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The Pros and Cons of AI in Special Education

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Special education teachers fill out mountains of paperwork, customize lessons for students with a wide range of learning differences, and attend hours of bureaucratic meetings.

It’s easy to see why it would be tempting to outsource parts of that job to a robot.

While there may never be a special educator version of “Star Wars”’ protocol droid C-3PO, generative artificial tools—including ChatGPT and others developed with the large language models created by its founder, Open AI—can help special education teachers perform parts of their job more efficiently, allowing them to spend more time with their students, experts and educators say.

But those shortcuts come with plenty of cautions, they add.

Teachers need to review artificial intelligence’s suggestions carefully to ensure that they are right for specific students. Student data—including diagnoses of learning differences or cognitive disorders—need to be kept private.

Even special educators who have embraced the technology urge to proceed with care.

“I’m concerned about how AI is being presented right now to educators, that it’s this magical tool,” said Julie Tarasi, who teaches special education at Lakeview Middle School in the Park Hill school district near Kansas City, Mo. She recently completed a course in AI sponsored by the International Society for Technology in Education. “And I don’t think that the AI literacy aspect of it is necessarily being [shared] to the magnitude that it should be with teachers.”

Park Hill is cautiously experimenting with AI’s potential as a paperwork partner for educators and an assistive technology for some students in special education.

The district is on the vanguard. Only about 1 in 6 principals and district leaders—16 percent—said their schools or districts were piloting AI tools or using them in a limited manner with students in special education, according to a nationally representative EdWeek Research Center survey conducted in March and April.

AI tools may work best for teachers who already have a deep understanding of what works for students in special education, and of the tech itself, said Amanda Morin, a member of the advisory board for the learner-variability project at Digital Promise, a nonprofit organization that works on equity and technology issues in schools.

“If you feel really confident in your special education knowledge and experience and you have explored AI [in depth], I think those two can combine in a way that can really accelerate the way you serve students,” Morin said.

But “if you are a novice at either, it’s not going to serve your students well because you don’t know what you don’t know yet,” she added. “You may not even know if the tool is giving you a good answer.”

Here are some of the areas where Park Hill educators and other school and district leaders see AI’s promise for special education—and what caveats to look out for:

Promise: Reducing the paperwork burden.

Some special education teachers spend as many as eight hours a week writing student-behavior plans, progress reports, and other documentation.

“Inevitably, we’re gonna get stuck, we’re gonna struggle to word things,” Tarasi said. AI can be great for busting through writer’s block or finding a clearer, more objective way to describe a student’s behavior, she said.

What’s more, tools such as Magic School—an AI platform created for K-12 education—can help special education teachers craft the student learning goals that must be included in an individualized education program, or IEP.

“I can say ‘I need a reading goal to teach vowels and consonants to a student,’ and it will generate a goal,” said Tara Bachmann, Park Hill’s assistive-technology facilitator. “You can put the criteria you want in, but it makes it measurable, then my teachers can go in and insert the specifics about the student” without involving AI, Bachmann said.

These workarounds can cut the process of writing an IEP by up to 30 minutes, Bachmann said—giving teachers more time with students.

AI can also come to the rescue when a teacher needs to craft a polite, professional email to a parent after a stress-inducing encounter with their child.

Some Park Hill special education teachers use “Goblin,” a free tool aimed at helping neurodivergent people organize tasks, to take the “spice” out of those messages, Tarasi said.

A teacher could write “the most emotionally charged email. Then you hit a button called ‘formalize.’ And it makes it like incredibly professional,” Bachmann said. “Our teachers like it because they have a way to release the emotion but still communicate the message to the families.”

Caveat: Don’t share personally identifiable student information. Don’t blindly embrace AI’s suggestions.

Teachers must be extremely careful about privacy issues when using AI tools to write documents—from IEPs to emails—that contain sensitive student information, Tarasi said.

“If you wouldn’t put it on a billboard outside of the school, you should not be putting it into any sort of AI,” Tarasi said. “There’s no sense of guaranteed privacy.”

