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Launching a Digital Literacy Accelerator
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The Office of Educational Technology (OET) at the U.S. Department of Education is actively looking for ways to promote digital literacy. OET believes that one effective way to support digital literacy is through innovative educational technology (edtech) tools created by a diverse array of developers who have a range of different backgrounds, life experiences, and education.
This report, coauthored by OET and WestEd staff, is aimed at agencies interested in supporting edtech or digital literacy accelerators, as well as education leaders interested in supporting strategies to address misinformation.
This report examines the following questions about the DLA:
What did OET and WestEd learn from research and the current state of the field of digital literacy to develop and scale innovations?
What were the problems teams were trying to solve?
What did OET and WestEd learn when teams applied their innovation to the identified problem?
What are the barriers to new innovations in the digital literacy space?
What best practices can OET and WestEd extract from the accelerator and apply to future thinking?
Based on OET and WestEd’s work with the DLA, what recommendations do we have for federal agencies to support the field of digital literacy?
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The Rapid Response, Innovation, and Challenges of Sustainability in the Time of COVID-19: Reports from the Field
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A new report that explores how adult education programs have adapted over time to the constantly changing conditions in programs caused by ongoing but inconsistent and sporadic COVID-19 infections and local policies governing public health. The report also looks at lessons learned after more than a year of remote teaching.
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Digital Resilience in the American Workforce: Technical Assistance Pilot Program
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The Technical Assistant (TA) Pilot Program is a training program for instructors in adult digital literacy programs whose work is funded under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA), as well as state professional development leaders. The pilot offers participants an opportunity to engage in peer learning and develop plans for using materials created by the DRAW team to enhance digital literacy instruction and make supplementary resources available to adult education learners. This program will include a webinar, state and local courses, and coaching.
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Digital Skills Frameworks and Assessments: A Foundation for Understanding Adult Learners’ Strengths and Learning Needs
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The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) research teams are developing technology-supported learning and assessment tools and implementing curricula to help adult learners build digital skills. Throughout this work, each team has noted the importance of gaining a better understanding of the digital skills learners need to fully participate in the research projects. To that end, this Network Brief will introduce several widely used and relevant digital literacy frameworks and assessment strategies used in adult education.
The brief provides high-level descriptions of the following frameworks:
Northstar Digital Literacy standards
The ISTE SkillRise Profile of a Lifelong Learner
Seattle Digital Equity Initiative’s (SDEI) Digital Skills Framework
The Maryland Department of Labor/Adult Education’s Digital Literacy Framework for Adult Learners