Apply AI tools in special education environments: Review

The final 'Exercise - Reflection' asks you to list three ways you could use AI to support your special education students. It's an odd question, considering the module itself doesn't give you three concrete, actionable ways to do anything. It just tells you that AI *can* help with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) or create accessible materials, usually by showing screenshots of Microsoft Copilot prompts. The whole thing felt like a marketing deck for a product I don't have access to and a test I hadn't studied for.

I was really hoping for a guide, maybe a template, or at least a walkthrough of how to use existing tools in Office or Teams to achieve something specific. Instead, it's just a high-level pitch. It mentions Immersive Reader and other Microsoft 365 features but doesn't show you where to click or how to configure them for a student with a specific need. The 'Benefits and Challenges' unit is a list of bullet points you could get from any tech blog. This isn't a training module; it's a series of paragraphs followed by a multiple-choice quiz that just checks if you read them. As a free resource, it's hard to complain too much, but it's also a waste of time. I finished it and two other related modules in under an hour and learned nothing I couldn't have gotten from a single good YouTube video. It’s a dead end.