"As the use of emerging technologies in the classroom increases, schools at all levels must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of the technology for all students, including students with disabilities," wrote Russlynn Ali, assistant secretary for civil rights for the Department of Education.
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Schools need to "think about on the front end whether the device is fully accessible,"
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"If it's used to further the achievement gap and further the opportunity gap...we should prevent that on the front end."
Tech Turns Air Into a Multi-Touch Screen : Discovery News - 1 views
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Researchers created a special empty frame with highly responsive multi-touch capacity.
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Touch-sensitive frames have enabled surfaces to become interactive for years, but their size and responsiveness tend to be limited.
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The 28-inch ZeroTouch frame with scalloped edges can detect whatever moves around inside it. Fingertips, hands, arms, and even inanimate objects pass through an invisible two-dimensional optical web that tracks them. Put ZeroTouch on a computer screen and it turns into an interactive surface that can be manipulated with a stylus.
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Kathleen McClaskey's new blog is open discussion and sharing of how mobile apps can be used to create digital learning environments using the UDL framework