Tarasi advises her colleagues to “absolutely not put in names” when using generative AI to craft documents, she said. While including students’ approximate grade level may be OK in certain circumstances, inputting their exact age or mentioning a unique diagnosis is a no-no.

To be sure, if the information teachers put into AI is too vague, educators might not get accurate suggestions for their reports. That requires a balance.

“You need to be specific without being, without being pinpoint,” Tarasi said.

Caveat: AI works best for teachers who already understand special education

Another caution: Although AI tools can help teachers craft a report or customize a general education lesson for students in special education, teachers need to already have a deep understanding of their students to know whether to adopt its recommendations.

Relying solely on AI tools for lesson planning or writing reports “takes the individualized out of individualized education,” Morin said. “Because what [the technology] is doing is spitting out things that come up a lot” as opposed to carefully considering what’s best for a specific student, like a good teacher can.

Educators can tweak their prompts—the questions they ask AI—to get better, more specific advice, she added.

“A seasoned special educator would be able to say ‘So I have a student with ADHD, and they’re fidgety’ and get more individualized recommendations,” Morin said.

Promise: Making lessons more accessible.

Ensuring students in special education master the same course content as their peers can require teachers to spend hours simplifying the language of a text to an appropriate reading level.

Generative AI tools can accomplish that same task—often called “leveling a text"—in just minutes, said Josh Clark, the leader of the Landmark School , a private school in Massachusetts serving children with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.

“If you have a class of 30 kids in 9th grade, and they’re all reading about photosynthesis, then for one particular child, you can customize [the] reading level without calling them out and without anybody else knowing and without you, the teacher, spending hours,” Clark said. “I think that’s a super powerful way of allowing kids to access information they may not be able to otherwise.”

Similarly, in Park Hill, Bachmann has used Canva—a design tool with a version specifically geared toward K-12 schools and therefore age-appropriate for many students—to help a student with cerebral palsy create the same kind of black-and-white art his classmates were making.

Kristen Ponce, the district’s speech and language pathologist, has used Canva to provide visuals for students in special education as they work to be more specific in their communication.

Case-in-point: One of Ponce’s students loves to learn about animals, but he has a very clear idea of what he’s looking for, she said. If the student just says “bear,” Canva will pull up a picture of, for instance, a brown grizzly. But the student may have been thinking of a polar bear.

That gives Ponce the opportunity to tell him, “We need to use more words to explain what you’re trying to say here,” she said. “We were able to move from ‘bear’ to ‘white bear on ice.’”

Caveat: It’s not always appropriate to use AI as an accessibility tool.

Not every AI tool can be used with every student. For instance, there are age restrictions for tools like ChatGPT, which isn’t for children under 13 or those under 18 without parent permission, Bachmann said. (ChatGPT does not independently verify a user’s age.)

“I caution my staff about introducing it to children who are too young and remembering that and that we try to focus on what therapists and teachers can do collectively to make life easier for [students],” she said.

“Accessibility is great,” she said. But when a teacher is thinking about “unleashing a child freely on AI, there is caution to it.”

Promise: Using AI tools to help students in special education communicate.

Park Hill is just beginning to use AI tools to help students in special education express their ideas.

One recent example: A student with a traumatic brain injury that affected her language abilities made thank you cards for several of her teachers using Canva.

“She was able to generate personal messages to people like the school nurses,” Bachmann said. “To her physical therapist who has taken her to all kinds of events outside in the community. She said, ‘You are my favorite therapist.’ She got very personal.”

There may be similar opportunities for AI to help students in special education write more effectively.

Some students with learning and thinking differences have trouble organizing their thoughts or getting their point across.

“When we ask a child to write, we’re actually asking them to do a whole lot of tasks at once,” Clark said. Aspects of writing that might seem relatively simple to a traditional learner—word retrieval, grammar, punctuation, spelling—can be a real roadblock for some students in special education, he said.

“It’s a huge distraction,” Clark said. The student may “have great ideas, but they have difficulty coming through.”

Caveat: Students may miss out on the critical-thinking skills writing builds.

