The Consortium for School Networking and the nonprofit CAST this week released a report on practical steps schools and tech developers can take to ensure new AI tools are accessible to all students.
September 17, 2024 •
News Staff
With the power to create personalized content, AI has the potential to substantially improve accessibility in education, especially for students with disabilities. But to unleash this potential, AI developers must make accessibility a priority from the start.
That was the recommendation of a report this week, AI and Accessibility in Education, commissioned by the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and CAST, a nonprofit organization that created the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) teaching approach.
The 35-page document was authored by Fernanda Pérez Perez, a Fulbright scholar and graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studies education policy and planning. Perez received a CoSN fellowship to develop the report.
Among its key findings is that AI can help tailor educational content and classroom communication to meet the [...]