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December 2024
Tech Tools to Amplify Access and Engagement
This lightning talk explores a variety of barrier-busting tools and strategies to help educators know and connect with learners better than ever. See how Essential Education leads face-to-face online classes with up to 80 learners and uses graphic pen and...
December 2024
Triple E Framework for Technology Integration
The Triple E Framework empowers teachers to make better decisions about effective technology integration. The framework centers on instruction that gives students opportunities to gain and improve digital skills. It includes a simple rubric for engaging,...
November 2024
How Ellii Helps Prepare Your Students for Success in IET Programs
This session introduces teachers to Ellii’s comprehensive workplace English content library, including its newly released Allied Healthcare courses and supplementary materials. Learn how to support English students in career exploration at a variety of...
November 2024
Digital Tools & Visual Thinking Strategies for Literacy, Accessibility and Engagement
Visuals can bring classrooms to life, motivate learners and aid understanding. In this lightning talk, Emily Bryson shares some of her favorite tools for creating and using visual thinking activities both online and face to face. Explore simple ways to...
October 2024
Pathways to Short-Term Credentials
The strategies shared during this presentation will support workplace literacy programs, career bridges, IETs, pre-apprenticeships, flipped classroom models, and customized services for Internationally Trained Professionals. Learn to actively build new models...
October 2024
Digital Literacy for Families
By using family-motivated assignments and elements of digital literacy in the ESL classroom, teachers can empower adult English learners to succeed in the workforce and at home. This Lighting Talk explores mini-projects that can help connect learners to their...
September 2024
Shifting to Community Owned & Operated Open Knowledge
Dr. Cable Green, Director of Open Knowledge at Creative Commons, shares innovations in the expansion and implementation of open educational resources. EdTech Strategy sessions are an initiative of the IDEAL...
September 2024
Using SkillBlox for Digital Navigation in Libraries
Xvante Fitzhugh, Digital Navigator at Denver Public Library, uses SkillBlox to organize, access, and share free and open resources to support adult learners in building digital skills. EdTech Strategy sessions are an initiative of the IDEAL...
May 2024
Evaluating AI-powered EdTech Tools
What do we need to know before we adopt a new edtech tool? What should we consider if the tool uses AI? Two Harvard Graduate School of Education AI scholars, Mrinmoy Saha and Aleksandar Lazovski will guide us through a set of criteria and questions that can...
May 2024
Tracing the History of AI
You know AI is a hot topic, but do you know all of the philosophy, sci-fi, and math that got us to this point? Settle in for some storytelling with a librarian turned AI expert, Hale Durant of aiEDU, who can help us understand AI controversy and chatter,...
April 2024
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Get an overview of the research-based, inclusive teaching framework called Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its application with adult learners. EdTech Strategy sessions are an initiative of the IDEAL...
April 2024
BRIDGES Digital Skills Framework
The BRIDGES digital skills framework is the result of a collective effort to expand digital skills instruction and resources. Beyond defining the skills needed to pursue personal, educational, and career goals in an increasingly digital world, BRIDGES offers...