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Steps Toward Creating a More Accessible and Inclusive College Classroom

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Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Avoid negative descriptions of disability (ex: suffers from a condition, confined/bound to a wheelchair). Jennifer E.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

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Colleges have long had offices designed to support students who have learning disabilities and to encourage broader accessibility in the classroom and beyond. They also addressed audience questions about how to get faculty motivated to adjust their courses to improve accessibility. Del Tufo: That's a great question.

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

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Over the past weeks, readers have asked us many questions about the impact of the coronavirus on education in many different areas, from admissions to advice for young children, from salaries to student privacy and whether school closures actually work. Tony Wan (March 16, 2020) General Questions Should schools close?

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Latest AI Announcements Mean Another Big Adjustment for Educators

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The software will automatically use your recording to make notes, flashcards and quiz questions,” she says in the promotional video. On a positive note, such tools could greatly assist students with learning disabilities. She describes opening up the company’s tool on her laptop during class and clicking a record button.

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‘Precision Education’ Hopes to Apply Big Data to Lift Diverse Student Groups

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It’s actually quite challenging as an instructor,” he says. It’s kind of like one of those questions like ‘Why is the sky blue?’ He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. When you go to actually answer it it gets complicated.”

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How Monolingual Teachers Can Support English Language Acquisition for Multilingual Learners

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Esther considered the question, sitting in a small room with Ms. Odette, the interpreter who was working with her to complete her learning profile—a tool that helped us learn about new students and tailor instruction to meet their needs. “What do you want your teacher to know about you?”

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Five Tips for Writing Academic Integrity Statements in the Age of AI 

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In a meta-analysis on the use of AI chatbots in education, Wu and Yu (2023) found that AI chatbots can significantly improve learning outcomes, specifically in the areas of learning performance, motivation, self-efficacy, interest, and perceived value of learning. Write your own GenAI policy to include in your syllabus.