This week, Digital US Coalition and our Center supported and appreciated National Digital Inclusion Alliance leadership of “Digital Inclusion Week.” The celebration continues with ongoing weekly webinars this month featuring some Digital US partners including Byte Back. Thank you to all the digital inclusion heroes helping us move closer to our goal of #digitalequitynow.
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Learning Management Systems
Needs & Use Survey |
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Please respond to our survey on the challenges, experiences, and wins adult education and workforce programs have had in purchasing and using Learning Management Systems to bring mobile learning and career navigation services to adult learners, and especially those with lower digital literacy. Through the “Equity in mLearning” project funded by the WES’ Marima Assefa Fund, the EdTech Center is partnering with non-profits and employers on an ambitious effort to ensure all immigrants and refugees in the U.S. have access to a digital platform that offers free learning content, referrals to learning and career opportunities, portable records, and other supports for economic mobility.
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Distance Education Strategy Sessions
to Resume Today!
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After a short break, our Distance Education Strategy Sessions are back! Join the EdTech Center today at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 17th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions. We'll hear from the Nashville Public Library and learn about their "ecosystem of support" model, including the professional development resources they developed, community offerings and how they work together. We'll also look at the newly released Transforming Distance Education course and the lessons related to this week's topic. |
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Readability for All - Improving Literacy & Engagement through Enhanced Readability in Digital Texts |
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The EdTech Center @ World Education has partnered with Adobe and Readability Matters to bring you this webinar on readability in digital texts and literacy. We’ll introduce readability and why it matters and share promising tools for supporting enhanced, personalized readability in digital texts for learners. More details coming soon and check out our two-post blog series from the spring on Readability Features & Technology for Better Reading in case you missed it!
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Did you hear? Adobe’s annual flagship convening, Adobe MAX 2020, will be free this year with two days of 24-hour programming around the world. From October 20-22, learn from education luminaries, celebrities, and experts who are engaging students in the classroom and beyond. Gain insights into their best practices for distance learning and enhancing creativity in the classroom. Join us at the Education track at this year’s Adobe MAX.
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Digital Promise, a Digital US partner, is seeking a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Following the visionary leadership of founding CEO Karen Cator featured in this EdSurge piece, this position calls for an equally dynamic and strategic CEO who will lead the organization to have an even greater impact on educational innovation and bridging the digital divide at a time when the need to reimagine teaching and learning is more urgent than ever.
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Guiding Principles for the Use of Technology in Adult Education highlights the need to be mindful in our descriptions and references to adults who may have literacy needs or goals. Often our language used to talk about adult literacy lacks precision and at times can be offensive to adults struggling with literacy. Deficit framings such as “low-skilled’ can wrongly imply they have no other valuable skills or no other “higher” skills.
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Voter Education, Registration, and Action...
During A Pandemic!
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View a webinar introducing our new Voter Education, Registration, and Action materials for 2020. The election process is more complicated this year due to the pandemic, which makes it that much more important to share information with students about how to vote, why voting matters, and how to make sense of current debates about voter suppression and fraud. You’ll leave the webinar with ready-to-use, relevant, student-written content that will help you teach all of this and more. The content is bundled in Lesson Packets available as PDFs or in Google slides (that can be adapted for your distance learning classroom).
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Using the "Pandemic" issue of
The Change Agent
in the Classroom
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View a webinar about using The "Pandemic" issue of
The Change Agent in the classroom. Activities and discussion questions aligned to the College and Career Readiness Standards make this classroom-ready, and our online features (including audio versions of articles) make this a great resource for distance learning.
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