AI Transcription Tools: Classroom Accommodation
We have had a request from a parent of an HS student with ADHD and a significant auditory processing delay to use AI transcription in class for note-taking support.
I'm wondering if any of you allow students or teachers to use AI transcription of lessons as an accommodation, and if you do, what kinds of practices or guidelines you have in place around it. If you don't do it yet, but are thinking about it, I'd also appreciate hearing more about the considerations in your setting.
Right now we're investigating it from the tech standpoint (integration with our existing systems, data privacy and security, etc), the privacy and consent perspective (who has access, for what purposes, who needs to consent, etc), and broader applications. For example, we find that many parents bring their own translation apps to parent engagement sessions which provide a written transcript of the session and we also have Gemini now offering to transcribe all of our meetings, so we're thinking about how this type of accommodation fits into the conversation around tools for those purposes.
Would love to hear if/how your schools are approaching this!