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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Digital literacy is vital to adult learners’ lives, education, and employment, as well as to staff in their work with students. This webinar is facilitated by Jamie Harris, who co-authored the Maryland Digital Literacy Framework. She describes the structure of the Framework and how you can use it to inform planning and instruction. She explains how you can use the readily available, practical examples in the Instructors’ Guide for integrating digital literacy instruction in your classroom.
This presentation will demonstrate how to create assessments for students using Zoom and Google. The same techniques are transferable and can be applied to other online meeting and cloud tools. Step-by-step instructions to create interactive, authentic assessments for adult learners will be demonstrated. In addition, the presenter will familiarize participants with other types of formative and summative assessments.
During this webinar recording, presenters discuss considerations around free edtech tools that support communication, content, and learner management, to ensure the tools and strategies you have developed to continue learning today can carry over into our new realities of tomorrow... regardless of what that looks like!
This webinar hosted by Proliteracy and World Education features the Digital Literacy Action Plan (DLAP) created by Rachel Riggs, ESL Instructional Specialist, Frederick Community College. Rachel discusses the challenges digital literacy presents along with how the DLAP strategy helped her overcome those challenges. She also shares the tools she uses to implement the DLAP in her classroom. Participants had an opportunity to ask questions. Link to resources: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gs9ks0afdjny8z7/AADTCA9cCZWfSTp90WT2ZCZVa?dl…
In this webinar, you tour the Career Planning and Job Search Resources for Advisors collection, its features, and examine tools and resources that are the most popular among advisors. This webinar highlights tools that based on your advising needs and goals, can help you to select resources that meet your learners’ needs.
This guide provides educators with links to websites where they can find free images, along with information regarding the licensing of the image repositories. It also provides guidance for the use of logos and screenshots.
Yes, there are ways you can assess the digital literacy skills of your beginning English language learners! During this webinar, you will learn about teacher-tested tools and approaches you can use right now and when planning your program’s next new student intake event. In a combination of discussion and experiential activities, you will explore assessment tools and approaches that can help you and your beginner English language learners gain an understanding of their digital literacy skills. With students’ assessment information, you can: Understand their needs before class starts to inform teacher and program planning and to ensure high-quality experiences, work with them to set digital literacy goals, and document skill development so they, and you, can celebrate their progress.
Adult students need a strong vocabulary foundation in order to develop their literacy and use their English effectively in their many roles: employees, parents, and community members. In this webinar, you learn a research–proven six-step process infused with technology to help students not only better learn and retain vocabulary but also move new terminology into their productive vocabulary knowledge. You will also be shown and learn how to use select resources appropriate to each step of direct vocabulary instruction. Please note this webinar is 2 hours long.
This Google Form can be used to survey the digital literacy goals of students. This survey is based on the Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners from the Department of Labor in Maryland. This form is one step in creating a Digital Literacy Action Plan (DLAP). See the whole process of developing a DLAP here: https://wakelet.com/wake/oE8aSwlIj5IskWqbMqnug
In this webinar, Jen Vanek from World Education outlines the steps for planning effective outreach using a communications planning template and will share how one organization uses a Facebook Messenger pop-up to support automated communication; EdTech Center Advisor Jeff Goumas from CrowdED Learning examines various free tools for communications to be leveraged based on your organization’s goals and end user access; and Melanie Sampson, the Content Director at Literacy Work’s Clear Language Lab shares key principles of plain language that you can incorporate into your communication strategies as well as resources to further your use of these principles.
There are many ways advisors and coaches support students, and doing so in our current situation with limited or no in-person contact can require rethinking. Some of the major supports advisors provide include keeping in touch with students, sharing resources, referrals and materials with students, and completing education and career planning activities. This workshop will address the challenges of delivering these supports remotely by suggesting strategies and tools for online and offline remote advising.
This publication shares findings from the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative landscape scan and responds to questions raised in interviews with learners and practitioners about how educators can best support adult learners in developing the digital skills required to secure a better future for themselves.