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Relevant and sustained PD 👍🏼 (Gulamhussein, 2013)

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Relevant and sustained PD 👍🏼 (Gulamhussein, 2013)

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This MN site might be helpful to sort through all of the tech tools out there: https://atlasabe.org/resources/

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New Resources

In 2020, ATLAS created the ABE Foundations at a Distance webinar series to complement the ABE Foundations online course. These webinars are archived in the YouTube playlist linked here.

This free online Schoology course provides an introduction to the world of Adult Basic Education. Participants can complete the entire course or access specific topics for a refresher, and can earn 6 CEUs for successful completion of all lesson reviews in the course.

See the Remote Instruction section under Instructional Resources in the ATLAS online Numeracy library for remote math/numeracy instructional resources.

Presenter Information

Get information about stipends, reimbursements, and other instructions for presenters.

MN ABE YouTube Channel

The MN ABE YouTube Channel is a free online PD resource that you can use to explore teaching techniques and classroom ideas in action! Find out more in this MN ABE Connect newsletter article.

Registration Deadline: WED. 8/25/21 Incorporating writing activities into remote instruction for English language learners is a challenge for many teachers and tutors. In this webinar, participants will learn approaches for including writing practice throughout the lesson and activities for extended practice. Participants will also develop strategies for delivering... Learn More

Registration Deadline: THU. 8/26/21 Join Literacy Minnesota Adult Basic Education and ESL trainers for a virtual workshop on how to be an effective tutor from a distance! Learn best practices for connecting and communicating one-on-one with adult learners on the phone or online, get suggestions for correcting errors... Learn More

Registration Deadline: MON. 8/30/21 Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills. Learn More

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In 2020, ATLAS created the ABE Foundations at a Distance webinar series to complement the ABE Foundations online course. These webinars are archived in the YouTube playlist linked here. This free online Schoology course provides an introduction to the world of Adult Basic Education.

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The BRIDGES Toolkit is an adaptation of the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Digital Skills Framework. It includes links to learning resources, technology integration routines, digital skills terminology resources (the digital skills glossary), and more.

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Beyond defining the skills needed to pursue personal, educational, and career goals in an increasingly digital world, BRIDGES offers the tools and resources needed for learners and training providers to build these skills.

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Beyond defining the skills needed to pursue personal, educational, and career goals in an increasingly digital world, BRIDGES offers the tools and resources needed for learners and training providers to build these skills.

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We've run a Northstar Digital Literacy pilot through OTAN and some agencies start by offering the Northstar assessments and training to staff members first before using with students. Helps staff brush up on their own skills as well as get comfortable with the program before classroom use.

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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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Applied Digital Skills Posters from Google

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Applied Digital Skills Posters from Google

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These are great posters that highlight "why would I ever use digital tools in real life" (career focused)

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Digital ESL logo with an open book icon modified to look like a mobile device.  The text "Digital ESL" is below the image.

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Digital ESL - digital literacy for Beginner ELLs

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Digital ESL - digital literacy for Beginner ELLs

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https://oercommons.org/courses/digital-esl-an-open-educational-resource

Digital ESL is a hands-on, paper-based course designed to teach foundational digital literacy to adult beginner English learners through guided experimentation on their smartphones, maximizing learning opportunities.

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What strand activities would you like to see at COABE 2025?

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What strand activities would you like to see at COABE 2025?

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What are you thinking about proposing for COABE 2025?

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What are you thinking about proposing for COABE 2025?

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What are your takeaways from COABE 2024? 

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What are your takeaways from COABE 2024? 

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What does your program do to support your use of tech/digital resilience? What do you need more of?

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What does your program do to support your use of tech/digital resilience? What do you need more of?

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What tech do you use in teaching and how does it support digital skills used outside the classroom?

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What tech do you use in teaching and how does it support digital skills used outside the classroom?

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Check out these other options: DJI, Rod

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bingobaker.com

Create virtual Bingo cards! Rachel and I played this in the Digital Glossary session yesterday.

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Create a song from a prompt! Here's a Tech Jam anthem in the style of Western Swing (Bob Wills is still the king). 🤠🎶

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[Verse] We've learned so much at this grand ol' conference Now it's time to celebrate and dance Grab your partner, join the rhythm and the groove Come on y'all, let's show 'em how we move (oh yeah) [Chorus] Tech Jam, swingin' in this wild ride Closing the conference with a cowboy stride Let's two-step into the night, hand in hand Keepin' that western swing alive in this land (swing it, now)

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upbeat lively western swing song. Listen and make your own with Suno.

