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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: Literacy Gap Map
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For AEFL week, we’ve been sharing our top five resources! For our fourth resource, we’re sharing the Literacy Gap Map! 130 million Americans—54% of adults between the ages of 16-74—lack proficiency in literacy, essentially reading below the equivalent of a 6th grade level. The Barbara Bush Foundation’s Literacy Gap Map is an interactive map which allows users to identify the intersection between language, health, economic status, and literacy.
Literacy doesn't just impact reading. Health, finances, and household income are all dependent on literacy. By…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: Digital Skills Brief
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As a part of AEFL week, we’re sharing our top five resources throughout the week! For our third resource, we’re sharing the Digital Skills Frameworks and Assessments: A Foundation for Understanding Adult Learners’ Strengths and Learning Needs brief! CREATE research teams are developing technology-supported learning and assessment tools and implementing curricula to help adult learners build digital skills and noted the importance of gaining a better understanding of the digital skills learners need.
This brief introduces popular frameworks and assessment…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: TALK Podcasts
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For AEFL week, we’re sharing our top five resources throughout the week! For our second resource, we’re sharing the TALK Podcast! The TALK (Technology in Adult Learning Knowledge-Building) Podcast series features the highlights of the latest news, innovative research, and best practices in technology-enabled instruction for adult learners. Listen to experts in the field discuss ways they’re using technology to support adult teaching and learning.
This podcast aims to help practitioners, educators, researchers, and policy and funding stakeholders in their work…
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AEFL Week Resource Roundup: Edtech TA Library
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As part of AEFL week, we’re sharing our top five resources throughout the week! For our first resource, we’re sharing the Edtech Technical Assistance (TA) Library! This BRAND NEW resource aims to provide guidance to practitioners and adult education leaders on integrating or advancing instruction through edtech and other digital technology. Resources include technology integration and digital skills frameworks, technology adoption checklists, webinars highlighting promising resources and strategies, and technology enhanced lesson plans and guidance.
Whether…
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Mya Shaftel, CILIA-T research team member, interviewed by MPR News
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Check it out! Mya Shaftel, one of the adult educators developing content for the CILIA-T research team and a teacher at Literacy Minnesota, was recently interviewed by MPR News host Cathy Wurzer regarding upcoming changes to the US citizenship test.In the interview, Mya discusses the potential implications for both adult education providers and adult learners. The Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support (CILIA-T) team is proud to have Mya supporting the development of their curriculum.Read the article:…
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CREATE Presents at IDEAL Consortium's Annual Summer Institute
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Last week, Stephanie Cronen and Jen Vanek, PhD presented on the work of the CREATE Adult Skills Network at the IDEAL Consortium's Annual Summer Institute. We had a wonderful time connecting with adult education and digital learning leaders from different states.We shared one exciting update on a new resource collection, the Edtech Technical Assistance Library, that will launch next month during #AEFLweek! Keep an eye out for upcoming news on this exciting new resource!
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ALL IN Small Grants Research Initiative - Q&A Sessions
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World Education, on behalf of the Adult Literacy and Learning Impact Network (ALL IN), is leading a research initiative to support short-term community-engaged research projects that can lead to improvements in adult literacy instruction and programming. The goal is to support researcher-teacher partnerships to unearth innovative adult literacy instruction or programming. Join our info sessions to hear more about the request for proposals and the initiative timeline.
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Q&A sessions will take place:
July 27 – Thursday, 4:00 p.m. ETAugust 31 –…
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Call for Papers: Journal for Research on Adult Education Special Edition
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The Journal for Research on Adult Education is seeking submissions on their upcoming Special Issue on Basic and Language Education for Adults with Low Literacy Skills. The are looking for papers on the following topics:
program effectiveness and adult learners’ outcomes
teacher-learner interactions (e.g., teachers ́ skills of managing heterogeneous classes)
Readability of texts for adults who need to develop literacy skills in everyday life contexts
instructional materials and methods
identities of adult learners (e.g., sense of classroom belonging,…
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CREATE Adult Skills Network Goes to COABE 2023!
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The CREATE Adult Skills Network is headed to Atlanta next week for the COABE 2023 conference. Several of our research teams and partners will be there in person and remotely presenting on a range of topics. See the full list with time, room and description below. We look forward to seeing you in April!
CREATE ASN at COABE 2023 Presentation List
Monday, April 3 8:00am - 9:15am
Designing Digital Tasks for Adult Numeracy Learners to Solve Real-World Problems
The ability to apply math is an essential aspect of every adult’s life, but this…
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Announcement: IES Releases RFI on Topics To Address via the National Center for Education Research's R&D Centers
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The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently released a Request for Information (RFI) on Topics to Address via its National Center for Education Research (NCER). The NCER is required to support not less than 8 Research and Development Centers (R&D Centers) focused on one or more of 11 specified topics (see the list of topics included below or in the Background section of the RFI here). The R&D Centers produce and disseminate rigorous evidence and products that provide practical solutions to important educational problems in the United States. They…