{"id":1864,"date":"2022-11-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2022\/11\/01\/bring-presentations-to-life-with-powerpoint-live\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T18:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T01:42:15","slug":"bring-presentations-to-life-with-powerpoint-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2022\/11\/bring-presentations-to-life-with-powerpoint-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring presentations to life with PowerPoint Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Classrooms around the world contain students with very diverse abilities and needs, and research shows that this diversity has increased in recent years. For example, as of 2018 in the United States there were more than 5 million English as a second language (ESL) learners, accounting for approximately 10.2% of the total student population.1<\/sup>\u202fAccording to some estimates, that percentage could rise to 25% by 2025.2<\/sup>\u202fAdditionally, approximately 15% of all people in the U.S. have a disability3<\/sup>, and as of the 2020-21 school year, more than 7.2 million students received special education services.4<\/sup>\u202fThis highlights the importance of designing learning tools that can help students, teachers, and parents learn, understand, and communicate in ways that match their preferences and abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft Education is committed to doing our part to help schools achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal #4, to \u201censure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all,\u201d5<\/sup>\u202fand one way we do that is by developing tools to reduce barriers to success for all learners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest in our series of Accelerate Learning kits, \u201cReal-Time Translation in Live Presentations<\/a>,\u201d explores how artificial intelligence (AI) translation tools can be used to provide equitable learning for ESL speakers, or anyone with hearing or language processing difficulties. The translation feature available when activating \u201cLive Presentations\u201d in the PowerPoint web app is just one of many built-in features in\u202fMicrosoft 365 for education<\/a>\u202fthat can benefit users of all different experience levels and abilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve written about several other features including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n