UDL- universal design for learning and is a great way to respond to individual learner differences. These guide educational practices; they provide flexibility in ways information can be presented to increase demonstration of knowledge and skill while maintaining engagement. With UDL, all students are challenged, supported and have high achievement expectations. Using an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch with appropriate apps are perfect fit to universal design for learning.

Disruptive technology: new technology, such as the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, which unexpectedly displaces the customary technology. 

We tried Pic Collage to create mini-collages of things we like and then used Safari to make books.  Both apps have great potential in the classroom and will maintain high student engagement.  It can be used for: journaling, creating stories, biographies, social stories, making puzzles, map building/creating, cultural study for social studies, visual schedules, creating life cycles for science, categorizing and sorting, and building nets for 3-D solids.