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SkillBlox helps adult educators find free resources!

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SkillBlox helps adult educators find free resources!

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And you can add your resources to the SkillBlox library!

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✨ In Gemini (and other tools on this list) you can generate your own free images like a bottle of ketchup that says "Catch UP" for a team meeting.

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spatial.io

engagevr.io

Both have free and paid versions, and free versions allow enough tools to develop lesson environments. Free version of Engage includes tools to develop assessments within the immersive environments.

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This is being used in correctional settings to teach math. How great!!!

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Welcome to the GED Math Crash Course The Crash Course is a totally free resource designed by instructor Kate Redmon to teach new and struggling students the math they really need for the GED.

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Stop being so serious! Make more temp tattoos! 

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Stop being so serious! Make more temp tattoos! 

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Free shipping, free online proofs, fast turnaround.

Sticker Mule is the easiest way to buy custom stickers & decals, labels, and other printing online. Order in 60 seconds and we'll turn your designs and illustrations into custom stickers, magnets, buttons, labels and packaging in days. We offer free online proofs, free worldwide shipping and super fast turnaround.

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Sticker Mule | Custom printing that kicks ass

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Thousands of people trust us to make kick ass stickers, labels, packaging & more. Free proofs, free worldwide shipping, fast turnaround & 24/7 customer support.

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Don't let English literacy be a barrier to technology use! 

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Don't let English literacy be a barrier to technology use! 

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LEVERAGE technology for language learning. Why not practice the alphabet in a digital environment like making letters capital and lowercase on a mobile phone or laptop keyboard?

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Skillways was created to bridge a gap in traditional LMS’ …. It integrates with any LMS to allow you to map and track at a detailed and granular level learner progress toward skill building and produces a heatmap

Also this is a fun and easy tool!

Free AI generated interactive learning experiences:

https://www.mindsmith.ai

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Liquid Mode supports readability on mobile! 

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Liquid Mode supports readability on mobile! 

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Adobe's Liquid Mode feature in Acrobat helps adult read PDFs on their phone. Check it out!

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Liquid Mode Field-Test: Readability Technology in Adult Literacy Education - EdTech Center @ World Education

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Since 2019, the EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe and The Readability Consortium to advance the field of digital text readability. Our contribution to this work is to help mitigate the challenges that adults who are dependent on their smartphones for accessing information online face when reading digital text. Many adults enrolled…

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Want to have emojis on hand to insert into emails, social media posts, docs, etc? @Rachel Riggs had an amazing tech tip for me: If you're on Windows, on your keyboard click the Windows button and the period at the same time. A window should pop up with emojis and symbols. If you start typing, it'll even search through them for you (lightning, e.g.). If you're on Mac, it's CMD + CTRL + space. Best hack ever!!! -Alison

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Co-designing virtual environments in Kentucky! 

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Co-designing virtual environments in Kentucky! 

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ENGAGE | Virtual communications Made Real

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Jeff Goumas: You can use this to make things like Google Forms shareable so that others can copy. Just change "/edit" at the end of the URL to "/template/preview" and others can SEE the form as well as make a copy.

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Google Document URL Tricks - Learning in Hand with Tony Vincent

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By replacing /edit in a Google document's URL, you can do some pretty nifty tricks! You can transform a shareable link into a Preview, Make a Copy, Template, or PDF link.

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This Chrome extension helps you create quick lesson plans or other teaching artifacts within Google Chrome.

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Brisk Teaching is the #1 AI-powered Chrome extension , helping you automate your workload without adding to it.

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Give personalized feedback and ensure high-quality feedback on every assignment, from the first to the last. Brisk's four feedback styles - Targeted Comments, Glow & Grow praises, Rubric Criteria, and actionable Next Steps - simplify your feedback routine.

Create AI-Driven Curriculum, Lesson Plans, Quizzes, and More with Ease

Say goodbye to the endless challenge of crafting engaging and relevant instructional materials. With just a few clicks, you can quickly generate rigorous quizzes, comprehensive lesson plans, detailed rubrics, captivating presentations, effective interventions, and much more, streamlining your preparation process.

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We've taken AI detection to the next level. With the 'Replay' feature, you can see exactly how your students put together their assignments, with a video of their whole process from beginning to end.

