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Photos of Black and Brown people: https://nappy.co/

Photos of women of color in tech: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wocintechchat/

Xavier Muñoz, Virginia/Illinois

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This resource provides images of words on chalkboard, clipboard, cleaning images and words on highway signs.
The images on this web site were originally created by photographer Nicholas (Nick) Youngson and are now owned by RM Media Ltd who offer a small percentage of their stock images for free use, even commercial use, under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license - please view license details and FAQ under each image.

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The AI session Joey is going to is part of a 4-Friday EdTech Bytes  https://edtech.worlded.org/events/edtech-bytes-generative-artificial-intelligence/

EdTech Bytes webinar series on generative artificial intelligence each Friday in May at 1pm.
5/5  Zero to Hero - ChatGPT was released in November of 2022. Get caught up with what has happened since.
5/12  Power of Open - OpenAI leads the charge in generative AI. Why is "open" so significant?
5/19  Making it Work - Adult educators and workforce developers are already using these tools. Hear their stories!
5/26  Humans in Focus - Developments in AI are happening fast. What will it mean to keep equity and ethics in focus?

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This is a great company for diversity, equity, and inclusion work.

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Research-Based Resources and Professional Development to Increase Achievement of Adults with Learning Disabilities Learning to Achieve is a suite of resources designed to build teacher effectiveness in providing instruction for adults with learning disabilities (LD).

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Antiracist Praxis Study Circle - facilitator guide and materials (ATLAS)

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Antiracist Praxis Study Circle Facilitator Guide

Author: Cydnee Sanders, MA TESOL, Hamline University

Publication date: February 2022

Study Circle Description

Many of us have heard the terms antiracist and DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), but how do we actually implement these large frameworks into our adult English classrooms? This study circle goes beyond defining antiracism and explores how the research around Translanguaging by Ofelia García (2017) and Culturally Responsive Teaching by Zaretta Hammond (2015) provides us with tools to change the way we approach teaching.

The study circle is not intended to be a basic "what is racism" professional development activity, so we have some working assumptions and hope those interested in joining can agree to start with these foundational beliefs:

Racism is systemic. White supremacy and systemic racism are leading problems in our education system. These systems are especially harmful to people of color and the English language learners we serve.

Identifying and addressing implicit bias is paramount to this work. It is a personal journey, and we all enter this work together from different places.

It is not enough to be "not racist"; we have to be intentionally antiracist.

We are willing to work in a collaborative environment and to hold each other accountable.

Objectives

Clear objectives are identified for each topic, but the overall objectives of this study circle include the following.
Participants will be able to:

1. Articulate a working definition of antiracism in the classroom and why it is imperative to implement these practices.

2. Each week, share 2-3 antiracist strategies from the week's topic they are interested in trying. Try or deeply reflect on 1 strategy to try in their classroom.

3. Implement antiracist practices, such as the translanguaging roles, in order to better serve adult learners.

4. Reflect on how implementation went to continually improve and make practices sustainable.

5. Connect with fellow Adult Education practitioners and create a supportive environment that fosters antiracist classrooms and workplaces.

Timeframe

This study circle is designed to take place during 5 meetings of 2 hours each, and over a minimum of 5 weeks. It is recommended to have the meetings over a longer period of time so that participants have time to do pre-meeting activities and reflection in between meetings.

Study Circle Facilitation & Participation

The Facilitator Guide: Antiracist Praxis in the Adult English Classroom provides step-by-step suggestions for conducting a study circle no matter where your program is based. The Guide, along with all study circle materials organized by meeting, can be found within the Antiracist Praxis Study Circle folder that is linked below.

Are you using the Facilitator Guide or any materials from this study circle? Please fill out this brief, 4-question contact form to help us keep track of where the materials are being used!
The study circle creator's contact information is also located in the form.

