TAER 2025 Conference

Illuminating Possibilities with AI, 3D Printing, and VR in Education - Donna Clemens
Description: Join us for an exploration of how advanced technologies—Artificial Intelligence (AI), 3D printing, and Virtual Reality (VR)—are reshaping education and enhancing student engagement, accessibility, and creativity. This session will dive into cutting-edge applications across diverse learning environments, from using AI to personalize learning pathways, to 3D printing for hands-on STEM experiences, to VR for immersive, real-world simulations. We will discuss successful case studies, including VR environments for students with visual impairments, and examine how these tools can be applied to meet varied learning needs. Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how to integrate these technologies into their own educational settings, unlocking new possibilities for innovation and inclusion.

Whether your student wants “everything, everywhere, all at once” or is “too cool for school,” this session will help you think outside the box to meet your students’ needs. Through case studies, options for each style of student will be presented. Also, the benefits of using AI with Assistive Technology.

To mitigate the challenges inherent in screen readers within computer programming code, the research team developed and is testing JupyterVox. This presentation describes the qualities of JupyterVox and reports on our experiments to date.

The Tactonom Reader enables blind and visually impaired people to independently access, understand and learn with tactile graphics.
A camera identifies the position of the finger and explains the content. The system comes with a wealth of features and access to a large free database of audio-tactile graphics.

Using Windows operating system, use Prodigi for Windows to enlarge printed documents and read more efficiently with Diamond Edge characters, various reading modes, speech, distance viewing colour images and more. on portable formfactor! The Windows operating system allows one to make your laptop efficient and multi-tasking!

Using other tools to make tactile graphics are fine, but now you can make them digital! Utilizing the Monarch, you will be able to make and use your own graphics with your computer. Putting them onto the device is easy and can be edited whenever needed. Come see!

A discussion on innovative ways to assist students with visual impairments to access a variety of materials in the General Education setting including Math, Maps, Charts, Graphs, and using AI to help create accessibility.