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Ensure every student can access classroom materials. With just a few clicks, instantly convert any online text into a Google Doc that's either simplified for different reading levels and/or translated into another language.

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Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Quickly create instructional materials, share feedback, evaluate student writing, and adjust or translate texts - all without leaving your current workspace. With Brisk, the days of toggling between apps are over, freeing up more time for what you love: teaching.

Prep for the week in seconds with the Create Menu

No matter what grade level or subject area you teach, you can create, personalize, and differentiate curricular materials, lesson plans, quizzes, IEPs, rubrics, and more with the click of a button.

Using Google? Brisk integrates seamlessly with Google workspace. Google docs and forms created with Brisk can be instantly assigned in Google Assignment and Google Classroom. No copy and paste needed.

Drastically reduce time spent grading with feedback in Brisk

Leave feedback for students in four ways: ✨ Glows & Grows, 🎯 Targeted, 📏 Rubric Criteria, and 🪜 Next Steps.
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Brisk's unparalleled 🎯 Targeted Feedback tool instantly crafts Google Doc comments aligned with your rubric and standards, guiding students precisely where they need to revise. (Premium Feature

Inspect writing to understand the evolution of student work

Wondering how students revised their work? With Brisk you can watch a step-by-step playback of your students' revision history, including their copy and paste actions.

Brisk also leverages a cutting-edge AI-detection model to estimate the likelihood of AI writing. This gives you a starting point to facilitate conversations around academic honesty and dishonesty.
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Level educational materials to meet students where they're at

Have you encountered a resource that doesn't match your classroom's reading level? Brisk takes content from any Google doc, article, or website and converts the material into a document that is suitable and leveled for your students. Brisk will simplify complex ideas, shorten lengthy sentences, adjust the word choice, and so much more.

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"Brisk Teaching is an incredible AI tool. It serves as a blueprint for instant student feedback - which you can edit on the spot. If this would have come out years ago, more teachers would likely be feeling way less burnout. You can tell this is a product made by teachers for teachers. They thought of everything. If you're a teacher and haven't tried this tool, do it."

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"As a Language Arts teacher, one of the hardest parts of my job is providing enough meaningful feedback for my students. Brisk has allowed me to provide way more specific and actionable feedback for my students. It has also helped me to see more elements of quality that I had previously overlooked in my students' work. The ease of access with Brisk is also a huge bonus. I can use this tool in all of the different platforms that my students use. I can't wait to see future versions - that will continue to help me provide the feedback that my students need."

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Brisk is a free AI-powered Chrome extension that helps busy teachers save time directly within the tools they already use, like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. Teachers use Brisk as a Targeted Feedback Generator, AI Presentation Maker, AI Quiz Maker, AI Lesson Plan Generator, AI Rubric Generator, Letter of Recommendation Generator, IEP 504 Template Maker, and so much more.

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Had no idea tmobile will give free internet to houses with free/reduced lunch.

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Is this the future of Google??? Will we be "perplexity-ing"???

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My team is liking Kami as a platform that allows for annotation in Google drive, integration with google classroom, and as a potential replacement for Google jam.

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Byron loves Canva for infographics and to link social media accounts so designs can go straight to socials! Why not start sharing student success stories using Canva?

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Toby helps you organize lots of links. Share a curated collection of links with others. Add links to Toby right in Chrome. What are you waiting for? Organize your online life!

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What does the long term outcome look like?

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What does the long term outcome look like?

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Identifying clear opportunities and bringing in all stakeholders into the convo

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Seems like so few and so many players defining the agendas

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Students only having cell phones.

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Being aware of accessibility and implementing it!! 

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Being aware of accessibility and implementing it!! 

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Largest research grant by IES is still only 1% of funding- so prioritization NOT meeting the funding needs

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Adult learners using various tools — what’s being done about how learners use digital devices beyond laptops or even phones? What about machines for manufacturing? Tools in transportation? Need for collaboration between industry and adult education.

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Teachers Not paid equitable or universally to do the work

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Teachers Not paid equitable or universally to do the work

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So then how can we get the policy and practice alignment we need?

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Important for instructors to model playfulness and lifelong learning. Normalizing how there will always be something new to learn, and adapt our teaching as these digital technologies evolve

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Ethics of AI

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To battle scarcity mentality and lack of resources needed

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Conversation practice and scenarios using Chat GPT

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Creating customized resources

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Is there enough time for teachers to become proficient in using the tools?

