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Ensuring Technology Integration in the Classroom Leads to Increased Accessibility: Using UDL as a Lens
Abstract
Technology has been a revolutionary mean to offer students with disabilities the affordances they require to be able to access the mainstream classroom. It has been a groundbreaking tool to provide accommodations. While acknowledging the key role that assistive technology has played thus far, this chapter suggests the time has come to take a hard look at exactly how assistive technology has been integrated. Three concerns are examined: (1) assistive technology can be so specialized, non-user-friendly, and expensive that it stigmatizes students with disabilities; (2) while technology is often available in the classroom, it generally remains integrated very clumsily and fails to optimally serve pedagogy; (3) the notion of assistive technology may now be possibly obsolete since most operation systems include a wide array of accessibility tools. It is hence time to rethink our use of technology in the classroom with students with disabilities, and the chapter suggests that Universal Design for Learning is a particularly pertinent framework to shift educators' practices and beliefs.
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