Spotlight on Practices
Spotlight on Practices
Education technology, used in the classroom and for mobile learning, can bring powerful, cost-effective learning opportunities to the 36 million lower-skilled adults in the U.S., especially the 32 million not served by our current workforce training and education systems. These resources, including stories from our Beacons, webinars with developers, and research reports, offer specific practices for incorporating ed-tech into adult learning in highly effective yet affordable ways.
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Featured Reports and Resources
Technology’s Impact on Adult Learners and their Children
In these two case studies, explore technology’s impact on adult learners by tracing the journeys of two family literacy programs as they used technology in transformative ways to meet their learners’ needs.Categories: Blog, Digital Literacy, Educators, English Language Learners (ELL), High School Equivalency, Literacy, Math, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership
Transforming Adult Ed: Gaming for Adult Learners
Learn how game design supports effective learning for adults. Peter Stidwill of FableVision shares the principles...Categories: Adult Learning, Developers, Digital Literacy, Educators, Engagement, English Language Learners (ELL), Math, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership, Video
Designing Technology for Adult Learners: Support and Scaffolding
Ed-tech developers can best support adult learners by integrating the research-based instructional strategies discussed in this short report into their products.Categories: Adult Learning, Developers, Report, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices
Creating Career Pathways for Underserved Adults: Connecting Supply & Demand
Forming partnerships between government workforce development and private businesses can help underserved adults move into careers that change their and their families’ lives.Categories: Adult Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Learning, Educators, English Language Learners (ELL), Literacy, Math, Prison Transition, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership, Video, Workforce Training
Universal Design for Learning Empowers Opportunity Youth
YouthBuild USA is working with CAST to use Universal Design for Learning principles to think differently about helping educators support meaningful learning for nontraditional students, including Opportunity Youth and adult learners.Categories: Adult Learning, Adult Learning, Blog, Educators, Educators, High School Equivalency, Literacy, Math, Professional Development, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Trends and Thought Leadership, Workforce Training
Smartphones Meet Adult Education
How can adult ed integrate smartphone learning to accelerate literacy gains? In this webinar, the developer of the literacy app, Learning Upgrade, demonstrates this ELL app, and instructors share how their English language learners used the app.Categories: Adult Learning, Developers, Educators, English Language Learners (ELL), Math, Professional Development, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Tools and Best Practices, Video
Closing the Digital Divide: 5 Digital Literacy Strategies to Help Adult Learners
Watch this recorded webinar to see techniques for infusing five key digital literacy skills -- decoding, meaning making, using, analyzing, and presentation of persona -- across adult ed programming.Categories: Adult Learning, Adult Learning, Adult Learning, Digital Literacy, Educators, Educators, Professional Development, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices, Video
Technology’s Impact on Adult Learners and their Children
In these two case studies, explore technology’s impact on adult learners by tracing the journeys of two family literacy programs as they used technology in transformative ways to meet their learners’ needs.Categories: Blog, Digital Literacy, Educators, English Language Learners (ELL), High School Equivalency, Literacy, Math, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership
Transforming Adult Ed: Gaming for Adult Learners
Learn how game design supports effective learning for adults. Peter Stidwill of FableVision shares the principles...Categories: Adult Learning, Developers, Digital Literacy, Educators, Engagement, English Language Learners (ELL), Math, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership, Video
The Path to Full Tech Integration: From the First Conversation to Powerful Learner Use
Learn how Kentucky Adult Education achieved full technology integration across more than 100 programs. They share their rubric for assessing effective integration and strategies for helping learners become powerful users.Categories: Adult Learning, Blog, Digital Literacy, Educators, English Language Learners (ELL), Literacy, Professional Development, Spotlight on Practices, Stories from the Field, Tools and Best Practices
Designing Technology for Adult Learners: Support and Scaffolding
Ed-tech developers can best support adult learners by integrating the research-based instructional strategies discussed in this short report into their products.Categories: Adult Learning, Developers, Report, Research, Researchers, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices
There’s No Comprehension without Picturing: Visual and Digital Comprehension Strategies for Adult Learners
Modeling and guided practice are particularly effective for teaching literacy to adult learners. To learn more about these and other active strategies, watch our recorded webinar with Mockingbird Education.Categories: Adult Learning, Educators, Literacy, Professional Development, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices, Video
Harnessing the Power of Education Technology for the Adult Learner
Explore how experimenting and iterating, the first of five adoption factors investigated in a new series of blog posts, can lead to successful technology implementation in adult learning communities.Categories: Adult Learning, Blog, Developers, Ed-tech Adoption Factors, Spotlight on Practices, Tools and Best Practices, Trends and Thought Leadership
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