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About the NRS Online Courses

The NRS support project developed nine (9) online courses for adult education practitioners to learn about NRS and WIOA requirements and strategies to improve NRS data quality and use. Since it is not always possible to attend training in person, these courses are designed to offer flexibility and convenience. NRS online courses are offered through the Moodle learning management platform. Please find links to the left to either (a) create a new log-in to access the courses for the first time, or to (b) enter your established log-in information so you can continue working on a course you have started or continue to take other courses within the course catalog. To the right, find guidance for professional development staff to assist practitioners in the best use of the online courses.

Who Is Eligible to Take an NRS Online Course?

The online training courses are designed for state adult education staff and local adult education program administrators and staff.

What Will I Learn From NRS Online Courses?

You will learn about NRS and WIOA requirements and how to improve the quality of NRS data collection and usage. You also will become familiar with the development and purpose of the NRS.

Course

Short Description

Time Commitment

NRS Myth Busters

The NRS Myth Busters course is divided into five parts, providing a detailed model and approach to assist state and local adult education programs to use their NRS data to "bust" common myths and to conduct research related to adult education students, teachers, or programs. approximately 2 hours 20 minutes to 3 hours.

Approximately 2 hours 20 minutes to 3 hours

Learning to Be an NRS Data Detective

Learn the art of being a data detective and using data to monitor performance, understand programs, and plan and evaluate program improvements efforts.

Approximately
3 to 5 hours

Facilitated Online and Blended Courses

Facilitated online courses are offered each year through the NRS support project for state teams and individuals. These courses are multi-week asynchronous courses guided by NRS project staff and other experts. State directors must nominate and approve staff to participate in these facilitated and project-based learning experiences.

Blended training includes both an online component and face-to-face events with other practitioners. The online portion of these trainings are asynchronous, allowing individuals and teams to participate at their own pace. State teams must apply to participate in these trainings. State teams are always selected and approved by the state director.

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4.5 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere - Pixabay - Pixabay

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Find your perfect royalty-free image or video to download and use. ✓ Royalty-free ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.

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Use Loom to record quick videos of your screen and cam. Explain anything clearly and easily - and skip the meeting. An essential tool for hybrid workplaces.

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Adult Career Pathways Curriculum Library from ATLAS

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Confused about Adult Career Pathways and transitions terminology? You're not alone! Check out this handy ACP glossary.

This user-friendly 10-page checklist is designed to help determine the extent to which a newly developed or existing ACP program meets the requirements for career pathways as outlined in WIOA.

This 10-minute video from WorkCred.org breaks down the differences among credentials, certification, certificates, and licenses. There is also a handout from WorkCred.org that breaks down credentials, certification, certificates, and licenses, including how they are awarded, what they indicate, and several examples.

The Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) supported development of this Integrated Education and Training (IET) Toolkit to assist state and local adult education staff to plan, design, implement, and evaluate effective IET programs that are responsive to state and local labor market demands and fulfill the requirements...

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Free for Nonprofits

Google Workplace (formerly GSuite) is provided free to qualified nonprofit organizations. The platform includes Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, and Google Meet. Learn more and apply "

Every nonprofit needs a collection of branded assets to use in communications and presentations. Google Slides is an easy-to-use platform to create slide presentations similar to PowerPoint. It is cloud-based making template sharing with your entire team or, perhaps, guest speakers simple and convenient. Here, we are going to show you how to create a master template in Google Slides for use in organization materials and presentation slide decks.

Step 1: Open Google Slides and click Blank to create a new document.

Step 2: Give your template a name then choose Slide from the menu toolbar. In the dropdown menu, choose Edit master.

Step 3: Here, you can edit fonts, background, logo, or add standard text like a footer to all slides or individual slide layouts. Inside the Edit Master workspace, a new toolbar will appear allowing you to add a background image or color.

Step 4: After making all the desired changes to your template, click the X in the top right corner to close the template editor. Now you can use every customized slide for presentations created by your organization. The last part will be saving your new design as a template for your whole team to use. To do this, go back to the main Google Slides page by clicking the slide icon in the top-left corner.

