Digital Technology

Use flexible, interactive formats for content with digital supports for access and comprehension.

Digital technology has provided many advances in terms of the organization, use, and exchange of information. It has also given us extremely powerful, flexible, and creative ways to generate, record, and manipulate text, images, and audio to construct and demonstrate knowledge.

Digital versions of text have been ground-breaking in removing barriers to the access of printed books with multiple options for display like text size and contrast, text-to-speech, language translation, and alternative textual descriptions of images and diagrams. Web 2.0 applications have made content interactive and support both social learning, and local knowledge construction and content generation through the use of collaborative tools like wikis, YouTube, gaming, and social networks. This screenshot is a UDL learning tool from CAST.


Screenshot of UDL Edition of Gettysburg Address
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UDL Editions by CAST- Gettysburg Address
Screenshot of UDL Edition of Gettysburg Address with digital supports, glossary, and text to speech toolbar.http://udleditions.cast.org/CONTENT,gettysburg_address,1.html