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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Many online tools now allow teachers to create and have students play games individually, in teams, and for homework. Many also allow students to create their own games or flashcards. In this webinar, you will learn how to search for games or flashcard sets for study, develop games, and flashcard sets, and monitor progress (through formative assessment, for example) using one or several online tools including: Kahoot, Quizlet, Quizizz, and/or others.
We're all guilty of it. Responding to email, checking messages, doing some reading while holding a conversation or attending meeting. And students do the same, swearing they’re able to multi-task. Research proves that’s just not the case. This episode of “Your Edtech Questions” tackles the question of how educators can successfully address device distraction in the classroom. Guest Liz Kolb, Ph.D., educator and author of Learning First, Technology Second: The Educator’s Guide to Designing Authentic Lessons, shares the research that proves multi-tasking is unsuccessful, explains how it interrupts active listening and provides examples of the really smart things teachers are doing to manage devices in their classrooms. She also unpacks resources to help educators start having a conversation about device distraction and explains how educators can model responsible device use. 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.
System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) offers this webinar In this webinar in which viewers learn about two digital tools used for creating online assessment: Quizalize and Edpuzzle, and two user-friendly tools you can use to create customized assessments on your own: Google Forms Quiz and Padlet.
This article describes the Digital Literacy Action Plan, an instructional strategy designed to differentiate and increase learner agency. This article is written for adult basic education instructors who aim to integrate digital literacy skills into their instruction in a way that is meaningful to each learner and empowers learners to acquire digital skills autonomously.
This webinar presents best practices for anyone just getting started in the online environment. Review strategies and practices that contribute to effective, efficient and satisfying, teaching and learning experience for both instructors and students.
Assessments have the potential to be powerful tools for supporting the development of technology skills and digital resilience. The DRAW scan revealed a need for better understanding of existing assessments and how to use them, as well as new, asset-based assessments that measure digital resilience. An aligned and strategic approach to assessment would allow educators and program leadership, researchers, and policymakers to tailor instruction to the needs of learners, understand their progress, target resources where most needed, and signal mastery of skills to employers and other stakeholders. This deep dive explores practices and models for assessing digital skills and opportunities to improve assessment and skills validation in adult education.
The Digital Access and Resilience in Texas (DART) curriculum integrates beginning English language learning with foundational digital skills. The curriculum is intended to supplement existing English language instruction in lower-level adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. DART is an adaptation of the A-OK To Access curriculum developed for Tyson by the same authors.
The DART curriculum provides the foundation that lower-level English language learners need to recognize and type the wide variety of characters required for most online passwords. The curriculum focuses on teaching students the skills necessary to accomplish eight major "milestones" on the way to successfully creating and logging in and out of an online account.
This webinar provides guidelines on how to create and adapt learner activities to maximize reusability.
This Google Form survey helps assess the digital literacy and access of students. Use this form to explore their needs.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
The Top Tools for Learning List is compiled annually via a survey of learning professionals (and others in related areas) who are invited to nominate their Top 10 (digital) tools for learning. The list is organized by personal learning, workplace learning, and education, and the top tools are also categorized by tool type (e.g., office tools, content development tools, social and collaborative platforms, etc.) Each year, the site offers insights into trends as evidenced by resource submissions.
This webinar presents how to effectively use the smartphone in a classroom setting, not only with students, but for the teacher to be more effective and efficient with time in the classroom. This covers students/teachers using their smartphone for 24/7 engagement through various platforms.
During this webinar recording, listen to a deep dive into a handful of engaging, free reading resources that can be used to support evidence-based reading instruction (alphabetics, comprehension, vocabulary, comprehension) with learners of all levels. Explore these resources along with strategies for using them, learn practical tips for effective implementation, and consider how what you learn now can be used, not just in our current teaching and learning context, but incorporated into your future, everyday instructional practice.