Edtech TA Library

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The aim of the CREATE Edtech Technical Assistance (TA) Library is 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.

Each submitted resource has been evaluated by internal subject matter experts from World Education to determine their viability for inclusion, their alignment to one or more technical assistance categories (informed by prior research and the expertise represented in the CREATE Adult Skills Network), and their quality of content, structure, and guidance. The technical assistance categories in this library include:

  • Planning technology use;
  • Communicating with learners;
  • Managing content/instruction;
  • Determining instructional content;
  • Providing instruction through different modes; and
  • Assessment

You can locate resources through the categories or by keyword search.

We welcome feedback on our contributions, categorization, and tagging. To report a broken link for any of our resources, please click on the “submit feedback” button seen above and fill out the form.

Do consider nominating a technical assistance resource, by clicking on the "submit new resource" button seen above and fill out the form. Submissions are reviewed monthly and will be added to the library if approved.

Informational Material

This guide is designed to provide a start-to-finish overview of the steps you might take to run your own EdTech Maker Space. The EdTech Maker Space is designed to add a layer of engagement around teacher professional development through awareness that the effort put forth by participants will result in meaningful contributions, reusable learning objects, to other educators.

2022
Guide
Instructional Material

The Teaching with Technology tool is designed to help adult education teachers locate lesson plans that can be used as-is or modified for use with your learners. The lesson plans integrate technology tools in a way that engages students, enhances their learning, and extends their learning beyond the class.

2022
Collection
Instructional Material

Do you find it challenging to figure out how to build digital skills into the flow of your class? You are not alone! This workshop covers tools that teachers and advisors can use for common instructional and assessment activities. You will explore the EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit which is designed to help you find strategies, resources, and activities to support meaningful edtech integration and digital skill development.

2023
Webinar
Informational Material

Students have individual learning plans, but how do their digital literacy plans fit in? In this webinar, presenters discuss a system for setting up such a plan. Look at tools for figuring out how to match learners' work, education, or other goals to the relevant digital literacy skills they need to reach them, as well as learning resources to help them develop those skills.

2020
Webinar
Informational Material

This checklist can be used to develop a new distance education program or those looking to refine an existing distance education program. It doesn't follow the order learners typically participate in the program (recruitment, orientation, instruction), rather, it starts with a focus on the learners and their goals. Then can be used to plan instruction based on the target audience and develop orientation and recruitment strategies once the specifics of the skills and technology needed to succeed in the instruction are more clearly known.

2022
Guide
Instructional Material

Students can arrive to our classes with a range of computer skills. This can be challenging to manage! Hear how Catholic Charities, Worcester Public Schools, and MassLINKS adult education staff address this using a variety of approaches. These include an in-person “boot camp” before the semester starts, an in-class intensive focus on digital skills at the beginning of the semester, and a fully online training. Using these approaches can help students feel confident that they have the skills to handle the digital tools used in their classes.

2023
Webinar
Instructional Material

As you think about integrating digital literacy into core instructional practices, project-based learning (PBL) can be a powerful approach to customizing teaching and learning that responds to your students’ needs and interests. In this workshop, learn about ways you can develop and use PBL activities that address adult learning and development theory and promote persistence.

2023
Webinar
Instructional Material

Are you looking for ways to help all adult learners develop the digital skills needed to achieve their personal, civic, educational, and career goals? Do you wonder how to differentiate digital skills instruction according to student needs and goals? Do you need more resources that support your efforts to teach digital skills? In this webinar, explore three approaches to teaching digital literacy, as well as robust tools and resources that support those approaches.

2023
Webinar
Instructional Material

Teaching online is much different than teaching face-to-face in a traditional classroom. This webinar discusses the differences of remote teaching, what it takes to be a good online teacher, what technical skills are needed, and where you can find additional help for all of the above.

2020
Webinar
Instructional Material

Guest presenter, Charlotte Parliament, Literacy and Essential Skills Program Coordinator at Simcoe County District School Board, shares how she uses Google Apps, such as Google Sites, Forms, Sheets and Docs, to set up and manage intake, as well as digital skills and learning styles assessments online.

2017
Webinar
Instructional Material

In this webinar, Jen Vanek from World Education highlights key evaluation criteria teachers might consider when choosing a mobile app to support instruction; Tiffany Brand from Dover Adult Learning Center shares her strategies for involving learners in evaluation after use; and EdTech Center Advisor Jeff Goumas from CrowdED Learning leads a discussion on the importance of establishing metrics for evaluating app effectiveness based on your goals.

2020
Webinar
Informational Material

In this webinar, hear from panelists share their experiences and describe the models they use to teach in-person and online. Hear about strategies they have adapted and adopted and the lessons they have learned. They explain: The technology they use and related costs, other supports they have put in place to effectively support and engage both online and in-person students, and protocols and supports that help students access learning and understand expectations.

2021
Webinar