Having students with language-processing differences use AI tools to better express themselves holds potential, but if it is not done carefully, students may miss developing key skills, said Digital Promise’s Morin.

AI “can be a really positive adaptive tool, but I think you have to be really structured about how you’re doing it,” she said.

ChatGPT or a similar tool may be able to help a student with dyslexia or a similar learning difference “create better writing, which I think is different than writing better,” Morin said.

Since it’s likely that students will be able to use those tools in the professional world, it makes sense that they begin using them in school, she said.

But the tools available now may not adequately explain the rationale behind the changes they make to a student’s work or help students express themselves more clearly in the future.

“The process is just as important as the outcome, especially with kids who learn differently, right?” Morin said. “Your process matters.”

Clark agreed on the need for moving cautiously. His own school is trying what he described as “isolated experiments” in using AI to help students with language-processing differences express themselves better.

The school is concentrating, for now, on older students preparing to enter college. Presumably, many will be able to use AI to complete some postsecondary assignments. “How do we make sure it’s an equal playing field?” Clark said.

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The popularity of college degrees has certainly taken a hit. The recent sentiment is that college education costs have become exorbitant, and earning one doesn’t guarantee success in your career after graduation. With college degrees costing roughly $36,436 per student per year and more and more companies no longer requiring college degrees for hiring, it’s easy to see why. After all, if Elon Musk says you don’t need it, then you’re better off without a diploma, right?

Well, not quite. Because even though college degrees are no longer a requirement for many top companies, they still hold a lot of merit and weight. As for me, I loved my four years at UC Irvine and would not change a thing even if I could. Here are four ways college degrees are still relevant in 2024.

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One of the most common arguments against getting a college degree is that with the rise of online education and e-learning platforms, there’s no reason to spend thousands of dollars and four years of your life (not to mention 20 years to pay off student loans ) to educate yourself.

While alternative modes of learning are a welcome development, they alone don’t make college degrees worthless. Because in a university environment, you learn more than just your coursework.

In college, you learn everything from time management to people skills as you navigate various academic challenges and social situations. You’re taught not only the core subjects of your degree, but you’re also acquainted with the other fields that inform it. If you love learning, then a college degree can be of great value to you.

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The structured environment of a university fosters personal growth and development in ways that are difficult to replicate through self-directed online learning or even trade school. Given the structured format, this can seem counterintuitive at first.

However, the pre-planned curriculum is already designed with exploration in mind, as you can choose electives, minors, and even double majors that complement your primary area of study. These choices allow you to tailor your education to your interests and aspirations, encouraging exploration within a structured framework.

Outside the classroom, you can also join sports teams, clubs, and extracurricular activities, further enhancing personal growth and development. In the long term, any of these experiences can open you up to opportunities down the road.

While it is true that half of college graduates end up in fields they didn’t major in, the various activities that they partook in along the way likely led them to the career they eventually settled in.

College Gives You Excellent Networking Opportunities

Perhaps the greatest advantage of pursuing a college degree (and getting into a good school) is the networking opportunities you can take advantage of during and after your life on campus. Despite their up and down relationship, it was while studying at Harvard that Mark Zuckerberg met his friend Eduardo Saverin , whose initial investment of $15,000 helped start Facebook.

Meanwhile, Google was created by Stanford alumni Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who met each other on campus. It was also on the same campus that Even Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy met. They later established Snapchat.

Successful entrepreneurs and inventors come from all kinds of backgrounds, and universities definitely don’t have a monopoly on success. But it’s clear that pursuing a college degree puts you in the company of people with similar ambitions, passions, and intellect. The connections you make during your college years can prove to be invaluable assets throughout your life and career.

They (Still) Help You Get a Job

It’s true that many of the world’s top companies no longer require college degrees, but that doesn’t mean you can just get those jobs straight after graduating from high school. Recruiters only bypass the college degree requirement in order to prioritize work experience and demonstrable work experience, both of which are easier to obtain with a college degree.