Step 5: In the main Google Slides, click Template gallery in the top right corner to open your organization's personal template gallery.

Step 6: In the popup, click Select a presentation and choose the new template you just made. If you already put that template to use in a presentation, select the box next to Submit a copy of this file instead of the original, so each time the template is used, team members may add new content. To access this template in the future, go back to the template gallery and select the template to create a new presentation without altering the design you just made. You may also edit this template any time by selecting the three dots > Edit.

Does your team need help to create templates and brand assets for your organization? NOPI is here to help with pro bono and low-cost support for nonprofits in need.

References
Edit master slides in a presentation - Google Workspace Learning Center. (2021). Google.com. https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/10164039?hl=en

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Free for Nonprofits

Google Workplace (formerly GSuite) is provided free to qualified nonprofit organizations. The platform includes Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Drive, and Google Meet. Learn more and apply "

Every nonprofit needs a collection of branded assets to use in communications and presentations. Google Slides is an easy-to-use platform to create slide presentations similar to PowerPoint. It is cloud-based making template sharing with your entire team or, perhaps, guest speakers simple and convenient. Here, we are going to show you how to create a master template in Google Slides for use in organization materials and presentation slide decks.

Step 1: Open Google Slides and click Blank to create a new document.

Step 2: Give your template a name then choose Slide from the menu toolbar. In the dropdown menu, choose Edit master.

Step 3: Here, you can edit fonts, background, logo, or add standard text like a footer to all slides or individual slide layouts. Inside the Edit Master workspace, a new toolbar will appear allowing you to add a background image or color.

Step 4: After making all the desired changes to your template, click the X in the top right corner to close the template editor. Now you can use every customized slide for presentations created by your organization. The last part will be saving your new design as a template for your whole team to use. To do this, go back to the main Google Slides page by clicking the slide icon in the top-left corner.

Step 5: In the main Google Slides, click Template gallery in the top right corner to open your organization's personal template gallery.

Step 6: In the popup, click Select a presentation and choose the new template you just made. If you already put that template to use in a presentation, select the box next to Submit a copy of this file instead of the original, so each time the template is used, team members may add new content. To access this template in the future, go back to the template gallery and select the template to create a new presentation without altering the design you just made. You may also edit this template any time by selecting the three dots > Edit.

Does your team need help to create templates and brand assets for your organization? NOPI is here to help with pro bono and low-cost support for nonprofits in need.

References
Edit master slides in a presentation - Google Workspace Learning Center. (2021). Google.com. https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/10164039?hl=en

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Through the LINCS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, self-paced ONLINE COURSES, and searchable RESOURCES, adult education practitioners nationwide harness the power of collaboration and sharing to improve educational outcomes.

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Literary Information and Communication Systems

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I created this resource because I feel strongly that we (as professional developers) need to advocate for upskilling our staff to meet the needs of today's learners, especially in terms of building digital resilience.

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Laurie Martin, Illinois

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Standards lead to environments in which educators and students have equitable access to powerful learning.
Hover over and click the graphic to explore the standards in more detail and navigate through the site.

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LINCS- Digital Resilience in the American Workforce

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Building Skills and Literacy for Equitable Advancement

September 2021

Technology is integral to nearly every aspect of our daily lives, including the way we learn and work. Therefore, everyone must develop digital resilience-the awareness, skills, agility, and confidence necessary to be empowered users of new technologies, actively participate in society, and adapt to the labor market's ever-changing demands for digital expertise. To ensure that learners achieve digital resilience, educators must develop programming that integrates and applies digital skills content that's immediately relevant yet forward-looking and designed for use in multiple contexts.

Yet research shows that nearly 32 million Americans struggle to use a computer, and half of all Americans say they are not confident using technology to learn. Moreover, many adult education instructors have not been trained in best practices for offering digital literacy instruction to learners. Persistent gaps in access to technology and opportunities to develop digital skills exacerbate societal disparities, disproportionately impacting Black learners and workers and other people of color. This digital divide threatens to impede economic recovery efforts, as more than 8 in 10 mid-level jobs require digital skills.

