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This weeks readings and video really seemed to me to rehash some old ideas most of us in the profession are already doing just in another forum. The idea that kids learn differently was taught 15 years ago when I was in college and is still taught today. So to think that different software works better for so kids than others to me did not seem so evolutionary. I think we, as teachers and coaches, always look to see what is working with each class. I have drills that have worked better in some years than others and I jhave tried new ideas to see if they work better to help kids perform better at the tasks I have asked. To say that UDL is different and new is a stretch. Maybe like saying McDonald's invented the hamburger.

I think the UDL builders though are extremely helpful. It helps focus a lesson and gives the ability to a teacher to thin kof different ways to use technology on lessons they have used for years. A more better mousetrap. Teachers must constantly change with the students, or clients, they work for and with. UDL is a helpful tool to bring previous knowledge and use it to build different, and sometimes better, lessons for kids. Again, this is ultimately who wwe are working for in the end run. I constantly go the clinics, conventions, web pages, etc. to learn more about different ways people teach different ideas in football. Someone is always thinking of a better way to teach the same ideas. We have started using technology a ton as coaches to get our information across to kids in a variety of ways. From film, to scouting reports, to physically practicing these ideas and skills, coaches take every idea they can to teach what kids need to know to perform better in their "tests."