Upcoming Webinar
JANUARY 2025 | MID-ATLANTIC ADA CENTER WEBINAR
The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Disability Rights
The L/AC would like to make you aware of this webinar from the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center:
The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Disability Rights
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
2-3:30 PM Eastern
AI is transforming businesses across all sectors, from targeted AI chat responses and advanced hiring tools to AI-powered smartphone features and personalized TV recommendations. However, the rapid adoption of AI has sparked concerns, including questionable monetization schemes and disability discrimination. When AI introduces bias that excludes individuals with disabilities from everyday activities, it creates significant civil rights challenges.
This webinar will explore the intersection of AI and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Diego Demaya, J.D., will discuss the latest legal developments, the impact of AI on accessibility, and how enforcement agencies and courts are addressing AI bias and seeking solutions.
Register today for this free webinar by clicking the “RSVP here” button below.
Upcoming Professional Development Opportunities
Hello colleagues,
The DO-IT Center is pleased to share the following two professional development opportunties. Please feel welcome to distribute to faculty, faculty development programs and any other groups or individuals that might have an interest:
This Class Isn’t Designed for Me!
- Date: Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
- Time: 12 pm -1 pm PST |1-2 pm MST | 2-3 pm CST | 3-4 pm EST | 11 am- 12 pm AKST | 10-11 am HI
- Registration Required: Zoom Registration Link
- About: Traditional and currently prevalent pedagogies of design perpetuate ableist and exclusionary notions of what it means to be a designer. In this session, Dr. Coppola will give a brief overview of historically exclusionary norms of design education and highlight modern-day instances of her own experience as a design educator in such epistemologies. Coppola will lead us in imagining a more inclusive and sustainable future of design education and present case studies from personal experience in redesigning course experiences for students with disabilities.
- Our presenter: Dr. Sarah Coppola (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. An educator and researcher, she is interested in inclusive pedagogy for teaching inclusive, human centered design. She holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University, a MS in Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University, and a Doctorate in Ergonomics from Harvard University.
- Accommodations: ASL and CART provided; Zoom captions enabled. For other accommodation requests please contact Eric at ericwt@uw.edu
- Sponsored by the AccessComputing, National Science Foundation grant #2417014. Any questions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the presenter(s), author(s), and/or participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.
Alternative Grading
- Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
- Time: 12 pm -1 pm PST |1-2 pm MST | 2-3 pm CST | 3-4 pm EST | 11 am- 12 pm AKST | 10-11 am HI
- Registration Required: Zoom Registration Link
- About: Mr. Lin will reflect on his experiences with alternative grading practices that better represent the learning that students achieve over time, producing more equitable outcomes by changing the way we determine final grades. Moreover, alternative grading also has the potential to empower students by making space for creative student work that might not otherwise thrive in a points-based grading ecosystem. But grading policies on their own often aren’t enough-at least not in the grade-focused culture at many institutions-so he’ll also share some of the challenges he’s faced and how he works toward better relationships between students, educators, and grades.
- Our presenter: Kevin Lin (he/him) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He leads instructional innovation in data programming and data structures with a focus on empowering students to redesign computing problems and artifacts. Lin received his MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he coordinated the teaching and delivery of very large-scale undergraduate CS courses to over 1,000 students per semester.
- Accommodations: ASL and CART provided; Zoom captions enabled. For other accommodation requests please contact Eric at ericwt@uw.edu
Sponsored by the Alliance for Identity Inclusive Computing Education (AiiCE), National Science Foundation grant #EES 2118453. Any questions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the presenter(s), author(s), and/or participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the federal government.
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