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 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.

Chances are that you have current students, staff, and others who may join your program in the future with hand motor, visual, or auditory difficulties. For this reason, it is good practice to know how to be inclusive so that program and class materials are readable and program digital devices are navigable. It’s also important to understand how to support students’ use of their own devices. In this webinar, learn about basic settings and instructions for creating equitable access at your program and in your classes.

Do you have educational technology fatigue? Do you struggle to decide which webinars to attend, or which tools to learn? During this presentation, learn how to evaluate EdTech tools, and begin to create your EdTech toolkit. Every tool is not designed to be utilized in every class. Watch to figure out how to plan consistent, intentional, and proficient lesson plans. Link to Wakelet: https://wakelet.com/wake/2Ohw7UqRayqLUZOQ0LCUr?utm_medium=Referral&utm_…

Explore this curated resource list, including YouTube videos, podcasts, and articles to learn more about generative AI in education. The list is organized by key topics including The Basics, Power of Open (open source, creative works), Making it Work (applications in education), and Humans in Focus (ethics and equity). These categories reflect considerations when learning about or planning to use AI in instruction.

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.

Teachers, advisors, tutors, and directors need to communicate with their students outside of in-person class meetings as well as for distance education classes. Keeping in touch and continuing instruction are more important than ever. What digital tools can help us continue to provide real-time practice and support? What asynchronous communication tools are most effective to allow people to participate when schedules permit? And how can we choose the best ones to use according to staff and student needs? This webinar addresses four tool’s essential features, ways to utilize the tools for keeping in touch and for instruction, and how to select a tool that is the best match for you and your students.

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.

The System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES) offers this webinar to address these questions: What digital tools can help us continue to provide real-time and asynchronous practice and support? And how can we choose ones that are the best to use according to your staff and student needs?