CIDDList: A Year in Review
Authors: Samantha Goldman; info@ciddl.org
It’s hard to believe that 2024 is ending and the fall semester is over. This past year, so much has happened in special education, higher education, and technology. CIDDList readers of the past will recall that these blogs are typically lists of recommended apps, books, podcasts, or tools. Rather than our traditional CIDDList, this year’s CIDDList is a BINGO board (though we call it a CIDDL board).
If you accept it—and we here at CIDDL hope you will—your mission is to engage with this list and treat it as your winter break professional learning. The board below is Rock-Chalk-Jayhawk-ed with our favorite Podcasts, important guidance documents, and tools we’ve leveraged in our courses.
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| C | I | D | D | L |
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| Our report, Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of AI on Education for All Learners, was launched in March! Check it out! | Explore technologies that can support your research in our downloadable Guide! Find one and try it out. | Find CIDDL in the Empowering Education Leaders: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration (and read the guide!) | Learn about AI in our blog series! | Catch up on old CIDDLists! |
| Find a program similar to yours that participated in our Tech Alliance! Review their Case Study. | Listen to Edtech Insiders, which focuses on technology in K-12. | Check out our new supplementary graphics for Artificial Intelligence: The Impact of AI on Education for All Learners! | Learn about AI in Special Education Teacher Preparation in our webinar series. | Listen to the Daily AI Brief and learn about what is going on in the world of AI. |
| Check out the Office of Educational Technology’s A Playbook for Student Personal Device Policies. | Learn about the new Digital Accessibility Guidelines from the Department of Justice.. | Free Space! | See how the report Using Title II, Part A Funds to Strategically Support Educator discusses technology funding. | Did you miss our AI Chats? Catch the replay. |
| Want to learn to use some AI tools in under 10 minutes? Watch an AI Blitz or two! | Are you curious about how AI can support IEP development? Check out our latest webinar series. | Watch innovative ways people are leveraging AI in Higher Education in our Vlogs. | Check out our report on the Emergent Themes in AI Guidance. Is your state listed? If so, review the findings. | Read guidance on Avoiding Discriminatory Use of AI. |
| Find a post in our Community and add your thoughts to it, OR ask a question and create a post yourself! | Find a researcher we featured in our Research and Practice brief series who works in an area of interest to you. Read through or watch their brief! | Read through the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Teachers. | Learn ways to leverage AI to support special education teacher workload in our recorded series. | Here’s a new resource on Generative AI: Use Cases in Education by EdTech Insiders. How could you integrate it into your coursework? |
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