World‌ ‌Education has launched the Saint Lucia ConnectEd program in partnership with Saint Lucia's Department of Education, Innovation, and Gender Relations (DEIGR) to build resilience and to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Saint Lucia. The project’s aim is to position youth and educators as leaders of digital literacy by taking a value-based approach grounded in positive youth development. Through innovative approaches and models such as EdTech Center's Maker Space, the project will support professional learning for teachers, the development of digital skills for youth, and other initiatives to create open education resources (OER) readily available to teachers.

Keys to Impact in Digital Navigator Services: Adaptability, Trust, and Awareness, a three-part blog series is a collaboration between the EdTech Center at World Education and the ExCITe Center at Drexel University to give voice to digital navigator programs that have rapidly innovated over the last year. Each blog features one of three components programs have identified as key to success in closing digital divides and digital, racial, and other inequities: Adaptability, Trust, and Awareness.

 

Over the last year the EdTech Center, with funding from Walmart, has supported organizations across the country to pilot digital navigator services, providing adults with just-in-time supports for technology access and foundational digital skills. With input from Digital US partners, it has developed a digital navigators playbook and a hub for digital inclusion resources. 

Building Digital Literacy Opportunities and

Expanding the Range of Digital Tools Used for Instruction

This Friday, June 11th at 1PM EST, Jamey Sadownick, Briya’s Technology Integration Coordinator, will share a digital skills checklist and other support resources that were developed over the past year to make this approach possible. Following that, Kirsten Wittkowski, Adult Education Coordinator & Instructor, will spotlight examples of the innovative activities and resources that Briya’s instructors use to make technology-rich instruction accessible to all of their learners.

The upcoming free Teaching Skills That Matter Annual Virtual Conference will feature information about Teaching the Skills that Matter with Approaches that Work! As we begin to transition to a post-pandemic world, the Skills that Matter (e.g., critical thinking, problem-solving, navigating systems) are more critical than ever before for supporting economic well-being, civic engagement, and digital inclusion among adult learners. The presenters, including the EdTech Center@World Education’s Jen Vanek, share ideas about keeping best practices learned during the pandemic that will keep instruction relevant in a post-pandemic world while staying flexible in their instruction, particularly in the areas of civic engagement, workforce development, and digital literacy. The speakers share examples of technology-rich lessons and resources that can be used in both face-to-face and online/remote instruction.

World Education has worked to identify models, strategies, and resources for adult ESOL instruction and support, as well as key considerations in the design and scaling of ‌remote‌ ‌programs. Learn about those findings, innovative remote ESOL program models, and promising practices during the official launch for the results of‌ ‌this descriptive‌ ‌research on Friday, June 18th at 1PM EST.