We need a reformation in education, now with the arrival of technology, education should no longer exclusive.

By Davis Graham, MHMi

Recently I was reading, The Dance of Hope, thanks to Bookshare.org and Apple:

”Knowledge is love and light and vision."-Helen Keller
When I read this quote today with my text to speech software on my iPhone I knew exactly what she was talking about. You can gain much knowledge from your surroundings but when you start reading or receiving knowledge from someone else it truly is an experience of love light and vision.

I think Helen Keller and all with some disability feel an inequality to the access of knowledge until a bridge occurs. For Helen Keller, it was her friend Ann Sullivan who was the bridge. For me as a dyslexic the bridge to knowledge is technology. I don’t need to be re-mediated or anything else I just need access, and text to speech (TTS) and speech to text (STT) of which is my bridge or my Ann Sullivan.

 We need to ponder the thought of establishing bridges with technology for those who are denied access to knowledge because it’s encased in the confines of the printed word.