How can I empower learners with choice?
Learn how digital technology can be used to support learner agency as they make choices over how, when and where to learn.
Student Engagement in Online Learning
This webinar presents best practices to promote student engagement in online learning. Learn about best practices for encouraging student engagement and research-based recommendations.
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Advancing Access & Digital Equity: Findings and Discussion
Digital divides reflect long standing inequities in American society, such as income and wealth gaps and uneven access to high-quality K-12 education.This deep dive shares findings related to advancing access and digital equity from the national landscape scan conducted for the DRAW initiative.
Move Forward with Mobile Learning - Instructional Support Webinar
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.
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Learner Variability Navigator
The goals for adult learning include being able to use literacy, numeracy, problem solving, communication, and digital skills effectively across contexts. Understanding the Learner Factors and strategies that impact adult literacies and how they connect to each other can help you build tools and lessons that support all learners. Learners thrive when their experience is personal and meaningful. This free tool helps you find research-based strategies that support the whole learner so you can create better learning experiences today.
Triple E Framework
A framework for educators to measure how well technology tools integrated into lessons are helping students engage in, enhance and extend learning goals. The Triple E Framework was designed for educators to easily evaluate how to select tools to meet their learning goals, and ultimate design learning experiences so the tools have a positive impact on student achievement and learning outcomes. The Triple E Framework is meant to be used as a coaching tool to support teachers in their instructional choices around and with technology tools.
Distance Education Strategies and Solutions
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…
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Digital Literacy Goals Survey MD
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
Integrating Google Applications on a Weebly Site
In this Distance Education Strategy Session from the EdTech Center @ World Education, Kristin Klas and Laura Tamali from St. Paul Adult Basic Education (MN) share strategies for using multiple google applications integrated on a Weebly site to support distance education.
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Instructional Approaches, Models, and Practices Brief
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.