Join us this Friday at 1PM EST to hear about the EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit, which is full of effective edtech routines rooted in evidence-based strategies and over 1,000 curated digital skills learning activities crowdsourced by educators as part of our Spring 2021 EdTech Maker Space! We’ll discuss ways to use the toolkit, as well as upcoming opportunities for you to contribute to what we hope will be a growing, go-to resource for adult educators. Then we'll hear from the Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) on the latest updates to make the free USA Learns platform optimized for mobile users and learn how one adult education ESL teacher uses the site with her beginning level students.

In this selection of interviews conducted by the 21CLEO research team, learners shared very different stories about whether or not they were actually invited to engage in learning that led to career advancement. A major difference was the level of engagement of direct supervisors, managers, or human resource professionals who were in a position to determine if the employees were 'ready for' training. How do learners communicate their readiness and how do managers, supervisors, or others who can facilitate their placement notice them? This post features three working learners with contrasting experiences that help us to understand the level and quality of support they receive from such mediators and subsequent career outcomes.

This post provides an overview of the newly “soft-launched” EdTech Center’s EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit, a free app designed to help teachers consider strategic integration of edtech based on routines they wish to leverage, tools they wish to use, or digital skills they wish to develop. Learn how you can download the toolkit in advance of our November 12th Distance Education Strategy Session where we’ll share our first public overview of the app. 

 A new UC Berkeley Labor Center report, "Data and Algorithms at Work: The Case for Worker Technology Rights", gives policymakers and other stakeholders an understanding of trends in the data-driven workplace and a framework of the technology rights that workers need and deserve. It also describes data-based technologies, how they are being used in a wide range of industries and the potential harms for workers, and lays out a new set of policy principles that give workers rights and establish a strong enforcement regime.

Technology challenges adult learners face include obtaining affordable broadband home access, lack of access to inexpensive computers or laptops they can use at home, and skills in digital literacy to assist with online learning and employment searches, access to health services and information, and other digital needs. In this Adult Literacy Education (ALE) article, EdTech Center Partner David J. Rosen of Newsome Associates makes the case for comprehensive Digital Navigator programming and advocates for legislative and policy support for these services in adult basic skills programs.