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Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions
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Join the EdTech Center today, Friday April 24th at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for our weekly Distance Education Strategy Sessions.
Our strategy session this week will feature resources especially helpful for learners who need extra support and alternatives to traditional online learning. First we’ll feature Joselyn Marte, program coordinator and advisor at the Lawrence Adult Learning Center, in Lawrence, MA. Joselyn will describe how to provide wrap around support and navigation services using technology. Next, Dr. Jessica Rothenberg-Aalmi from Cell-Ed will describe how Cell-Ed curricula and personalized coaching can be accessed on a range of devices – including flip phones. One featured resource is a free COVID-19 info course in multiple languages to help youth and adult learners stay safe during the pandemic.Jessica will also discuss the launch of a major initiative April 30th to reach the most vulnerable learners with free programming.
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Looking Ahead --
Register for next week’s Distance Education Strategy Session: Friday, May 1 at 1:00 Eastern
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Please join us for a view of how one state is taking on the need to rapidly scale distance education. On Friday, May 1st we’ll feature two lightning talks from Texas. First, Texas State ABE Director Anson Green will share a few key moves that the Texas Workforce Commission made to make it possible for programs to serve more learning at a distance. Then Ashly Winkle from the Literacy Council of Tyler will walk you through how to use Wakelet to support instruction - making it possible for teachers who don’t have a website to organize digital resources. As always, following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.
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Webinar:
EdTech for Continuity of Eduction in Response to COVID-19
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This international-focused edtech webinar series hosted by the Basic Education Coalition & mEdcucation Alliance features digital learning strategies and tools. World Education will be presenting on its COVID-19 response efforts including using popular mobile messaging platforms to deliver coaching, learning content and more. Listen in on Monday at 11am EST!
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UNESCO Webinar on Effectiveness of Distance Learning Strategies
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Listen in on the fifth webinar in an ongoing UNESCO series that looks directly at emerging evidence about the impact of distance learning as an educational response to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Dogfooding:
How Often Do You Do Your Own Assignments?
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“Dog what?” you ask. Read this blog that makes the case for “dogfooding” - a term you may not have heard before that’s been used for years among software developers. It refers to the act of using your own product as a consumer in order to work out its glitches and reflects key principles of user-centered design. The article makes the case for using dogfooding as a regular part of best practices in instructional design.
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Global Storybooks:
From Arabic to Zulu, Freely Available Digital Tales
in 50+ Languages
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Dr. Bonny Norton from the University of British Columbia has been working on creating an open multilingual literacy portal called Global Storybooks. The site hosts hundreds of multilingual open-licensed books from over 40 countries. The linked storybooks are mobile friendly, easy to click to, and include audio. This is a wonderful resource for ESOL teachers to use to support literacy development in a learner’s home language, or for adult ESOL students to use with their own children.
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New Brief on Implementation Tips:
Reporting and Counting Hours |
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A new brief, "Implementation: Reporting and Counting Hours", shares key information about federal guidance on distance education policy, including how to count and report proxy contact hours using a teacher verification method. See this bief and other resources on assessment, monitoring and tracking here.
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