To help adult education practitioners improve their ability to support learners who struggle to fully engage in tasks that demand use of digital technologies, JFF and World Education, with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, have launched a new initiative called Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW). Through DRAW, we aim to do the following:

Support professional development that enables teachers to be strategic and learner-focused in their lesson planning and instruction

Support adult education programs in designing effective, flexible technology-enabled education and support services

Provide state Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA) funders and their professional development providers with models, guidance, and resources for supporting programs that sustain and expand digital literacy efforts

As part this new undertaking, we will provide the field with flexible, evidence-based, and piloted strategies and materials that help teachers build the digital literacy and digital resilience of adult learners. These efforts will help to ensure that adult learners can obtain the technical skills necessary for postsecondary education and training, employment, civic engagement, and economic self-sufficiency.

Together, and in partnership with practitioners across the country, we will do the following:

Conduct a landscape scan to identify and curate existing resources for assessing and developing digital literacy skills and resilience

Co-create additional resources to fill gaps identified in the landscape scan

Develop a digital library to pull resources together in user-friendly, flexible formats with actionable strategies that work with diverse populations of adult learners, including beginning level English learners

Train adult education professionals in how to integrate high-quality resources into their instruction

Digital Digest

The following blog series will be sharing lessons learned from a national landscape scan conducted by the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) project. The goal of DRAW is to better prepare and support adult education practitioners to teach foundational digital skills and address barriers learners face when using digital technologies.

1. Putting Digital Literacy and Digital Resilience into Frame - Posted April 28, 2022

2. Digital Digest: The Digital Skills Library - Posted May 11, 2022

3. Advancing Access and Digital Equity: Challenges and Solutions- Posted June 16, 2022

4. D igital Digest: Selecting an Assessment for Digital Literacy- Posted June 23, 2022

Publications and Resources

Landscape Scan

In the first year of the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative, Jobs for the Future (JFF), World Education, and Safal Partners launched a landscape scan to better understand what training resources and approaches are most relevant for educators seeking to increase foundational digital literacy and digital resilience for an adult learner population. To learn more about DRAW's findings and to read the landscape scan visit: lincs.ed.gov/state-resources/federal-initiatives/draw/landscape

Deep Dives and Workbooks

This series of deep dives into the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) findings, from our national landscape scan on adult digital literacy, offer a closer look into resources and approaches for adult educators to use in the classroom. Explore the chapters of the DRAW landscape scan for a robust exploration of invaluable resources for digital literacy, instruction, and resilience.

How You Can Get Involved

Ongoing:

You can stay connected to DRAW through the LINCS Integrating Technology group and the Advancing Equity in Digital Learning; Employment Tech for Adults Listserv.

Fall 2023: Technical Assistance Program

The DRAW Technical Assistant (TA) 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 program 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.

Call for Program Participants

State adult education programs that are eligible for funding under of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA)-Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act-are invited to apply to participate in the Technical Assistance (TA) Program.

Please note that only the state director (or a designee) can apply. We recommend that the state's professional development leader help complete the application and that program leaders identify qualified instructors for participation.

Instructors and state leads who participate in the program will learn how to integrate DRAW materials, methods, activities, and tools into adult education programs and professional development trainings. The application opens on June 1, 2023, and closes on June 22, 2023.

This program is free for participating states and programs. Please review the overview document for further details. If you have any questions, please email digitalskills@jff.org. Decisions will be announced July 10, 2023.

The application takes about 21 minutes to complete. We recommend that you draft and save your responses in a Word document like the one linked here. When you're ready to submit your application, you can copy your responses from the document and paste them into the application.

Application Overview

Learn everything you need to know about the TA Program, the application process, and important dates in this application overview.

Adult education professionals will do the following in the Technical Assistance Program:

Learn how to navigate the wide field of digital literacy resources and how to locate the resources they need through the Digital Skills Library.