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Is there enough time for teachers to become proficient in using the tools?

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Several organizations are either, secretly addressing the issue, or are hard to find. NDIA, World Education and other organizations have been crucial in providing opportunities to develop the necessary networking partner together to promote and work towards equity.

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Digital Skills Library • Digital Skills Library

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TCALL’s call center to support learner technology use.

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Ability to do digital literacy and assessments for low level ESOL.

Digital accesses and resilience in Texas (DART) - Anson Green and Tyson - free access online -

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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.

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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.

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Remember - good teaching first, tech tools second. Find a good framework that integrates lesson planning and tech like Triple E

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Remember - good teaching first, tech tools second. Find a good framework that integrates lesson planning and tech like Triple E

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Since March 2020, we have seen widespread adoption of technology by adult educators. Throughout this process, we have seen a gradual shift from "emergency response teaching" - throwing whatever tech tool or platform we could at learners in an effort to keep learning going - to the realization that in order for edtech to be effective and sustainable, there must be strategic rationale behind edtech use.

To support this more strategic approach to edtech integration, as well as recognition of the need to be developing the digital skills of both learners and instructors, the EdTech Center (ETC) is excited to "soft launch" the EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit. The Toolkit - currently in mobile-app format only - draws inspiration, content, and expertise from a variety of recent and ongoing ETC projects; these include the mLearning initiative (which has been supported in part through finding from the Barbara Bush Foundation's Adult Literacy XPRIZE Communities Competition ), the CrowdED Learning Initiative (funded by the WES Mariam Assefa Fund ), the monthly Distance Education Strategy Sessions , and the Spring 2021 EdTech Maker Space Digital Skills Library project .

The EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit is a resource to help educators explore sustainable edtech - general, repeatable edtech activities that can be leveraged regularly regardless of context or content and provide predictable experiences for learners- and understand the underlying evidence-based strategies behind their use. It also provides guidance on how to develop learners' digital literacy when implementing these routines by providing sample questions teachers can ask that support direct instruction of digital skills. These questions are designed to help make connections between the tasks learners perform by way of the routine to the underlying digital skills being developed.

To do this, the Toolkit is organized so educators can explore by three points of entry:

BY ROUTINE: This tab allows educators to explore different edtech routines, organized into 5 categories based on what learners are doing within the routine:

Engage & Question (e.g. exploring, connecting prior knowledge, forming inquiries)

Build knowledge (e.g., researching, gathering and analyzing data)

Process & Practice (e.g. mapping, visualizing, trying, questioning, wondering)

Respond & Create (e.g. reporting, demonstrating, presenting)

Assess & Reflect (e.g., defining criteria, monitoring, self-assessing, evaluating progress, reflecting)

BY EDTECH TOOL: This tab allows you to explore various edtech tools, categorized into how they are used, and see if there are currently routines within the toolkit that leverage that tool. (Note: This is the least "complete" of the sections and is something for which we will be actively working to crowdsource content from practitioners in the coming year.)

BY SKILL: This tab allows you to explore based on skills as defined by the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative's Digital Skills Framework . Each skill includes learning resources you can use with your learners to help develop that skill, as well as "I can" statements that help establish relevance with learners.

The routines are based on work the EdTech Center's CrowdED Learning initiative completed in November 2020 developing a curriculum-specific Technology Integration Toolkit as part of an update to Women Employed's Career Foundation curriculum. They also draw from submissions included in EdTech Center's mLearning Resource Hub as well as strategies shared during ETCs monthly Distance Education Strategy Sessions. There will be ongoing additions to the toolkit developed by instructors who complete the IDEAL 103 Building an EdTech Strategy Toolkit (BEST) course .

Each routine includes activity details - the , the , and the of implementing the routine with your learners. Included in the are relevant evidence-based strategies described in the linked Digital Promise's Adult Learner Variability Navigator site. ( See this March 2021 lightning talk from Digital Promise's Medha Tare and Sarah Caciccio to learn more about the Navigator.)

Some routines also include "View" and/or "Copy" links that allow you to see and make a copy of a template you can use to implement the routine with learners, such as this progress monitoring tool built in Google Sheets , which is used for the routine shown in the image.

At the bottom of each routine are details regarding the connected digital skills. This section provides context for explaining the digital skills learners develop as they engage in the routine, including direct questioning prompts you can use to invite discussion around the underlying digital skills.

