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Having everyone in the classroom know they can have many accomplishes is important. Teachers have a lot of work cut out for them, from standardized testing to making everyone feel welcomed.  Multicultural education is significant in a teacher’s lesson. It should not matter what ethnicity someone is, that teacher has a job to educate them. Students are the future of America, how they learn will reflect on society. Technology is a great way to have a more diverse lesson. A teacher can use interactive websites to go to past events or current. The students will be more engaged with learning and multicultural education will be present.

            Universal design is usually everywhere. If you go to a store and you see a wheelchair ramp that is universally designed for everyone who is in a wheelchair. Set ups like that are at countless places. An important place to have universal design would be school. Yes schools usually have a ramp or doors that will open if you press the handicap button. Universal design needs to be in the classroom. A teacher needs to be aware of the situation of the student or students and make changes to her classroom accordingly.

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            Assistive technology can be just as life changing as universal design. For example, someone who cannot see well has audio with her lesson. Assistive technologies are tools that students with any disability can use and prosper with their education. A student still needs to be challenge and be able to critically think. Technology can sometimes get in the way of that. In Transforming Learning with new Technologies, they talk about a speech software that students with motor disabilities can speak and their words will show up on the screen. Someone who struggles with a motor disability would enjoy coming to school more with that type of software.

In conclusion, it should not matter what ethnicity you are, you are there to get an education to better yourself for your future goals. Teachers can set up a more diverse classroom and use technology to have a more multicultural education. A student with any disability should be able to get in and out of the classroom. Also assistive technology is important to any classroom with or without disabilities. Technology offers so much to everyone, might as well use it.

References:
Darby, A. (n.d.). Understanding Universal Design in the Classroom. Retrieved October 14, 2015, from http://www.nea.org/home/34693.htm

Lynch, E. (n.d.). The Call to Teach: Multicultural Education. Retrieved October 14, 2015, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-lynch-edd/the-call-to-teach-multicu_b_4568066.html

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

McBride, M. (2015, October 14). Ways to have Universal Design in your classroom - Tackk. Retrieved October 14, 2015, from https://tackk.com/082kxz

Understanding Assistive Technology: Simply Said. (n.d.). Retrieved October 14, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB9pKkZoJDc