Apply DRAW digital literacy instructional strategies and resources into their programs with the support of an instructional coach.

Engage in the Literacy Information and Communication System (LINCS) community technical assistance and professional development training.

Receive professional development support that enables them to be strategic and learner-focused in their lesson planning and instruction.

Professional Development Resources

The DRAW team will post an asynchronous webinar for state adult education directors and state professional development leaders on how to apply for this professional development opportunity. The link to the presentation and slides will be available for download on June 8th. Previous pilot webinar recordings and are available for your review.

Key Partners

JFF
World Education, Inc.
Safal Partners
Performance Excellence Partners
Rock Creek Video Production

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Building Skills and Literacy for Equitable Advancement September 2021

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We used Edpuzzle to show a video during a PD webinar. We embedded questions in the video for discussion at key points. We didn't have to keep going in and out of a video and slides to have participants answer questions--we stayed in EdPuzzle.
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Want to test what you know? Complete any of the following online assessments.

If you want to save your results to a Northstar location,

If you are not part of a Northstar location yet, but would like to earn a certificate for passing the assessments, find a Northstar location near you.

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Research-based strategies for retention that are simple and easy to apply - presented as a learning community in a Canvas course shell, so it's easily replicable by anyone! Anita Kerr, Illinois

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Since AI is trending but can seem overwhelming, especially for adult educators and students that are understandably a bit tech-fatigued, I've create a getting started guide that I hope is a simple and accessible starting point (including prompts that can be copy/pasted into ChatGPT or Bard).

What I'm wondering is if this is a good starting point. Would you share this with teachers and program administrators as a go-to guide for getting started? Why or why not? How can we make this more useful?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-potential-chatgpt-guide-lifelong-learners-joey-lehrman

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If it seems like everyone is talking about ChatGPT and other new artificial intelligence tools, you aren't imagining it - in just a few months since its debut, the new AI tool has been used by over 100 million users - a reach that Gmail took over 5 years to achieve.

If you haven't yet jumped headfirst into the AI party, I'll try to explain generally what it is, and then suggest how it might be used in adult education settings.

The Basics

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is what's called "generative AI." That's a complicated way of saying a type of artificial intelligence that can generate new data or output based on patterns it has learned from existing data. The technology can be used for a variety of applications, such as creating new music or art, generating realistic images or videos, or writing articles and stories.

Where can I find ChatGPT? How much does it cost?

The tool is free and available here. Note that you will need to create an account and verify a phone number. There are paid versions that allow for faster response times and more complex applications, but, if you are just getting started, the free version is still quite powerful and useful.

Is ChatGPT the only option??

Nope. ChatGPT is one of many new AI tools. So if you'd like to explore other options, consider:

Bard, Google's version

Bing Chat from Microsoft (which is powered by ChatGPT)

You.com offers an AI-powered chatbot

Or any number of popular apps that are starting to integrate AI, including

Why explore AI?

Technology will continue to change the way we learn, create, and communicate.I believe it's essential to work with, not against, new digital tools. Here are some reasons:

First, the tool may be able to help you save time. Teachers all around the world are trying it out to help them draft lesson plans and emails, or to create writing for students to analyze.

Second, AI might help you better support students. Imagine it's 1999 and you decided to ignore the internet because it seemed like a fad. If we explore the tool now, we can help adult learners understand its potential and leverage it as part of their own lifelong learning process.

As Rachel Riggs at World Education notes, we should not be gatekeepers of new tech, but rather help our students and colleagues engage in nuanced conversations about the opportunities and limitations of this seemingly powerful new tool.

Is AI perfect? What are the concerns?

One primary concern floating around is plagiarism. As you've probably seen, some K12 and universities are banning it entirely. The bans are concerning to me, but that's a topic for another day.

There are also concerns over accuracy and biased data sets.

As my new friend and colleague Christopher Lafayette notes, ChatGPT is a somewhat unique technology because it was not extensively improved before being made available for public use. Instead, its development team, OpenAI, released it in its current state to see how people would use it. In other words, the tool will continue to evolve based on how we use it. ChatGPT is not perfect, and may provide incorrect responses, broken links, or unreliable data.

