefield, MA: CAST Professional Publishing. What is Universal Design? Myths & Facts about UDL (from Brookes Publishing). Transcript Karen French: Today we return for the second half of my conversation with Dr. Jim Patton. I’m Karen French and this is Learning From Texas Education Innovators. ♪ (music) ♪ Jim Patton: In terms of engagement, let me just say some things… Read More »Universal Design for Learning: Needed by Some, but Beneficial to All (2 of 2)

Listen on Soundcloud Dr. Jim Patton from the Department of Special Education tells us how a Universal Design for Learning approach leads him to leverage teaching strategies that can accommodate the special needs of some students, but these same strategies can be useful to other learners.  Using specific examples taken from his large-format Applied Learning and Development course, Dr. Patton  groups these techniques into three categories – access, expression, and engagement.(Part 1 of 2) Learn More Dr. Patton’s faculty webpage Meyer, A., Rose, D.H., & Gordon, D. (2014). Universal design for learning: Theory and Practice. Wakefield, MA: CAST Professional Publishing. What is Universal Design? Myths & Facts about UDL (from Brookes Publishing) Transcript Karen French: Welcome back to “Learning from Texas Education Innovators”. I’m Dr.Karen French. This week’s guest was Dr. Jim Patton he is from the Department of Special Education. Our conversation about Universal Design for Learning was such a good conversation and it lasted… Read More »Universal Design for Learning: Needed by Some, but Beneficial to All (1 of 2)

Listen on Soundcloud In our conversation with Dr. Sarah Kate Bearman, the assistant professor and child clinical psychologist in the Department of Educational Psychology talks with Dr. Rui Zeng about child psychopathology and how the study of this topic can be used to further people’s understanding of emotional and behavioral problems in children. Specifically, she discusses how she uses her course Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Children and Adolescents to help people understand the typical development of children’s mental health problems and ways to protect children from developing such problems. Through student-led cases, first account interviews, pop-culture moments, and interactive games, etc. her students leave her course with not only better knowledge about these disorders but different approaches to treatment that go beyond medication. Learn More Sarah Kate’s faculty pageMore about Sarah Kate’s research: LEAP Lab page Transcript Rui Zeng: Welcome to the podcast series, “Learning from the Texas Education Innovators”. This… Read More »Improving Our Understanding of Child Psychopathology

Listen on Soundcloud In our visit with Dr Diane Schallert, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, we hear the story of the introduction of synchronous online chat to her courses in the mid 1990s. Her enthusiasm for learning is matched by her fascination for how people learn together both by talking out loud and through keyboards. Diane shares the important research she and her students have conducted into how typing changes the interactions in classrooms, allowing those students who may not have had an opportunity to speak up to gain a new voice. She includes tips for instructors – and others – who want to facilitate rich online conversations for learning. Be sure to listen until the end for a hopeful message about online politeness. Learn More Exploring Possible Selves Through Sharing Stories Online: Case Studies of Preservice Teachers in Bilingual Classrooms (2018) Rachel Gaines, Eunjeong Choi, Kyle Williams, J.… Read More »“Wow, That is So Fun!” Text-Based Classroom Discussion

Listen on Soundcloud (1 of 4) Our introductory conversation with Dr. Steve Kornguth, biochemist and translational medical researcher who teaches in the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education. He shares an insider’s view into the sense-making process through which physicians categorize, diagnose and treat illness. Using autoimmune disorders as a special focus, Dr. Kornguth presents… Read More »Turning the Biological System of Defense (The Immune System) into an Attack System: How Disequilibrium Creates Illness

Listen on Soundcloud (2 of 4) In our second conversation, Dr. Kornguth introduces paraneoplasia, a syndrome in which antibodies associated with a cancer cause a compromise in function in a non-related system. He uses an example of visual deficits experienced by some patients with early-stage small cell carcinoma of the lung to highlight the cost-benefit… Read More »Paraneoplasia as An Autoimmune Disease: Lessons Learned from Basic Research

Listen on Soundcloud (3 of 4) Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the post-mortem diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) are the focus of Dr. Kornguth’s current research. In our third podcast, he shares cutting edge research that suggests that CTE has an autoimmune component. Dr. Kornguth describes how a combination of repeated significant trauma to… Read More »Traumatic Brain Injury Leading to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy