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I searched for linear equations on YouTube and this is the link for the video I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft2_QtXAnh8.

This video requires interaction from students because it is a direct instructional video. When students open this video, they should take notes along with it, then they can simultaneously understand the content of the lesson. If there is any point that they cannot understand, they can go back to the video and watch it again. This video also requires students to think about this topic to achieve one example to more. I strongly suggest students can do some practice after watching this video since practice can help students consolidate their memories on these knowledge points. At the same time, this activity can help students to self-reflection and find out which part is not fully grasped. Throughout the online resources, students can report their feedback on Discord or Mattermost, then I can clearly know the students’ self-learning abilities. Moreover, they can go to Brightspace to take quizzes and check their understanding. This activity does not cause much work because I prepared this before I gave the link to students, and this video is very detailed and easy to understand. I believe my students can handle it and actually, I like to prepare more videos and practices to help students move to the next step. Just in case some of these students find this too easy and want to start the next level directly. And I put the link of the e-book to students so that they can study with their own processing. I think this is manageable and worthwhile because I want my students can fully understand. Mathematics is one of the boring subjects in many students’ eyes, I want to use my way to let students enjoy solving functions and understand the charm of mathematics.

This is the link that I comment on others: https://lingjiang1.opened.ca/interaction/

• How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?
• How can you adjust your planned learning activities to meet the needs of your learners if an unexpected event occurs? (for example, if a pandemic arises, and many students must now work from home – how will you ensure that they can still learn successfully? What training will they need, and how will you deliver it, knowing they must remain at home?) This is a common discussion thread right now, as many schools and universities have made the switch to teaching online.

In our interactive learning resources, we teach from easy to hard. First, we review what they have learned before. Then, we teach the functions step by step, so that we will easily find out which students find problems in a certain step and explain them immediately. In addition, we will have quizzes and small projects to let students solve problems, these can increase their impression and understanding of functions.

If there is an unexpected event happens, we can ensure that students are successful in their studies by teaching the class on Zoom, with a split screen to show the PowerPoint to the students. Students can follow the PowerPoint to study. We will have a course outline to share our learning plan with students before the class starts, so they will know when we are going to learn something. Even if they miss some of the details, they will still be able to catch up on our progress according to this outline. If students are unable to attend our classes, or if they are having trouble keeping up with the pace during our classes, we can provide them with recorded videos for them to watch repeatedly.

Moreover, we will use resources on the Internet, such as an online graphing calculator to help students have an intuitive concept of graphing functions. We are going to use Desmos as a part of our learning. They also can use this website as a tool to verify whether their answer is correct or not. At the same time, we can provide some resource links to students so they to learn additional knowledge by themselves. We can provide students with e-books that contain all the knowledge points. But if some students feel that the book is too many words and don’t like to read it, we can attach some YouTube videos for students to learn the knowledge.

This is my groupmate’s link that you may want to learn more about inclusive learning design, and I also left a comment. https://lingjiang1.opened.ca/inclusive-design/