But what trains the systems in the first place?: Data models. And there can be biases in those data sets, and how those biases can be reinforced is another concern for the public.

As we figure out how to integrate AI into our classrooms and workflows, we must talk critically about these issues with students.It's crucial to approach conversations with ChatGPT discerningly. For me, this is similar to how we should approach any other digital tool: we don't teach students to mindlessly trust Google or Wikipedia or YouTube, but rather use critical thinking and analysis to evaluate anything (and everything) on the web.

Yea but is AI just a shiny new toy that isn't actually useful?

The short answer is that I'm not sure we know yet. That's why we need to learn about and try using it!

It's certainly already been useful for me. I'm using ChatGPT as a starting point for a lot of my work. Note that I never simply copy and paste responses. Rather, I use ChatGPT to generate ideas, which I then review and modify as necessary. That approach can be quite useful for getting started with a task rather than staring at a blank sheet of paper..

In early April, I sent a survey to colleagues around the country. Here's what I found from ~200 Adult Education teachers, coaches, and administrators:

90% had heard of ChatGPT

85% believed it could be useful for students or within their own workflows

30% had tried using it

The contrast between the first two data points and the last felt striking: we have this seemingly incredible new tool that our colleagues believe could be useful, yet people aren't exactly experimenting with it. Why?

Remember that ChatGPT already has 100 million users. That's a lot of people. So I wonder: are adult educators slow to explore (and embrace) new technology? If so, and you want to try to change that mindset, let's work together. Where do we start?

Creative starting points

If you are ready to get started with ChatGPT (or another tool), I've collected some ideas to try. As you do, remember that the threads are intelligent (the tool will remember and build off previous responses). So if you get a bad or unhelpful answer, keep that same thread open and continue asking questions, providing details, and pushing the tool to be more specific.
Ideas for how to use AI: Students

1. Create resumes and cover letters. "Can you generate a resume and cover letter for a certified nursing assistant with 5 years of experience? Please include key skills, achievements, and a summary statement" (there's a great demo of this here, and also a great career navigation prompt here).

2. Make emails more professional. "Can you rewrite this email to be more professional for an email sent to a potential employer? The email should express gratitude for an interview opportunity and include a brief explanation of my qualifications."

3. Explain complex topics and build a study plan. "I'm studying for the GED and need to prepare for the Science section. Can you build me a study plan?"

Ideas for how to use AI: Teachers and Coaches/Navigators

1. Create multiple-choice quizzes. "Can you generate multiple-choice questions for an exit ticket on the topic of World War II? Please include a mix of easy, moderate, and difficult questions to assess student understanding."

2. Assign a text to students and AI. Then compare and contrast. "Please summarize the article 'How to Start a Successful Online Business: 5 Steps to Take' and provide three main takeaways."

3. Develop higher-order discussion questions. "Write three Depth of Knowledge (DOK) questions for a high school English class studying Shakespeare's Hamlet. Please provide questions that require analysis, evaluation, and synthesis." (Watch a Bard demo of this process here).

💡 Pro tip: One of my favorite add-on prompts is to say something like, "Please write the response at a 6th/8th/10th grade reading level" to generate text at varying levels of complexity.
Ideas for how to use AI: Administrators

1. Develop grant proposals. "Can you develop a grant proposal, budget, and budget narrative for a non-profit organization focused on adult education? Please include a clear project description, goals, and objectives, as well as a detailed budget breakdown."

2. Analyze data. "Please generate spreadsheet formulas to clean and analyze a dataset containing student attendance data. The formulas should remove duplicates, sort the data, and calculate the total attendance hours for each student. Please also generate a chart to visualize the data."

3. Create rubrics. "Can you create a rubric for teacher observations for ESL instructors? The rubric should include categories such as classroom management, lesson planning, and student engagement, and provide specific criteria for each category. Please also include a rating scale and a space for additional comments."

