Mark Coppin, NDSU Disability Services director, has written October’s principal leadership article for the webpage for the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

The article, “Future Technologies in Special Education,” includes sections titled Universal Design for Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality.

“It is an exciting time to be in education and especially in special education,” Coppin wrote. “Advances in today’s technologies provide us with amazing opportunities to deliver a curriculum that has multiple ways for students to be engaged, multiple ways materials can be presented and many ways they can express themselves. It also gives us ways to measure progress, make adjustments and personalize learning for our students.”

Coppin joined NDSU in August 2019. He previously was the director of assistive technologies at Anne Carlsen Center in Jamestown, North Dakota, for more than 31 years. He earned bachelor’s degrees in special education and speech communications at Minnesota State University Moorhead and his master’s degree in educational and instructional technology from Full Sail University.

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