Enhancing Education Through Emerging Technologies: Insights from DIAGRAM Reports
Explore the impact of emerging technologies on education, as highlighted in the DIAGRAM Report 2017. Topics include accessible coding, machine learning, and multimedia interactives. Discover how technology can enhance learning environments for students with disabilities and improve educational outcomes. Stay informed about the latest trends shaping the future of education.
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CSUN 2018 Assistive Technology Conference Session Highlights from Sonya Woods and Matt Farley
What is CSUN? California State University, Northridge, Center on Disabilities (CSUN) This year was the 33rd CSUN conference Attended by people from all over the world
Window on the near future...
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education First in a series of annual reports Issued by the DIAGRAM Center, an initiative of Benetech funded by U.S. Dept. of Ed Report covers six main topics, voted on by a committee from an initial list of 20 Every year the report will be updated with new topics
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 1: Accessible Coding in Education Challenges: Complicated dev environments, lots of block-level coding languages use drag and drop Takeaways: Computer science teachers need to incorporate accessible workflows, people with disabilities need to be consulted during the development of software environments
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 2: Machine Learning Challenges: Need reliable data sets to train machines, virtual assistants not always accessible Takeaways: Will be a game changer in education, can help with predicting disabilities and adapting learning environments, automated image descriptions, make sure does not lead to isolating or singling out some students
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 3: Multimedia Interactives Challenges: Both input and output need to be accessible, both content and device need to be accessible Takeaways: Multimedia helps students engage through multiple senses, providing more than one type of experience is key.
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 4: Personalized Learning Challenges: Need reliable ways to control type and display of content, current lack of availability of different content types Takeaways: Goes hand in hand with having a skilled educator and thoughtful course design, communication key to ensure student get content that is best suited for their needs.
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 5: Multimodal User Interactions Challenges: There are limited tools to create multimodal user experiences and creating them can be costly. Takeaways: We are at the beginning stages of this and can go much further than just tactile graphics. Educators have more tools than ever before but discovery is really a big problem.
DIAGRAM Report 2017: Examination of Emerging Technologies Impact on Education Topic 6: Speech Recognition Challenges: Complex software, cost and training time, technology still limited. Takeaways: Rapidly evolving, becoming more mainstream, can remove barriers that make writing difficult for some people, speeds up the writing process in general.
Content Clarifier from IBM Powered by IBM Watson Uses machine learning and natural language processing to make reading, writing, and comprehending content easier. You can try it by creating and IBM Cloud Account
What the Content Clarifier Does Simplifies and summarizes complex language Provides definitions for words and ideas Replaces figures of speech with plain text Analyzes the emotions being communicated (joy, sad, fear, anger, disgust) Can add images for certain words
Whats New in Microsoft Office 365 Narrator - text-to-speech with highlighting OCR for uploaded scanned documents and Office Lens app Speech-to-text Auto image description Translator Live captioning Analytics
Tell Me feature Press Alt+Q to search for what you want in the toolbar. Or say tell me and then ask for what you want.
Beyond the Web: Accessibility in VR/AR Benefits of VR/AR Hospitality: Visit locations, AR tour guide, interactive maps Healthcare: Pain management, virtual body systems Video Games: New dimension of interactivity, social features Training: Military simulations, increased engagement in education
Beyond the Web: Accessibility in VR/AR Making VR/AR Accessible Multiple input options Sensitivity, speed settings Text size, color settings Audible updates and environment description Closed Captioning Zoom, focus options Customizable HUDs
MathType 7 WIRIS + MathType = MathType 7 Integrates with Canvas, Google Drive, and Office 365 Cloud-based browser plugin
Online Editor creates math and chemistry content MathML LaTeX page ChemType
Why ePub is the Standard for Accessible eBooks ePub files can contain HTML, CSS, SVGs Very responsive between different devices Navigation is built with accessibility in mind From 2017 onward all Macmillan books will be ePubs The majority of their top titles are now ePubs, they have converted more than 200 older PDFs Ace - accessibility checker for ePubs Bookshare - https://www.bookshare.org/cms/
Other Cool Things Microsoft Seeing AI app (http://seeingai.com) Able Gamers Charity (www.ablegamers.org) PlayStation accessibility features (https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/accessibility/) Matt May article, The Same, But Different: (https://theblog.adobe.com/different-breaking-accessibility- universality-inclusion-design/)
Additional Resources Deque Presentations (https://www.deque.com/presentation-slides/) eBook Device Grid (http://epubtest.org/testsuite/epub3/) DIAGRAM Report (http://diagramcenter.org/diagram-center- report.html) IBM AbilityLab Content Clarifier (https://www- 03.ibm.com/able/content-clarifier.html) Cognitive Web Accessibility Checklist (http://wave.webaim.org/cognitive) MathType Beta download (http://www.wiris.com/mathtype/download)
