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Transform your ESL and ABE classes with our newly updated Career Readiness app, now featuring a health literacy course. This smartphone-based resource equips learners with financial, digital, health, and work-life skills through engaging audiovisual lessons and interactive games. Teachers will learn how to use our LMS to track student progress and set goals. Hear real-life success stories from deployments across the U.S. and gain practical strategies to prepare learners for lifelong success. Original webinar date: August 14, 2025 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/SpmXb4KqxmU
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Transform GEDⓇ and HiSETⓇ prep with the Learning Upgrade app! Learn how instructors use smartphones and on-site computer labs to help adult learners succeed. See how students engage in "binge learning" sessions with interactive lessons that combine instructional content, practice exercises, and multimedia tools. Discover how this approach helps learners build skills and pass their high school equivalency (HSE) exams with confidence. Original webinar date: January 9, 2025 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/pAZwhROpKqs
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Are you ready to transform your ESL and ABE classes with a cutting-edge Career Readiness app? Join our interactive webinar session and discover how our smartphone-based instruction empowers learners with essential financial knowledge, real-world digital literacy skills, and crucial work/life coaching. Witness firsthand how students can prepare for success anytime, anywhere, with engaging audiovisual lessons and interactive games that provide immediate feedback. Plus, as a webinar attendee, you'll receive a free Learning Upgrade license, bringing this transformative app to your classes. Don't miss out on this opportunity to ignite a passion for learning and equip your learners for a future full of possibilities! Original webinar date: December 3, 2024 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/u6-lOG6G_Ro
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Discover how instructors are transforming their classrooms with the Learning Upgrade app, driving rapid gains in reading, writing, and math. In this webinar, you'll learn how to effectively implement the Learning Circles model, leveraging WhatsApp groups to expand learning opportunities for underserved adults. See firsthand how "binge learning" on smartphones accelerates student progress and gain actionable insights into tracking and motivating learners. This webinar is designed for adult education professionals eager to enhance their ESL programs with powerful, app-based learning solutions. Original webinar date: September 5, 2024 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/ImCwAptktkE
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In this interactive webinar, panelists will brief state and local adult education leaders about unprecedented opportunities to tap funding for programs through $770 million coming to states and territories. This funding will be released over the next three years to implement each state's federally approved digital equity plan. Participants will also explore how to leverage $42.5 billion in federal funds, such as bringing affordable broadband to many underserved areas, opening up new opportunities for online and hybrid learning for adult educators and students, intensifying training to foster digital navigator positions, and upskilling digital literacy and cyber safety skills. Participants will learn how to find out when their state is issuing requests for bids to deliver such training. Original webinar date: May 3, 2024 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/fS9O_1ct2-I
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You can now serve large numbers of refugees and migrants in your community with a breakthrough smartphone-based learning model. The Learning Upgrade Refugee Program uses WhatsApp to onboard learners into community learning circle groups. Learners use smartphones at school and at home to complete engaging lessons for rapid growth in English, ESL, math, GED, citizenship, finance, and digital literacy. Impact reports track refugees as they reach goals to access job training, higher education, and better employment opportunities. Discover how you can bring mobile learning circles to your program and become a catalyst for transforming the lives of refugees within your community. Original webinar date: November 7, 2023 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/_6ci9wm1QvI
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Digital literacy is hot! But the focus has largely been navigating the PC, internet and MS Office. Learners are often using very different digital tools at work, like digital tape measures, scanners, apps, and even robots. These tools are proliferating in jobs across all sectors, making work safer, more efficient, and quicker. Learn how to keep learners competitive for current jobs and how English learners at Tyson are developing digital skills for robotic automation. Original webinar date: September 14, 2023 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/6fnoU-MTnT8
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For several decades, technology has been touted as a solution to many of the issues in adult education. From increasing equity and access to driving measurable outcomes, we have called on technology to do a lot of heavy lifting. This panel presentation will include experts in adult learning, technology-mediated instruction, and workforce education who will share best practices, lessons learned, and tips for successfully introducing technology into your instructional model. Original webinar date: September 11, 2023 Webinar recording link: https://youtu.be/TpOPf2LD2ZM **No presentation slides for this webinar, so please reference the links below: Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy’s Digital Literacy Resources for Educators, Employers, and Volunteers: https://www.barbarabush.org/digital-literacy-resources-for-educators-employers-and-volunteers/ Digital Literacy Action Plan: https://wakelet.com/wake/oE8aSwlIj5IskWqbMqnug Digital Skills Checklist: https://edtech.worlded.org/resource/sdei-skills-checklists-for-diverse-learners/ Digital Skills Library: https://edtech.worlded.org/resource/digital-skills-library/ and associated glossary: https://digitalskillslibrary.org/glossary Blog post "Maintaining Our Balance: Transferring Our Sustaining & High-Leverage Practices to the Virtual Learning Environment": https://edtech.worlded.org/maintaining-our-balance-transferring-our-sustaining-high-leverage-practices-to-the-virtual-learning-environment/ EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit: https://edtech.worlded.org/digital-skill-building-by-design-the-edtech-integration-strategy-toolkit/ Foundations in AI for Adult Ed badges can be earned here: https://edtech.worlded.org/ai-for-education/ Resource Guide: https://www.barbarabush.org/digital-literacy-resources-for-educators-employers-and-volunteers/