These tools use AI to generate ideas and strategies to support a few common inclusive learning needs. They are experimental - see how you go and get in touch with me if you have any thoughts or feedback. Please use your own experience, insight and ethics when using them: results will vary. Tinker and play. I also have more resources for you to explore below.
I recently gave a talk at TEDxCooksHill on how AI can be used to support daily executive functioning goals. The focus of the talk is my ‘Rhythm, Insight, Play’ model, a way of walking and talking intentionally with AI.
You can watch a recording of my talk here, and please feel free to chat more with me about this approach to utilising AI to support executive functioning.
I’m always eager to hear innovative ways you might be using this tech too :)
Prompts and Projects
I am building a library of generative AI prompts to help support educators across different domains of inclusive teaching.
My idea here is that by crafting prompts for AI that address specific challenges and scenarios in inclusive education, educators are, in essence, engaging with the core principles of inclusivity, such as differentiation, accessibility, and personalised learning.
There are also real-world creative projects I’ve developed using a range of AI tools. Take a look:
Rhythm, Insight, Play
I’ve pulled together a collection of AI-fuelled routines and processes that I’m calling the ‘Rhythm, Insight and Play’ model. It’s not really a model, it’s more a series of examples of how I use daily and weekly conversations with generative AI.
Take a look at how I have created a cyclical flow where I engage in Rhythm discussions focused on executive functioning needs; Insight analysis to find trends in daily notes; and Play to let the mind experiment and fly.
AI Support for Neurodivergent Teens
This resource supports young people in secondary school who are moving into post-school academic settings like university and TAFE. It was created to support a webinar on the same topic hosted in collaboration with Neurodiversity Academy.
Included are ideas to support core executive functioning needs, as well as links and an accompanying presentation.
This year, I have delivered two webinars on artificial intelligence and inclusive education. The recordings are below.
The ‘Practical AI’ webinar below is very hands-on, looking at different parts of a day in the life of teachers, students and families; the other recording focuses half on ethics and policy, and half on practical applications in education.
I have been publishing articles to support these webinars on my LinkedIn if you’d like to explore this content further.
Quarterly journal
I’ve launched a new free quarterly Substack journal. It is a deep dive into AI, neurodiversity, psychogeography, music, and philosophy. I try to engage with themes that intertwine personal knowledge management with the richness of human experience and creativity.
I wrote an article on a tool i’ve been using recently to help clarify some AI education projects. You can read it here:
Further reading:
Craig is a teacher and consultant for special education, accessibility and technology. He is currently a national manager of an Australian autism education project and has in recent years delivered seminars in Dubai, United Nations workshops in Shanghai, masterclasses in South Africa and Singapore and speaking tours of New Zealand. Outside of education he is a recognised composer, author and photographer. He lives in Hamilton with his wife and two children.
I’m funding the running of these AI tools from my own pocket because I want to make them easily accessible to everyone. If they stop working for the month, it’s because I’ve hit my personal budget limit for costs. Any donation you can make will help keep these tools running longer, if not only for yourself then for others who benefit from them ♡