The "Skills" section/library is currently the most robust of the three sections, and it builds off of the work of our Spring 2021 EdTech Maker Space project, in which nearly 60 educators aligned over 1,200 activities to the 75 skills of the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative's (SDEI) Digital Skill Framework .

The activities within the library draw from GCFLearnFree.org (Goodwill Community Foundation), DigitalLearn.org (Public Library Association), Learn My Way (Good Things Foundation), and Basic Computer Skills MOOC (WISC-Online). Between now and our "official" launch November 12, we will also be adding in projects from Google Applied Digital Skills .

Within the skills library, you can navigate to a specific skill and see which activities align. For each activity, details are provided such as learning modality, source, and mobile-friendliness. You can launch each resource from the app, or copy the URL of a resource so you can share with learners by text, email, or other mode of communication.

Over time, we intend to have a student-facing version of the Digital Skills Library. It will also be integrated into our Spring 2022 update of SkillBlox .

At the moment, you will notice some inconsistencies within the app. That's because this app is a work in progress....and we need your input to make sure we build off of this starting point in ways that make it as useful as possible to adult educators.

Because of this, you will notice that all screens within the app have a "provide feedback" button. This button will launch a form that you can use to provide feedback on anything: ideas for improvement, missing/erroneous links, suggestions for skill alignment updates, etc. Over the course of the next month, you will see lots of changes in real-time...including new activities, updated navigation, and updated images and icons.

Once we've incorporated your feedback, there will be plenty of opportunities to help us add to the toolkit. These include future EdTech Maker Space projects starting in early 2022 as part of our Digital Resilience for the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative , co-creation events, open calls for activity submissions, and more!

The Toolkit app was developed using Glide Apps, the same free, no-code app building tool we have used to develop our Marshall Leveled Reading Program and the Video Math Prep for the GED apps. Because it is a browser-based app, you first will open it within a browser and then need to add the site to your homescreen. Note: You can use the app both on your computer and your phone.

Follow these steps to add the app to your mobile device:

1. Go to https://etctechtoolkit.glideapp.io/ on your mobile device.

2. Once loaded on your device's browser, you will be prompted to add the app to your homescreen. This process is different whether you are on an iOS or Android divide, so Glide offers this nifty video to walk you through the process .

3. Once you've added it to your homescreen, it will appear as an icon just like any other app. All you have to do is tap to launch!

Watch an overview of what's in the toolkit and how to use it, as well as a summary of practitioner feedback we've gathered in the lightning talk below.

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Digital Skill-building by Design: The EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit - EdTech Center @ World Education

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Can use TANF and SNAP funding to support digital access!!

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How can we inspire teachers to be digital problem solvers?

training on ChatGPT so they can get help

Repetition - have them explore and play with tech to build confidence.

Mentoring and coaching by more knowledgeable others.

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Has anyone tried FigJam?

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Using AI to create supplemental tailored content for learners. Great in providing additional practice or examples.

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Apply digital literacy skills and standards through OER resources to help develop digital skills and provide opportunities for transferrable skills.

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DART: A Foundational Digital Literacy ESL Curriculum

Table of Contents

Keyboard

Security

Parts of a Computer

Using a Computer

Going Online

Creating Accounts

Safety

Searching

Troubleshooting

Review

Intro

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.

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Keyboard

Lesson 1: Lowercase Alphabet Introduction
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students review the lowercase alphabet.

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Lesson 2: Lowercase Alphabet on the Keyboard
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will locate the lowercase letters of the alphabet on a modified image of a phone keyboard.

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Lesson 3: Uppercase Alphabet Introduction
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students review the uppercase alphabet and distinguish between the lowercase and uppercase alphabet.

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Lesson 4: Uppercase Alphabet on the Keyboard
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will locate the uppercase letters of the alphabet on an image of the keyboard.

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Lesson 5: Numbers and Special Keys on the Keyboard
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will identify the numbers 0 - 9 and common special keys on a Windows keyboard, match the words zero - nine to the numbers, orally exchange phone numbers, and type a message on their phones that uses lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special keys.

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Lesson 6: Symbols on the Keyboard
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will identify common symbols, locate them on the keyboard, and use prepositions of place to describe their locations on the keyboard.

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Security

Lesson 7: Introduction to Security
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will learn how usernames and passwords used in logins provide security for their information and differentiate between strong and weak passwords.