This is because, as a fresh graduate, a college degree allows you to leverage some of the pull and reputation that your alma mater may have. In the absence of prior work experience, a college degree serves as a form of credential and validation of your abilities and demonstrates your commitment to learning and ability to complete a rigorous form of study successfully.

At the end of the day, the decision to pursue higher education will come down to what the student wants and prioritizes. If you already know exactly what you want to do and can get hands-on experience in that field, college may not be right for you!

But if you are like the majority of young adults and want some time to explore different paths, socialize with others, and spend time learning different fields you enjoy, enrolling in college could be your path. Good luck!

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Sask. teachers resoundingly reject province's contract offer

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Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation (STF) members have voted to reject a contract offer after months of strife with the province. 

The STF confirmed the result Thursday evening, saying that 92.2 per cent of its members voted over the previous two days, with 90 per cent of them rejecting the province's offer.

The STF said it has issued an invitation to the government's bargaining committee to resume negotiations this coming Monday. The STF also said it would host a news conference Friday at 10:30 a.m. CST.

"The message to government and the Saskatchewan School Boards Association is crystal clear: their so-called 'final offer' is unacceptable and does a disservice to students and teachers," said STF president Samantha Becotte in a release.

"We need a deal that guarantees the government's full, unwavering commitment to the future of public schools beyond the election cycle. Anything less is untenable.

"We are nearing the end of a school year spent under the shadow of an intransigent government that seems to disregard the largest job sanctions ever undertaken by Saskatchewan teachers and ignore students' needs. No more backroom deals and no more 'final offers.'"

Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation president responds to contract vote result

Minister of Education Jeremy Cockrill said he is disappointed in the result and called the offer fair, saying it reflected the best interests of students, teachers, parents and taxpayers.

"The best deal will be reached at the bargaining table, and both sides should immediately agree to return to the table and avoid any further sanctions that could jeopardize instructional time and important milestone events for Saskatchewan students," Cockrill said in a statement.

Official Opposition Leader Carla Beck also weighed in on the vote results, saying they send a clear message to the Saskatchewan Party government.

"Teachers, parents and now even students know [Premier] Scott Moe doesn't care about education and are ready to do something about it. Our next generation deserves better," Beck said in a statement.

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The province's three-year collective agreement offer featured a three per cent salary increase in the first and second years, with the first increase retroactive to September 2023, and then a two per cent increase in the third year.

The core issues the STF and province have butted heads over during negotiations are class size and complexity.

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The contract included an article stating that an accountability framework — laid out as part of a memorandum of understanding to ensure provincial funding doled out to the Saskatchewan School Boards Association would benefit students — would be honoured.

The STF and the government have struggled to come to an agreement since negotiations began last May.

Saskatchewan's 13,500 teachers have been without a contract since August 2023 and voted in favour of job action in October. Months of job action followed, including rotating strikes, work-to-rule action, and withdrawal from extracurricular activities and voluntary duties.

Once the deal was on the table, STF referred to it as a "final offer," but the province called it a "tentative agreement."

In a previous news release, the government's bargaining committee called the contract offer "a fair and reasonable settlement that will benefit teachers, families and students."

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Ahead of the vote, Becotte said she was maintaining a neutral position, although she still critiqued the province's bargaining committee and strategies. 

"They know what is best for themselves, what is best for their schools and what is best for their colleagues," she said.

Prior to the vote, Premier Scott Moe alluded to potentially extending the school year if it was rejected.

He said school divisions would have to make difficult choices about extending the school year by days or even weeks.

Becotte retorted that there's been more time lost to snow days than job sanctions.

"It's disappointing that they are really overstepping their role and trying to influence the vote," she said.

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June interest rate cut a 'toss-up': What the jobs bonanza means for the Bank of Canada

Economy added 90,000 jobs in April, but unemployment rate held at 6.1%

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Statistics Canada released employment data that showed the economy added 90,000 jobs in April — it’s strongest increase in 15 months — rebounding from a loss of 2,200 in March and beating analyst estimates for a gain of 20,000 positions.

