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Stephen Downes

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"For it to be a truly fair and equitable system,' writes Luke Smith, "students with disabilities must have the option to study alongside their peers in the 'regular' classroom setting." I'm (mostly) inclinded to this view and find the list of supportive technologies included in this article to be useful. One question that has perplexed me over the years, however, is whether these technologies out to be a part of the same technologies others use (thus extending the classroom analogy) or whether we should support different technologies for learners of different abilities. Here, I'm (mostly) inclined to the latter.

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