Start anywhere

As you'd guess, Google, YouTube, and social media are filled with creative ideas and use cases for this seemingly incredible new tool. There are also classes for beginners, like here and here, and World Education is planning a webinar series in May 2023.

You could even just ask AI how to use it based on your job ("I'm a career navigator for adult learners. What are the 5 best ways to use ChatGPT to save time or better support my students?").

Have you used AI yet? Why or why not? And if you have, what have you found to be the opportunities and limitations within your workflow, programs, and the students you serve?

Add a comment so we can explore and learn about AI together!

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Exploring the Potential of ChatGPT: A Guide for Lifelong Learners

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We've created a MN ABE Professional Development YouTube Channel where we post recordings of all of our webinars and virtual events: https://www.youtube.com/@mnadulteducationprofession8753/featured
Recordings are organized into playlists to allow users to browse by topic.
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Minnesota Adult Education webinars, classroom videos, and training videos. Like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/mnabepd

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The what, Why Who and How of Blended Learning for Adult Bssic Skills Learners, a free, downloadable guide by Jen Vanek and David J. Rosen . Published by New Readers Press https://www.newreaderspress.com/site/Additional%20Resources/ProLiteracy_BlendedLearningGuide_2020-11.pdf

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Quality Matters Continuing Education and Professional Development (CPE) Non-Annotated Rubric (Callie Hazan, PA)

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Quality Matters Continuing Education and Professional Development (CPE) Non-Annotated Rubric (Callie Hazan, PA)

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This rubric is free to non-members. (info here https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/rubric-standards/cpe-rubric)

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PA Adult Education Resources website (Callie Hazan, PA)

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PA Adult Education Resources website (Callie Hazan, PA)

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Many states have extensive websites for their Title II-funded adult education programs. We can borrow and share materials and resources instead of reinventing the wheel. PA has lesson plan templates, CCRS materials, PA Foundation Skills, and workforce development materials you may want to check out!

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Resources for adult basic education teachers and tutors, ESL, GED and HiSET preparation, Career Pathways, and College and Career Readiness Standards.

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Principles of Multimedia Learning (Callie Hazan, PA)

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Principles of Multimedia Learning (Callie Hazan, PA)

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http://ctl.wiley.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MultimediaPrinciples_Summary.pdf
This research helps explain what we can process as we're looking at a slide and also listening to audio. The links I shared make it easy to understand, and here is the reference for the book: Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

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Principles of Multimedia Learning - Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services

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Multimedia materials are everywhere now. Check out these tips for how to harness the power of multimedia learning in your online classroom.

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Wiley University Services - Center for Teaching and Learning - Course Design (Callie Hazan, PA)

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Wiley University Services - Center for Teaching and Learning - Course Design (Callie Hazan, PA)

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There are really helpful research-based articles and videos that can help in the instructional design of online trainings and courses.

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Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services

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Assessment, Course Design

Assessments are one of the most critical elements of a course. Not only are they the activities students engage in, but they're also the measure of whether students have mastered...

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A resource and community for faculty to share research, techniques and lessons learned.

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Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons (Nell Eckersley NY)

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Google Applied Digital Skills Lessons (Nell Eckersley NY)

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Teach & Learn Practical Digital Skills - Applied Digital Skills

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Thousands of teachers and students are using Applied Digital Skills to improve digital literacy, and we’re adding new lessons regularly. Join us and start learning or teaching digital skills today.

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CREATE Adult Skills Network (Nell Eckersley NY)

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CREATE Adult Skills Network (Nell Eckersley NY)

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Made up of 6 projects funded by the Institute of Education Sciences https://createadultskills.org/
The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) is developing a research base about effective ways to use technology in adult learning. It develops, adopts, and evaluates interventions that use technology to build adult learners’ skills and improve their academic outcomes. The Network’s activities and resources guide practitioners, educators, researchers, and policy and funding stakeholders in their work using technology to support adult skills programming.