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Despite the increase, the unemployment rate held at 6.1 per cent, that national data agency said as the number of people looking for work continued to rise as Canada’s swelling population expands the workforce.

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Here’s what economists are saying about the latest jobs numbers and what they could mean for the Bank of Canada and interest rates .

July, not June: Capital Economics

The latest jobs data give the Bank of Canada breathing room on when to cut interest rates, with economists at London-based Capital saying that a July cut appears more likely than one in June.

“The big picture is that the resilience of the labour market affords the bank more time to wait to ensure that the recent run of favourable CPI (consumer price index) data will be sustained,” Stephen Brown, deputy chief North America economist, said in a note.

There is only one inflation release before the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate announcement on June 5, but three consumer price index reports prior to the bank’s July 24 meeting.

“That makes it more likely that the bank will wait until the late July meeting to cut interest rates,” Brown said.

The economist also noted that March’s “surprise” loss of 2,200 positions was likely a “blip” and the economics house now thinks the latest jobs data could provide a boost to gross domestic product .

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Sticking with June: Desjardins

“We’re sticking with our call that the central bank cuts rates in June,” Royce Mendes, managing director and head of macro strategy for Desjardins Group, said in a note.

While the jobs gains were attention-getting, the labour market is showing signs of “slack,” Mendes said, as Canada’s population aged 15 and over increased by 112,000, in April, outstripping the gains.

Year-over-year, the population grew 3.3 per cent compared with employment growth of 1.9 per cent in the 15 and up age group, Statistics Canada said .

“We’re not convinced that this report will materially change the Bank of Canada’s assessment of the labour market,” Mendes said.

Still, with the jobs numbers rebounding, the inflation report, out on May 21, will be that much more important to the Bank of Canada, he said.

‘In a position to cut in June’: Royal Bank of Canada

Canada’s jobs market has yet to make a case for the Bank of Canada to act with urgency on rate cuts, Nathan Janzen, assistant chief economist at the Royal Bank of Canada, said in a note.

“Labour markets have softened enough to lower inflation risks going forward and justify a pivot to interest rate cuts from the Bank of Canada,” Janzen said. “But the bottom still hasn’t fallen out,” Janzen said.

For now, RBC is sticking with a June cut.

“Our own base-case assumption is that the BoC will be in a position to cut the overnight rate in June,” Janzen said, noting that signs of weakness in the jobs market are building.

For example, wage growth slowed to 4.7 per cent from 5.1 per cent, while the labour market continues to lag the increase in Canada’s population. There is also evidence that it is taking people longer to find work, Janzen said.

But the strong headline number can’t be completely discounted and means the inflation report for April needs to deliver continued evidence of easing price pressures, the economist said.

June cut in the cards: Alberta Central

The April jobs rebound isn’t likely to hold much “sway” with central bank officials, Alberta Central chief economist Charles St-Arnaud said in a note Friday.

St-Arnaud, who is still predicting a cut at the June meeting, said the Bank of Canada’s focus is squarely on inflation.

Despite an uptick to 2.9 per cent in March from 2.8 per cent in February, the number of goods and services where prices are rising at more than two per cent year over year continues to shrink, while core inflation “is returning below three per cent” — the top end of the Bank of Canada’s inflation target range.

That, he said, means a June cut is still on the table. One thing that could derail the central bank: a “positive surprise” on inflation.

‘June rate decision a toss-up’: BMO

Canada’s “startling” jobs gain in April “will give the Bank of Canada some pause” on when to cut interest rates, Douglas Porter, chief economist at Bank of Montreal, said in a note.

April’s jobs data show the “economy is clearly not rolling over,” Porter said.

An increase in total hours worked, which could translate into higher-than-forecast GDP for the second quarter, numbered among the economic positives. Further, the private sector recorded a “solid” 50,000 increase in jobs.

On the downside, the jobless rate is up from last year and the number of unemployed people rose 24  per cent year over year.

That’s left markets somewhat in limbo on where rates go from here.

“Markets are now back to viewing the June rate decision as a toss-up,” Porter said, “with the April CPI on May 21 looming even larger.”

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