EdTech Center News: Small Group Coaching TODAY @ 1PM EST
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation:
Preparing All Workers and Learners to Participate in the New Digital Economy
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Employer investment in digital inclusion and skills is critical for an equitable recovery and building a stronger, savvier, diverse workforce longer term, write Joshua Westfall of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation in a new joint blog with the Digital US coalition. They argue that closing the digital divide is an equity imperative and an economic imperative as jobs increasingly require digital skills and as employers shift to skill-based hiring systems that will require workers to navigate online platforms to share their skills and apply for work.
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Small Group Coaching TODAY!
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The EdTech Center @ World Education is offering free small group and 1:1 coaching. This opportunity is running from June to September and is connected to our Distance Education Strategy Sessions. We aim to provide additional support to the field by connecting coaching to specific topics and practice areas presented during the strategy sessions. Note that you can also book 15-30 min sessions with coaches directly on any one of the topics they have presented on; this includes: selecting an LMS, Wakelet, Google Sites, Google Classroom, and more! Learn more here.
Today’s session at 1 PM Eastern will cover how to design a Weebly class website. Come learn or get a refresher on how to design an easy to read, user-friendly Weebly website for your class. Did you know you can add your existing Weebly websites into Google Classroom? Come back with your questions for a second session after you have had a chance to explore Weebly.
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mLearning webinar #4:
Evaluating Apps
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Join us on Wednesday, August 19th at 10 AM Pacific / Noon Central / 1 PM Eastern for our fourth and final mLearning webinar on evaluating apps. During this webinar, Jen Vanek from World Education will highlight key evaluation criteria teachers might consider when choosing a mobile app to support instruction; Tiffany Brand from Dover Adult Learning Center will share her strategies for involving learners in evaluation after use; and EdTech Center Advisor Jeff Goumas from CrowdED Learning will lead a discussion on the importance of establishing metrics for evaluating app effectiveness based on your goals. |
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Webinar:
Distance Education Strategy Sessions
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Join the EdTech Center next Friday, August 21st at 10:00 AM Pacific, 12:00 PM Central, 1:00 PM Eastern for the 16th installment of our Distance Education Strategy Sessions.
This webinar will feature Southwest Minnesota ABE program manager See Muoa-Leske describing Reading Skills for Today’s Adults and how their library of free leveled readers is designed to support literacy development for English language learners. The second presentation will build on RSTA presentation, showing how the leveled readers have been integrated into engaging mobile accessible learning objects. Both Xavier Munoz from the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia and Jeff Goumas from CrowdEd Learning will share their work. 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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