Cost $2,275

You Will Learn about the Latest Research on Individual Differences

This Institute focuses on teaching to individual differences through Universal Design for Learning. Most theories of learning and development treat individual differences as noise. In this workshop, we will consider individual differences as fundamental to understanding both the science of learning and the "art" of teaching. The workshop will address learning and teaching from two perspectives. First, you will learn about individual differences from the perspective of recent affective and cognitive neuroscience- what are the major sources of variability and dynamic instabilities in learning. Second, you will learn how educators can optimally respond to those differences, emphasizing recent advances in learning technologies and Universal Design for Learning.
The Institute is a small hands-on program limited to 35 participants.

In order to participate fully in the Institute, it is highly recommended that participants bring a laptop, smartphone, iPad, tablet computer, or other portable device that can access the internet.

Learning Objectives

The sources of learning-related diversity in the brain

The power of modern technology to meet the challenge of that diversity

The basic principles and practices of Universal Design for Learning, a new field that takes advantage of modern cognitive neuroscience and 21st century technologies

Understanding the brain's ability to transform sensation and perception into useable knowledge: recognition networks

Understanding the sources of variability: ability and disability in constructing useable knowledge

Meeting the challenge: guidelines and technologies for reaching every student through multiple means of representation

Understanding the brain's ability to plan, organize, and initiate purposeful actions and skills: strategic networks

Understanding the range of variability: ability and disability in executive functions, strategic skills, and motor action

Understanding the brain's ability to monitor the internal and external environment to set priorities and motivate learning and behavior: affective networks

Understanding the range of variability: ability and disability in affect and emotion

Meeting the challenge: guidelines and technologies for reaching every student through multiple means of engagement

The Summer Institute is for

K-12 teachers and administrators

Educational technology coordinators and developers

Curriculum developers and instructional designers

Education professors

College professors

Professional Development Credit

This program provides a total of 22 hours toward professional development credit for various professionals. For types of credit offered, call Learning ghj_amp the Brain Conference at 781-449-4010 ext. 101. Note: credits are not provided through Harvard University.

David H. Rose, EdD

Dr. David Rose is Founder and Chief Education Officer of CAST (Center for Applied Special Technology). He is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning. In 1984, Dr. Rose co-founded CAST, a not-for-profit research and development organization whose mission is to improve education, for all learners, through innovative uses of modern multimedia technology and contemporary research in the cognitive neurosciences. That work has grown into a new field called Universal Design for Learning which now influences educational policy and practice throughout the United States and beyond. Dr. Rose also teaches at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education where he has been on the faculty for more than 25 years.

As a researcher, Dr. Rose is the Principal Investigator on a number of U.S. Department of Education and National Science Foundation grants, and is currently the principal investigator of two national centers created to develop and implement the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS).

He is also the co-author or editor with Anne Meyer of the books Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning (ASCD, 2002); Learning to Read in the Computer Age (Brookline, 1998); A Practical Reader in Universal Design for Learning (Harvard Education Press, 2006), and (with Anne Meyer and Chuck Hitchcock) The Universally Designed Classroom: Accessible Curriculum and Digital Technologies (Harvard Education Press, 2005). In addition he is the author of numerous journal articles and academic book chapters.

Dr. Rose also leads or participates in many of CAST's technology and media development projects that have resulted in programs that are both award-winning and commercially successful including: Literary Place (Scholastic); Wiggleworks (Scholastic); Thinking Reader (Tom Snyder/Scholastic); CAST's Bobby (now distributed by IBM); AMP Reading System (Pearson).

With his CAST colleagues, he has won numerous awards, including the Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Innovation in Education and Academia (Laureate, 1993; Finalist, 1999), Tech Museum of Innovation Award (2002), LD Access Foundation Innovation Award (1999), and the EdNET HERO Award (2005). In 2004, the George Lucas Educational Foundation's Edutopia magazine named him one of education's "Daring Dozen."

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You Will Learn about the Latest Research on Individual Differences

Learning Objectives

The Summer Institute is for

Professional Development Credit

David H. Rose, EdD