In this day and age technology is helping us do things that we never thought possible.

The use of the iPad in schools and for other forms of education, even for babies is known throughout the world – and now with the help of Ed Summers the blind will be part of this movement in education.

Summers, who at a young age lost his eyesight, has put together a course that can help keen educators familiarize themselves with the iPad, and in doing so learn how they can help visually impaired students benefit from the iPad as a learning tool.

How, you ask? While blind students may not have eyesight, their understanding of their own body is typically highly developed – Summers has taken advantage of the keen muscle memory of visually impaired students to exploit hand gestures as a teaching method.

Summers and his team have trained more than 200 teachers and written several manuals meant to enhance their skills. He remarked on how the iPad lets students perform tasks more easily or that were otherwise impossible, like emailing homework to a teacher.

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[Source: Bloomberg]