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Our Work

"Technology-enabled instruction" uses online tools and methods to make learning available to a wide population of learners. It holds promise as a way for adults to have better access to high-quality learning both in and out of the classroom.

The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) is developing a research base about effective ways to use technology in adult learning. It develops, adopts, and evaluates interventions that use technology to build adult learners' skills and improve their academic outcomes. The Network's activities and resources guide practitioners, educators, researchers, and policy and funding stakeholders in their work using technology to support adult skills programming.

Our Approach

Collaboration - The Network brings researchers together with adult education stakeholders, like instructors and policy makers, to develop and share best practices in technology-supported interventions.

Knowledge Building - The Network research teams conduct studies to better understand how to develop and use technology to support adult learning.

Dissemination - Through its wide array of partners, the Network shares research updates at webinars and conferences and in reports.

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"Technology-enabled instruction" uses online tools and methods to make learning available to a wide population of learners. It holds promise as a way for adults to have better access to high-quality learning both in and out of the classroom. The CREATE Adult Skills Network (the Network) is developing a research base about effective ways to use technology in adult learning.

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Technology Use and Integration in Adult Education and Literacy Classrooms 

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Technology Use and Integration in Adult Education and Literacy Classrooms 

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Key finding of this five-year statewide Texas adult education study : "Students who have a combination of distance learning (DL) hours and face-to-face (F2F) hours tend to outperform both students with only F2F hours and students with more than 50 percent of their hours as DL"  Free, downloadable PDF. Authors: Glenda Lynn Rose, Texas A&M University; Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning; Chih-Wei Wang, Texas A&M University; Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning Amanda Sainz, Texas A&M University; Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning; Suresh Joshi, Texas A&M University; Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning.  https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2019/papers/2/ This resource posted by David J. Rosen, djrosen123@gmail.com, Massachusetts and national researcher and professional developer.

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Submission Purpose

Main Conference

Type of Paper

Paper: Empirical

Abstract

Instructors and programs in adult education and literacy classrooms face challenges with technology integration due to minimal internet and mobile phone service availability, and limited financial support for professional development.

Keywords

Technology integration, Adult education and literacy, AEL instructor

Recommended Citation

Rose, G. L., Wang, C., Sainz, A., & Joshi, S. (2019). Technology Use and Integration in Adult Education and Literacy Classrooms. Adult Education Research Conference. https://newprairiepress.org/aerc/2019/papers/2 test="theme.id eq '2020'>(conference cancelled)

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Submission Purpose Main Conference Type of Paper Paper: Empirical Abstract Instructors and programs in adult education and literacy classrooms face challenges with technology integration due to minimal internet and mobile phone service availability, and limited financial support for professional development. Keywords Technology integration, Adult education and literacy, AEL instructor Recommended Citation Rose, G.

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HyFlex instructional delivery                                    David J. Rosen, djrosen123@gmail.com, Massachusetts and national

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Guide for Design and Implementation of Hybrid–Flexible (HyFlex) Models in Adult Education by David J. Rosen, Destiny Simpson and Jen Vanek (Free publication)

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Interactive facilitation software that is free and compatible with PowerPoint and Google Slides presentations. You can use this to embed polls, games, videos, drawing, VR, etc. into presentations. It can be lead by an instructor or self-paced (lead by learners). There are also great crowd-sourced lessons available for free.

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Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) Digital Skills Glossary - https://digitalskillslibrary.org/glossary This OER was created through a maker space with over 40 teachers participating. The result is a number of resources helpful for teaching digital skills vocabulary

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I use Canva to make Jamboard background, images for my slides, posters, stickers. You can present from Canva and also create a website in Canva. There is a version for non-profits that gives you free access to the pro level assets.

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Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Skills Framework (Nell Eckersley, NY)

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Free Google and PowerPoint slide templates with tons of free images. I have used this often and really recommend this as a starting point for visually pleasing templates. There are many options with different topics to choose from.
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