AI, Medical, Mental Health, and Accessibility

• AI + SEL & The Mental Health Crisis: How Can We Leverage New Tech to Meet the Moment? (and What Are the Risks?). Margot Toppen. The edu-sphere is buzzing about how AI will impact education, but as a veteran SEL program developer, I’ve been surprised by how little we’ve heard about AI and social and emotional learning (SEL). To fill this void, I decided to talk to other experts in the field and conduct a “SWOT” analysis to examine the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats AI presents to our field.
• Nov 29, 2023. AI + SEL & The Mental Health Crisis. Webinar from AI for Education.
• 2024. Intersection of Accessibility and AI. Katie Bertel, Princeton. See slide 16 for a list of accessibility tools.

Captioning

• Whisper. To generate more accurate video captions.

Inclusive

• Jan 1, 2025. Inclusive Education in the Age of AI: A Critical Perspective on Policy Guidelines through the Lens of Ecological-Systemic Theory of Technological Mediation. Valeria Cesaroni. “After providing an overview of the main soft policy documents developed by UNESCO regarding AI and inclusion, I highlight how the emerging theoretical framework risks conflating inclusion with integration and techno-solutionist perspectives.”
• While not focused specifically on AI, these tools from the Georgetown University Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship might be useful in thinking about AI as inclusive technology.
  • Inclusive Pedagogy Toolkit. “In this toolkit, we offer concrete suggestions for designing inclusive, equitable learning environments through five key interconnected aspects of teaching and learning relevant to all courses.”
  • Learning, Equity, Access, and Pedagogy Initiative. “Focusing on a department-led approach to fostering inclusive and accountable academic environments, LEAP recognizes that impactful change is most effective when embraced collectively.”
• Universal Design for Learning. CAST. “CAST created the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework so that all learning experiences in school, the workplace, and life are thoughtfully designed to elevate strengths and eliminate barriers.”

Medical Ethics

• 13 Mar 2023. Ken Masters. Ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education: AMEE Guide No. 158. In the Guide, each topic explains the concept and its importance and gives some indication of how to cope with its complexities.
• Oct 26, 2024. Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said. Garance Burke and Hilke Schellmann. “But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments.”

Medical information

• 2022. Why AlphaFold won’t revolutionise drug discovery. Derek Lowe. “DeepMind’s AlphaFold team has been having quite a run of success in predicting protein structures. This has long been considered one of the truly difficult problems in computational biology, and AlphaFold has made extraordinary progress over the last year or two. This has culminated in the recent release of predicted structures for the great majority of the human proteome, which is the sort of thing that, ten years ago, would have sounded like the opening of a science fiction story.”
• Patient Actor. From Dartmouth
• May 5, 2024. Agent Hospital: A Simulacrum of Hospital with Evolvable Medical Agents. Junkai Li, Siyu Wang, Meng Zhang, Weitao Li, Yunghwei Lai, Xinhui Kang, Weizhi Ma, Yang Liu. In this paper, we introduce a simulacrum of hospital called Agent Hospital that simulates the entire process of treating illness.
• Feb 28, 2025. AI and health care: risk and our imagination shouldn’t hold us back. Susan Shelmerdine. “AI, particularly generative AI (or even artificial general intelligence (AGI) in the future), presents a powerful opportunity to transform the system – if we can harness its potential wisely.”
• April 23, 2025. Artificial intelligence and physician burnout: A productivity paradox. David Alexander Goodson, Brittany Garcia, Michael Hogarth, Shin-Ping Tu. “Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled healthcare technologies are often promoted on the basis of their promise to reduce burnout by introducing efficiencies into clinical work, particularly related to EHR utilization and documentation. Where documentation is perceived as the problem, AI scribes are offered as the solution.”
• May 15, 2025. Scientific Evidence for Clinical Text Summarization Using Large Language Models: Scoping Review. Lydie Bednarczyk, Daniel Reichenpfader, Christophe Gaudet-Blavignac, Amon Kenna Ette, Jamil Zaghir, Yuanyuan Zheng, Adel Bensahla, Mina Bjelogrlic, Christian Lovis. “This study aims to present the current state of the art on clinical text summarization using large language models, evaluate the level of evidence in existing research and assess the applicability of performance findings in clinical settings.”

Teaching with AI

• 2024. Improving Learner Accessibility with AI. Laura Yost, Kirkwood Community College.
• Sept 6, 2024. A New Era of Special Education Begins with Inclusive AI. Timothy Shriver. “The decisions that school leaders make in the next academic year are likely to determine whether this technological wave creates more inclusive learning environments, or exacerbates existing disparities.”
• Feb 25, 2025. TCALC Offers Groundbreaking AI Course for International Students. “In Winter 2025, Temple’s Center for American Language and Culture (TCALC) pioneered a new approach to AI literacy supporting international students through its groundbreaking course, AI Essentials for Academic Success.”
• Apr 27, 2025. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Inclusive Education: A Systematic Review. Verónica-Alexandra Melo-López, Andrea Basantes-Andrade, Carla-Belén Gudiño-Mejía, Evelyn Hernández-Martínez. “This study underscores the necessity for policies and strategies that ensure the ethical and sustainable utilization of AI in inclusive environments.”
• July 9, 2025. Using AI to serve inclusive education. Monique Mackenzie and Elliott Spaeth. “Our current university system is not systematically meeting the needs of the neurodivergent community…who highlight artificial intelligence’s potential for education that serves all learners.”
• Analog Inspiration. “A card deck to inspire human-centered teaching and learning in the age of generative artificial intelligence.”
• Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (JDEI) Teaching Toolkit. “While this toolkit can be quickly scanned in approximately 30 minutes, as with racial justice work, it is ongoing and not time-bound.”
• Category: Artificial Intelligence. CIDDL.org. Lots of different articles here.
• Can AI help bridge the gap in inclusive education? Sophia Torres Cantella, Marta Carnelli and Julie de Barbeyrac, UNICEF.

Voice and AI

• Apr 2025. Gemini Live: Breaking Educational Barriers with AI. Sarah Elaine Eaton. “Gemini Live is Google’s new conversational AI assistant that responds to voice commands in real-time. Unlike text-based interactions, Gemini Live allows for natural, flowing conversations. This voice-first approach opens new possibilities for accessibility in educational settings. It was released last month, and I just got around to trying it today.”