AI is a powerful tool to help students with special needs. Please share any additional ways you have been able to use AI to help students with special needs. This is a special area that we should really work on to help all of academia.
Excellent topic that needs more attention for sure! Wondering if a transcript is available from the practice interview? AI tools sometimes seem siloed, meaning you need to go to different AI's to get the fullest accessibility possible. That's where learning designers can be instrumental for both instructors, faculty and students. Offices of Accessibility might not even be aware of the AI tools that are incredibly powerful!. TY!!! Encore! Additionally, Google Glass, - which I was one of the first beta explorers did this back in 2015 , almost a decade NOW! Smart glasses are fantastic!
Hi Rox, yes for sure. This is an important topic that really needs much more exposure. It is one of those things that most faculty don't really think about until it directly affects them. The thing is, most classes usually have at least one student with a learning disability/issue, but they typically don't want to let anyone know. My hope is that this video will help raise awareness and at least help faculty address the issue when it arrives in the classroom. Wow, it is so cool that you were a beta tester for Google Glass. They were ahead of their time and should re-release it now that society is ready for it. It would be a great tool to help students with special needs and would give Raybans a run for their money. I also agree that instructional designers play a huge role in all of this. They are a key aspect in making a course so much better.
Oh, and I also wanted to say that yes, when you use voice chat on ChatGPT, it is also transcribing your audio inputs so that, in the end, you will have a transcript.
@@sovorel-EDU The transcript is extremely important for a couple of reasons. First, students might benefit from having an option to print it or look at it online like in a Google Doc, to make digital or physical physical notes. The AI accessibility that is available supports ULD which make it incredibly valuable as it seems to make things quicker and personalized much easier than ever before. One more thing when creating images, speaking in accessibility terms, do you know if the AI imager generators have an option for including or generating image tags which is necessary for accessibility (low vision, blind etc.),and also the text documents must be in the .srt file format for CC accessibility. Those are critical AI features necessary for authenticating media accessibility as far as I know this hasn't changed. What is fantastic is the speed of AI and it would be so beneficial for accessibility to have these features not paid for but available for everyone. When I worked at the university it was time intensive to do what I mentioned above for each image and document. Seems like AI might be able to do this in seconds! That would be impressive!
@@sovorel-EDU Often students need to disclose disability in order to receive services. This is sticky for sure. Having accessibility UDL mindset has been slow to adopt for sure. AI will hopefully been seen as advantageous to the Depts. of Offices of Accessibility if they have the admin support that deems it necessary and not option.
@@roxannr, Your thoughts and observations are excellent, as always, Rox. I usually use Microsoft's Image Creator. It doesn't create a description of the image that it generates, that should be an easy to make feature. The cool thing is, however, that one can now take any image into the free version of ChatGPT, upload it, and ask for a description of the image. I did that with the thumbnail for this video, and here is the description it gave me: "The image shows a classroom scene with a blackboard in the background that has "SPECIAL NEEDS" written in large letters at the top. There are two adults and a humanoid robot standing together. The robot, made of silver and black metallic parts with blue glowing eyes, is positioned between the two people. On the left, a woman with natural curly hair, dressed in a white lab coat, is sitting at a desk and smiling at the robot. On the right, a man in a blue suit and tie is standing, also smiling, as he gestures toward the robot. The text in the bottom-right corner reads, "AI to Assist Students with Special Needs." The blackboard behind them has various mathematical symbols, graphs, and equations drawn in chalk, suggesting an academic setting focused on education and technology."
AI is a powerful tool to help students with special needs. Please share any additional ways you have been able to use AI to help students with special needs. This is a special area that we should really work on to help all of academia.
Excellent topic that needs more attention for sure! Wondering if a transcript is available from the practice interview? AI tools sometimes seem siloed, meaning you need to go to different AI's to get the fullest accessibility possible. That's where learning designers can be instrumental for both instructors, faculty and students. Offices of Accessibility might not even be aware of the AI tools that are incredibly powerful!. TY!!! Encore! Additionally, Google Glass, - which I was one of the first beta explorers did this back in 2015 , almost a decade NOW! Smart glasses are fantastic!
Hi Rox, yes for sure. This is an important topic that really needs much more exposure. It is one of those things that most faculty don't really think about until it directly affects them. The thing is, most classes usually have at least one student with a learning disability/issue, but they typically don't want to let anyone know. My hope is that this video will help raise awareness and at least help faculty address the issue when it arrives in the classroom.
Wow, it is so cool that you were a beta tester for Google Glass. They were ahead of their time and should re-release it now that society is ready for it. It would be a great tool to help students with special needs and would give Raybans a run for their money. I also agree that instructional designers play a huge role in all of this. They are a key aspect in making a course so much better.
Oh, and I also wanted to say that yes, when you use voice chat on ChatGPT, it is also transcribing your audio inputs so that, in the end, you will have a transcript.
@@sovorel-EDU The transcript is extremely important for a couple of reasons. First, students might benefit from having an option to print it or look at it online like in a Google Doc, to make digital or physical physical notes. The AI accessibility that is available supports ULD which make it incredibly valuable as it seems to make things quicker and personalized much easier than ever before. One more thing when creating images, speaking in accessibility terms, do you know if the AI imager generators have an option for including or generating image tags which is necessary for accessibility (low vision, blind etc.),and also the text documents must be in the .srt file format for CC accessibility. Those are critical AI features necessary for authenticating media accessibility as far as I know this hasn't changed. What is fantastic is the speed of AI and it would be so beneficial for accessibility to have these features not paid for but available for everyone. When I worked at the university it was time intensive to do what I mentioned above for each image and document. Seems like AI might be able to do this in seconds! That would be impressive!
@@sovorel-EDU Often students need to disclose disability in order to receive services. This is sticky for sure. Having accessibility UDL mindset has been slow to adopt for sure. AI will hopefully been seen as advantageous to the Depts. of Offices of Accessibility if they have the admin support that deems it necessary and not option.
@@roxannr, Your thoughts and observations are excellent, as always, Rox. I usually use Microsoft's Image Creator. It doesn't create a description of the image that it generates, that should be an easy to make feature. The cool thing is, however, that one can now take any image into the free version of ChatGPT, upload it, and ask for a description of the image. I did that with the thumbnail for this video, and here is the description it gave me: "The image shows a classroom scene with a blackboard in the background that has "SPECIAL NEEDS" written in large letters at the top. There are two adults and a humanoid robot standing together. The robot, made of silver and black metallic parts with blue glowing eyes, is positioned between the two people. On the left, a woman with natural curly hair, dressed in a white lab coat, is sitting at a desk and smiling at the robot. On the right, a man in a blue suit and tie is standing, also smiling, as he gestures toward the robot. The text in the bottom-right corner reads, "AI to Assist Students with Special Needs." The blackboard behind them has various mathematical symbols, graphs, and equations drawn in chalk, suggesting an academic setting focused on education and technology."