COABE 2025: Upskilling with EdTech by Adult Foundational Education

idealconsortiumworlded — 2025-03-20 21:51:05 UTC

Digital equity begins when everyone has the tools, skills, and access necessary to thrive in our digital economy. During this session we will share what we learned by working with diverse organizations, discuss strategies for effective implementation of digital navigation services, provide resources, and preview our freely available digital navigator training which is now available on Coursera. Come ready to learn about how to implement or prepare to be a digital navigator yourself!

idealconsortiumworlded — 2025-03-20 21:51:11 UTC

BRIDGES Digital Resilience Toolkit is an open set of learning and instructional resources you can adapt for a range of contexts. We’ll explore BRIDGES tools, resources, and guidance by examining how these materials have been implemented at the local, regional, and state levels to support digital resilience efforts. We’ll share real-world examples of BRIDGES implementation and brainstorm how to implement these strategies in your context. See how you can begin building BRIDGES to digital equity!

idealconsortiumworlded — 2025-03-20 21:51:20 UTC

SkillBlox is a free tool that allows instructors to find, organize, and share lessons powered by open educational resource (OER). Since 2024, teachers participating in a research study have been testing many new features, including a new Community feature to help inspire collaboration and sharing within SkillBlox. During this session, you’ll learn about these new features, lessons learned, and see how easy it is to create, find, and share high quality OER with others.

idealconsortiumworlded — 2025-03-20 21:51:30 UTC

Financial literacy (FinLit) can be challenging to incorporate meaningfully into adult education classrooms. But what if there was a one-stop place with hundreds of high-quality, FREE, ready-to-use FinLit lessons and activities for different levels and languages that made it easy to integrate FinLit into reading, math, language, and IET instruction? Come explore the FinLit Resource Bank, and see how easy it is to integrate Financial Literacy and empower your learners within any context.

idealconsortiumworlded — 2025-03-20 21:51:38 UTC

Let’s close another successful COABE Conference with a Tech Jam! A Tech Jam is where you show everyone something you know or something you learned about edtech and digital learning during the conference. Each presentation is three minutes, and you can show up to present in person or online during this hybrid session. All tech tips are encouraged and celebrated! Whether your jam is Google, Microsoft, digital literacy, edtech apps, AI, or something else amazing, come and jam with us!