CHAT TSBVI Tech Tea Time: Using AI to Help Students with VI and other Complex Needs 4/3/25 Jeannie Worden to Everyone: It helps me and my students listen to text and speech to text. I have used an ADHD tool to help my student break down a task. Alli Hintz to Everyone: You can use your creativity to make something new for a student. I haven't used it yet personally, but went to another webinar about it. Cathryn King to Everyone: it's ability to generate examples that can spark additional ideas Roxanne Ayres to Everyone: The ability to make lesson plans easier. Ashley Norment to Everyone: I like that I am able to save some time on quick templates and outlines. Donna Gonzaski to Everyone: lesson planning Joseph Harrison to Everyone: A good learning tool if used the right way. A little scary if it’s not. Karley Shanks to Everyone: it makes our jobs easier when needing to get information to students in braille (ex: like Subway menu so we can braille for students to read) linda brown to Everyone: Tool- help answer question, provides describles. make the job easier Stephanie Vallecillos to Everyone: I personally have not used it yet either, but it’s a way to be creative and use as a resource Donna Gonzaski to Everyone: students not writing their own papers Roxanne Ayres to Everyone: Accuracy of information Karley Shanks to Everyone: Students will become too dependent on it and be able to think for themselves Wendy Unwin-Watson to Everyone: accuracy of info and students not really doing the work Alli Hintz to Everyone: Yes, accuracy, especially if used to help write FVLMAs. linda brown to Everyone: Not all the information, is correct! Jeannie Worden to Everyone: That the student does not always get accurate information from their prompt and don't have the skills to check for accuracy Cathryn King to Everyone: becoming overly dependent upon it and not using problem solving skills or creativity Joseph Harrison to Everyone: There’s a real danger that AI is based upon other Stephanie Vallecillos to Everyone: A concern is that some people may rely on AI too much Jeannie Worden to Everyone: Google Read and Write, Envision AI Karley Shanks to Everyone: Supersense Wendy Unwin-Watson to Everyone: Google RW, ChromeVox, Seein AI, Joseph Harrison to Everyone: Text to Speech on Chromebooks Donna Gonzaski to Everyone: text to speech Roxanne Ayres to Everyone: Freedom Scientific’s FSCompanion AI for Jaws Adele Smolansky to Host and panelists: Sign up for a free AI-Learners trial: https://ai-learners.com/signup/classroom Email me with questions: adele@ai-learners.com Rosalba Wisner to Host and panelists: The site is requires payment to login Jill Cribbs to Everyone: Writing recommendation letters Ashley Norment to Everyone: drafting emails, combining multiple teacher schedules, Jeannie Worden to Everyone: Writing statements for when a student does or does not qualify Joseph Harrison to Everyone: ECC Self Determination along with You Tube Videos Stephanie Vallecillos to Everyone: I have used it to help build academic language when writing reports. Linda Jordan to Everyone: writing recommendation letter for grad school linda brown to Everyone: I ask it to create a picture image description. Adele Smolansky to Host and panelists: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edtech-insiders/id1592196859 Wendy Unwin-Watson to Everyone: Thank you for presenting and sharing with us. Jeannie Worden to Everyone: Great information. Thanks for all of the suggestions. I am excited to try AI-Learners. Stephanie Vallecillos to Host and panelists: Was there an opening code? I was in the waiting room Linda Jordan to Everyone: Thank you very much! TSBVI Outreach Media to Adele Smolansky(direct message): Thank you! Excellent presentation, especially with login trouble. Alli Hintz to Everyone: Thank you! linda brown to Everyone: thank you