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.
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One component of the learner experience includes an understanding of their digital skills and digital tools. These surveys were designed by the YWCA National Capital Area program to engage and process new learners during the intake process. All of the surveys are openly available and can be adapted for your programming: Distance Learning Technology Access Survey, Online Learning Readiness Survey, and Motivation Inventory.
This webinar, hosted by the EdTech Center at World Education featured Jennifer Maddrell. This webinar provides guidance on how to determine what open educational resources are relevant to use in your classroom.
Do you know about Google Jamboards? Pamela Jo Wilson, Adult ESOL Program Curriculum Support Specialist for Palm Beach County, FL loves using them for collaborative learning in her ESOL classroom. Hear how she uses Jamboards and other Google tools help students contextualize and learn vocabulary; practice asking questions and writing answers; identify parts of speech and lots more. And, when she’s done, she uses Google Classroom, Google Sites, and other tools to save and share what students have done with each other. To jump directly to "How can you use Jamboard with learners?", use the hyperlinks in the webinar description with video bookmarks.
In this webinar, Sherry Lehane from Providence Public Library shares her work on adapting and optimizing teacher created material for mobile instruction; Jeff Goumas of CrowdED Learning shares tools and strategies to help you organize and share free, mobile friendly content with learners.Tiffany Brand from Dover Adult Learning Center in New Hampshire shares goal-setting strategies and tools for learners using mobile learning apps.
This resource is specially designed to provide practical ideas and suggestions for instructors who recognize the ever-increasing need of all adult learners to develop digital literacy skills. In this resource, developing digital literacy is always integrated into relevant, effective instruction as a tool to learning and functioning in real-life situations with which students will be confronted. In the explanations and examples provided, technology is introduced into instruction not merely because it may be new or different but in response to clearly defined course and lesson objectives. The intention is to offer numerous practical examples that can serve as a starting place for instructors who are looking to enhance English language acquisition (ELA) instruction while addressing an important need of their students.
Do you want your students to really learn vocabulary? Word knowledge is a strong predictor of academic success, and through effective vocabulary instruction, students can develop literacy, retain what they learn, and use new vocabulary effectively. Participants will learn a process for teaching vocabulary that, when infused with technology, enhances engagement in students as well as vocabulary production and retention.
CrowdEd Learning, a World Education Initiative has created a series of tools to help instructors and adult education programs plan for effective instruction. This resource, the Skill Directory, allows you to explore academic, workplace, and lifelong learning competencies and provides examples of high-quality open educational resources to be used in the classroom.
The Technology-Based Coaching in Adult Education (TBCAE) Toolkit provides meaningful benefits to AE staff by offering: A process for integrating text messaging into AE program, services as key to supporting learners, persistence, and learning; and tools to plan the intentional use of individualized and personalized text messaging as proactive communication that anticipates and addresses challenges that learners encounter. The report provides whether or not TBCAE enables higher persistence in adult education in Oregon, Arizona, Indiana, and Kentucky.
This course was developed by the EdTech Center @ World Education with support from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education. This course was designed for education providers and practitioners teaching adult basic academic skills, ESOL, and literacy at a distance and/or through blended learning; it provides strategies and resources that are essential for both setting up and implementing distance education or teaching with a blended approach. The course contains the following modules: Getting started with Distance and Blended Learning; Outreach, Screening, & Orientation: Supporting Distance Learners from the Start; Effective Distance and Blended Learning Instruction; and Assessment.
Learn about the potential uses of ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI) technology that allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot, in the classroom.
In this recorded training, participants learn specific examples of how to integrate everyday mobile device applications into learning objectives; participants then discuss additional activities to enhance student performance through use of the apps
Michael Bonner, a teacher, author and speaker, has attracted much attention for his innovative teaching methods at an elementary school in North Carolina where the vast majority of students come from low-income homes. Listen as he talks about the strategies and tools he and his colleagues to think through supporting innovative technology support and instruction. Learn about their experimental, collaborative process in K-12 education for collaboration and communication. Please note: You must select the podcast from the list in Buzzsprout to listen as it does not automatically pull to the podcast described above.