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Lesson 8: Strong and Weak Passwords
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will differentiate between strong and weak passwords and dictate, transcribe, and type passwords consisting of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.

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Using a Computer

Lesson 10: Computer Sign In and Sign Out
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will turn on and wake up a computer, use a username and password to log in to a computer, and lock, sign out of, and shut down a computer.

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Lesson 11: Using the Windows Desktop
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will learn the basics of the Windows desktop and taskbar, how to open an app shortcut from the desktop or taskbar, how to minimize, maximize, and close an open app window.

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Going Online

Lesson 12: Connecting to the Internet
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will check the Wi-Fi connection on their computers and log in with a username and password provided by the teacher.

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Lesson 13: Using Google Chrome
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will learn parts of the Google Chrome window, how to navigate in Chrome using linked text and objects and the back and forward buttons, and how to scroll in a window.

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Creating Accounts

Lesson 14: Understanding Online Accounts
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will complete online forms, identify login requirements, and create and log in to an online account.

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Lesson 15: Creating Strong Passwords
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will identify requirements for strong passwords and create a strong password that is strong but easy to remember.

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Lesson 16: Creating a Gmail Account
Lesson Overview: In this lesson, students will create, log in, and log out of a Gmail account.

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TCALL is the statewide Adult Education and Literacy professional development and resource center for Texas, housed at Texas A&M University.

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Digital Resilience Training: Would love your input!

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I'm part of a team working on Digital Resilience training for adult learners and organizations. We're getting ready to conduct stakeholder interviews and would love your input!

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In March 2023 we will be conducting stakeholder interviews to better inform the design of this training. If you have questions or ideas about how this training can best serve your organization or your learners, we want to hear from you!

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Share your thoughts: In March 2023 we will be conducting stakeholder interviews to better inform the design of this training. If you have questions or ideas about how this training can best serve your organization or your learners, we want to hear from you!

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TeachAI brings together education leaders and technology experts to assist governments and education authorities in teaching with and about AI. The initiative is led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society for Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum and advised by a diverse group of 100+ organizations, governments, and individuals. TeachAI’s goals include guiding policy, building community and capacity, and increasing awareness. To learn more about TeachAI, please visit www.teachai.org/about.

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Project Overview

Digital Equity Advocacy

Pilot Site Communities

Promising Tech-Enabled ESOL Practices & Resources

The Transforming Immigrant Digital Equity (TIDE) project was born out of a critical need to engage and educate service providers and policymakers in three overlapping spaces: adult English language learning, digital equity and inclusion, and immigrant inclusion. Over the past two years, TIDE has designed and piloted an ecosystem model for equitable English language learning and digital resilience, supported adult education and immigrant service providers' advocacy efforts around the Digital Equity Act of 2021, and uplifted successful models for technology-enabled learning.

Advocating for Digital Equity: A Facilitator Guide for Catalyzing Immigrant and Refugee Community Members builds on this work by supporting immigrants' and refugees' right to tell their own stories and lived experiences with the digital divide. For there to be equity in the English language learning and digital resilience ecosystem, we must center the experiences and expertise of adult immigrants and refugees, and recognize them as not only learners or recipients of services, but also co-designers, subject matter experts, community advocates, and perhaps most importantly, agents of change.

The guide is designed for adult education practitioners, staff at immigrant and refugee serving organizations, and other individuals who work directly with multilingual adult immigrant and refugee learners. It is organized into three modules: 1) Learning About and Reflecting on Digital Equity, 2) Collecting Data on Digital Equity, and 3) Using Storytelling for Advocacy.

Advocating for Digital Equity draws on the values and work of the following initiatives by World Education and our partners:

The Change Agent is an online magazine for adult educators and learners published with support from the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) at World Education. Featuring writing by adult learners with a focus on social justice issues, The Change Agent was conceived in 1994 as a tool to help teachers and learners apply advocacy skills in response to impending federal funding cutbacks for adult education and continues to serve as a resource that centers learner voice.

CrowdED Learning, an initiative of World Education, works to build a sustainable, equitable open education ecosystem that increases access to quality education and lifelong learning for all. Its SkillBlox platform makes it easy for instructors to find, organize, adapt, and share quality free content with learners. Elements of this toolkit have been shared via SkillBlox for easy access and adaptation.

