In June, the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) announced their Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2018. The apps encourage qualities such as creativity and collaboration and encourage discovery and curiosity.

This app can be helpful in so many ways, especially for people experiencing difficulties with vision! It can read you a document or a book, distinguish money, recognize people’s faces, and more.

“The AI in Seeing AI stands for artificial intelligence. This Microsoft app is translating a visual world into words for people with visual difficulties. Documents, products, scenes, people, colors, money, and handwriting are some of the settings offered in this app. Scenes and people are described along with information like relative location and distance. Microsoft has put accessibility in a pocket-sized format in this powerful tool for iPhones.”

Platform: iOS
Grades: All
Cost: FREE

Seeing AI is included in this article of ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into the classroom. This post from NVIDIA gets into the way the app was developed and shares some real-world situations in which the app is helpful. Finally, this article from Perkins School for the Blind breaks down each category of the app and includes a video along with a description.

Watch this video and see how the app works!