Twelve Steps to Teaching SLIFE with WhatsApp

Are you interested in (or already) using WhatsApp or a similar mobile messaging tool to provide remote instruction to learners? This blog post by Nan Frydland explores how to use WhatsApp as a central instructional tool and shares learnings, tips and strategies from her work.

All in One Place:
References Cited in 21 CLEO Work

The 21Century Learning Ecosystem Opportunities research team is creating a database of the references cited in their blogs and other publications. The list, just begun, will be added to over the course of the next two years.

mLearning Webinar #2:
Resources and Strategies to Support Instruction

Join us next Wednesday, June 17th at 10 AM Pacific / Noon Central / 1 PM Eastern as we showcase learnings from our community of practice and resources from our mLearning website. In this webinar, we’ll highlight the work of several innovators: 

• Sherry Lehane from Providence Public Library shares her work on adapting and optimizing teacher created material for mobile instruction; 

• Jeff Goumas of CrowdED Learning will share tools and strategies to help you organize and share free, mobile friendly content with learners; and 

• Tiffany Brand from Dover Adult Learning Center in New Hampshire shares goal-setting strategies and tools for learners using mobile learning apps.

Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions

Join the EdTech Center today at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 11th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.

This webinar features two lightning talks. First, Sherry Lehane from the Rhode Island Tech Hub for Adult Education will share strategies for creating mobile learning content on common technologies (like Google Slides) that maximizes readability and engagement for students learning on phones. Then, Rachael Rigg, from Frederick Community College, will share strategies for maximizing engagement in online classrooms. She’ll share how she creates media and sets up role play activities (among other things) to support learning for English language learners. Following the lightning talks, we’ll break into two discussions and you can choose which topic you’d like to further explore.

The New York Times:
Gaining Skills Virtually to Close the Inequality Gap

Students worked at a cybersecurity class at Per Scholas, a skills program in the Bronx. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times.

Successful job-training programs for low-income young people have long been held in person. Can a virtual ladder still be a path to the middle class?

Engaging Adult Learners Remotely: 
Tech Tools for Coaches and Navigators

Coaches and navigators use a variety of  tech tools to connect with and support learners,  share community resources and encourage their progress with learning goals. Check it out the tech tips and tools compiled by the National College Transition Network and the SABES Program Support Professional Development Center at World Education, Inc.