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Creating IEPs with GenAI while ensuring data privacy

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Protecting the data of students with disabilities is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, all students have a right to privacy, and their personal and sensitive information must be kept confidential to protect them from unwanted exposure of their Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and its potential misuse.

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Leveraging AI to help special education teachers

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includes an IEP generator that will draft an initial IEP given the child’s grade level, disabilities and strengths, needs, and behaviors. For both novice and veteran teachers, Poe.com provides access to a behavior intervention bot in real-time to help with questions that might arise with paperwork or strategies for student behavior.

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Crunch the numbers—The latest and greatest data on edtech

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The study utilizes anonymized data from over 30,000 confidential sessions teens held on the AI-powered app during the 2023-24 school year. million US students — 15% of all students — have disabilities that qualify them for Individualized Education Plans (IEPs). More than 78% reported difficulty in hiring special education staff.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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Among the complaints are high rates of false positives , require students to have web cameras that not every student can afford, create challenges for students with disabilities and can even be discriminatory. They uploaded their videos to YouTube, and now they want to call them confidential, but that’s not how YouTube works,” he says.

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AI Guidelines for K-12 Aim to Bring Order to the ‘Wild West’

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That's really been kind of our mode of operation: How do we just enable exploration and not disable access,” he says, “or have people say, ‘It's the latest trend, and it'll go away.’” A lot of times, it’s the Wild West in terms of access to tools.

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eBOARDsolutions Announces Major Update to Simbli Policy Module

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With Simbli, all of their manuals are easily searchable and 100% compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.”. Access archived versions of policies. In addition, the updates significantly improve both the functionality of the module, as well as the overall user experience.

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? If you have any questions—or see something that should be updated—please let me know on Twitter @tonywan or tony@edsurge.com. Stay safe, sane and sanitary, everyone.

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