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Thirteen years previously, the Northern Ireland Women’s team achieved what is widely considered the biggest one-off result in their history. Taking the scalp of a team that was a European Championship Semi-Finalist just a couple of years earlier sent shock waves around the continent. The team on the end of that surprise result was Norway when Kirsty McGuinness, Ashley Hutton and Rachel Furness scored the goals in a wonderful 3-1 win under former manager Alfie Wylie. Norway went on to finish second at the Women’s Euro 2013 Finals, and now the same opponents stand in the way of Northern Ireland and a second successive Euros, with captain Simone Magill – the only surviving member of the squad – recalling the past as she targets a repeat in the final Play-Off for Women’s Euro 2025 ahead of Friday’s first-leg clash at Inver Park. “I remember it really well,” says Magill, who played the final 20 minutes as a substitute that night at Mourneview Park. “I was only 17 at the time and I remember, similar to this game, we were ruled the underdogs, no one expected us to get anything from that game, and I think for us, in the landscape of Northern Ireland women’s football, it was a real historic night. “We defied all the odds and we came away with a win. If you want to look at underdog stories, that’s one right there that we have done, and that’s the message that we will implement into the group this week, that anything is possible. “At the time, Norway were ranked one of the top teams in Europe, and where we were at on our journey, it was unheard of. We’d no professional players back then, either, so the fact that we were able to do it then, it should give us our own belief that anything can happen. “We just approached the game that if we believe we can go and do something, then we will go and do it. “We got an early goal, and that really instils the belief that we had something to hold on to – and then we went and got another one. “Those kind of messages are what we have to take into Friday that, yes, the pressure is completely on Norway, no one expects us to come away with anything in this game.” Magill isn’t the only player who was in the early stages of her international career back in 2013 and who will again lace up their boots at Inver Park. Norway’s Ballon d’Or Feminin winner Ada Hergerberg made her debut off the bench as a 16-year-old when Norway tried to rescue something from the game, and three-time Champions League winner Caroline Graham Hansen was winning only her second cap. With almost 100 goals between them at international level, Norway will again lean on their star duo to deliver the goals to send them to another Euro Finals. Magill is cast in the same role for Northern Ireland. “As a team, we are fully aware that we might not get a lot of chances and that, as a team, we need to be clinical in those moments, we need to be ruthless if we get a sniff, and if we get a set-piece, we have to make absolutely everything count,” she says. “We know the kind of task that is up ahead and what Norway bring and their strengths, so it is going to be a game that if we get a chance, we know that we have to take it.” When it comes to goals, Magill, who has 25 for her country, is in form. She scored twice for her club Birmingham City Women on Sunday – ironically past international team-mate Jackie Burns – and taking that form into Northern Ireland’s biggest games since the Euro 2022 Finals is perfectly timed for manager Tanya Oxtoby. “As a striker, it’s all about confidence,” adds Magill. “To get off the mark in open play – I had already scored a penalty – and be coming off the back of scoring two goals means confidence is high and, going into the game this week, we might only get one opportunity so, hopefully, that confidence will work in my favour.”
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For Makenzie Gilkison, spelling is such a struggle that a word like rhinoceros might come out as “rineanswsaurs” or sarcastic as “srkastik.” The 14-year-old from suburban Indianapolis can sound out words, but her dyslexia makes the process so draining that she often struggles with comprehension. “I just assumed I was stupid,” she recalled of her early grade school years. But assistive technology powered by artificial intelligence has helped her keep up with classmates. Last year, Makenzie was named to the National Junior Honor Society. She credits a customized AI-powered chatbot, a word prediction program and other tools that can read for her. “I would have just probably given up if I didn’t have them,” she said. Artificial intelligence holds the promise of helping countless other students with a range of visual, speech, language and hearing impairments to execute tasks that come easily to others. Schools everywhere have been wrestling with how and where to incorporate AI , but many are fast-tracking applications for students with disabilities. Getting the latest technology into the hands of students with disabilities is a priority for the U.S. Education Department, which has told schools they must consider whether students need tools like text-to-speech and alternative communication devices. New rules from the Department of Justice also will require schools and other government entities to make apps and online content accessible to those with disabilities. There is concern about how to ensure students using it — including those with disabilities — are still learning. Students can use artificial intelligence to summarize jumbled thoughts into an outline, summarize complicated passages, or even translate Shakespeare into common English. And computer-generated voices that can read passages for visually impaired and dyslexic students are becoming less robotic and more natural. “I’m seeing that a lot of students are kind of exploring on their own, almost feeling like they’ve found a cheat code in a video game,” said Alexis Reid, an educational therapist in the Boston area who works with students with learning disabilities. But in her view, it is far from cheating : “We’re meeting students where they are.” Ben Snyder, a 14-year-old freshman from Larchmont, New York, who was recently diagnosed with a learning disability, has been increasingly using AI to help with homework. “Sometimes in math, my teachers will explain a problem to me, but it just makes absolutely no sense,” he said. “So if I plug that problem into AI, it’ll give me multiple different ways of explaining how to do that.” He likes a program called Question AI. Earlier in the day, he asked the program to help him write an outline for a book report — a task he completed in 15 minutes that otherwise would have taken him an hour and a half because of his struggles with writing and organization. But he does think using AI to write the whole report crosses a line. “That’s just cheating,” Ben said. Schools have been trying to balance the technology’s benefits against the risk that it will do too much. If a special education plan sets reading growth as a goal, the student needs to improve that skill. AI can’t do it for them, said Mary Lawson, general counsel at the Council of the Great City Schools. But the technology can help level the playing field for students with disabilities, said Paul Sanft, director of a Minnesota-based center where families can try out different assistive technology tools and borrow devices. “There are definitely going to be people who use some of these tools in nefarious ways. That’s always going to happen,” Sanft said. “But I don’t think that’s the biggest concern with people with disabilities, who are just trying to do something that they couldn’t do before.” Another risk is that AI will track students into less rigorous courses of study. And, because it is so good at identifying patterns , AI might be able to figure out a student has a disability. Having that disclosed by AI and not the student or their family could create ethical dilemmas, said Luis Pérez, the disability and digital inclusion lead at CAST, formerly the Center for Applied Specialized Technology. Schools are using the technology to help students who struggle academically, even if they do not qualify for special education services. In Iowa, a new law requires students deemed not proficient — about a quarter of them — to get an individualized reading plan. As part of that effort, the state’s education department spent $3 million on an AI-driven personalized tutoring program. 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