Communicative Justice Initiative (CJI), a collaboration of practitioners at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), advances communicative justice in immigrant and refugee communities by teaching data literacy in the adult English language learning classroom and other settings. Communicative justice upholds the right of marginalized communities to be included in and lead conversations about data - what data is collected, who is represented, and how data is interpreted, shared, and put to use. World Education is an ongoing partner in CJI's work.

The Immigrant Voices Podcast Project, an initiative of the Gardner Pilot Academy in Boston, features interviews with immigrants enrolled in the Academy's English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) program. The podcast aims to share the lives, journeys, struggles, and successes of immigrants in their own words, and to foster acceptance and empathy through storytelling. World Education is not directly affiliated with the Immigrant Voices Podcast Project aside from being fans and listeners.

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Advocating for Digital Equity: A Facilitator Guide for Catalyzing Immigrant and Refugee Community Members - World Education

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Advocating for Digital Equity: A Facilitator Guide for Catalyzing Immigrant and Refugee Community Members supports immigrants' and refugees' right to tell their own stories and lived experiences with the digital divide.

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TeachAI brings together education leaders and technology experts to assist governments and education authorities in teaching with and about AI. The initiative is led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society for Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum and advised by a diverse group of 100+ organizations, governments, and individuals. TeachAI’s goals include guiding policy, building community and capacity, and increasing awareness. To learn more about TeachAI, please visit www.teachai.org/about.

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Project Overview

Digital Equity Advocacy

Pilot Site Communities

Promising Tech-Enabled ESOL Practices & Resources

The Digital Equity Act presents an unprecedented opportunity to ensure digital equity and inclusion for everyone in the U.S. This page provides guidance for adult education programs, immigrant-serving organizations, and other community organizations on how to get involved in their state's Digital Equity Plan planning process.

What is a State Digital Equity Plan?

A state's plan must include the following:

1. The barriers to digital equity faced by covered populations in the state

2. Measurable objectives for

1. availability and affordability of broadband access, devices, and technical support

2. digital literacy

3. online accessibility of public services

4. individual online privacy and cybersecurity

3. An assessment of how the above objectives will impact and interact with the State's economic, educational, health, social, and other outcomes

4. A description of how the State will collaborate with key stakeholders to achieve the above objectives, including including community anchor institutions; nonprofit organizations; organizations that represent covered populations; civil rights organizations; workforce development program providers; State agencies administering adult education activities; public housing authorities; and/or partnerships between any of the above.

5. A list of organizations with which the State's administering entity collaborated on the Digital Equity Plan

Where are we now?

(Timeline from NTIA's Digital Equity Act Programs Overview fact sheet.)

Over the past year, States have been drafting their Digital Equity Plans using their State Digital Equity Planning Grant funding. This process includes convening key stakeholders, disbursing funds to subgrantees for assistance in planning (if proposed), and collecting data on the barriers to digital equity faced by covered populations.

Before States finalize their State Digital Equity Plans, they are required to publish the drafts of their plans and solicit public input: States must hold a public comment period of at least thirty (30) days, consider all comments received during this public comment period, and incorporate any "worthwhile" comments. As of July 2023, multiple states have released their drafts for public comment.

View World Education's Digital Equity Act tracker to learn who is leading Digital Equity Act work in your state, what public and stakeholder engagement opportunities your state is holding, and if your state has published their draft Digital Equity Plan for public comment.

This sheet is frequently updated, and World Education invites all stakeholders to submit any additional information they may have to support others' advocacy efforts.

Guidance & Resources for Getting Started

NTIA Guidance & Resources for State Digital Equity Planning

Other Guidance & Resources for State Digital Equity Planning

What's coming?

States have one year from the date they are awarded State Digital Equity Planning Grant funding to draft and finalize their Digital Equity Plan. For the next round of funding, the State Digital Equity Capacity Grant, States will be required to not only submit their finalized Digital Equity Plans, but also describe any changes they made to their plans in response to public comments and write a response to each comment they received.

Funding from the State Capacity Grant will support states in implementing their Digital Equity Plan over five years. Once states have received their State Capacity Grant funding, NTIA will solicit applications for the Digital Equity Competitive Grant, for which a number of entities are eligible.

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The Digital Equity Act presents an unprecedented opportunity to ensure digital equity and inclusion for everyone in the U.S. This page provides guidance for adult education programs, immigrant-serving organizations, and other community organizations on how to get involved in their state's Digital Equity Plan planning process.

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Learn how to personalize your New Tab page.
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