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EdTech Center: Digital Literacy and the Employer’s Perspective

This Distance Education Strategy Session will shed light on the employer’s perspective and highlight common goals between adult educators and employers. We will hear from Cambria and Tyson Foods, two employers that have leveraged EnGen to fuel their adult education partnerships.  … Read More

SABES: Digital Literacy Tools with a Purpose: Discounted Connectivity and Devices for Students, Staff, and Programs

In this workshop, you will hear about three sources of free or discounted devices and connectivity, and we will discuss successful practices for loaning technology. We will also share a source for assistive equipment for computer users with disabilities. Read More

A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL

This workbook contains three levels of interactive grammar lessons and reading activities for beginning English language learners. The grammar section includes a select set of YouTube videos, and the three original readers include short picture or chapter stories. Each lesson is accompanied by self-correcting exercises. Read More

VALRC: Digital Literacy for Multilingual Learners Webinar Series, Session 3: Virtual Instruction for Beginning Multilingual Learners

Do you facilitate online classes for learners who are just beginning to develop their English skills? How can you create language learning opportunities for learners using technology AND English for the first time?  This webinar is designed to provide effective and engaging strategies for English practice… Read More

Teaching with Technology at REEP

Micayla Burrows with students from REEP’s first Northstar Digital Literacy class; by the end of the class, students had earned 70 certifications in different Northstar modules. by Beatrice Lele and Hilary Major English language learners work in pairs, leaning toward each other to show pictures they… Read More

Podcasts

Welcome to Update on Adult Education! Welcome to VALRC’s podcast compilation, Update on Adult Education. Here, you can explore topics that are relvant to adult educaiton in Virginia.  … Read More

Virtual ESOL Classes for Afghan Women

by Darlene Fahrenkrug Last year, I taught two virtual English classes for Afghan women at a beginning level (including emergent readers). They studied on Zoom four hours a day, four days a week to develop their English, digital literacy, and workforce skills in the Literacy… Read More

Computer CORE (Community OutReach and Education): A Nonprofit Partner for Teaching Computer Skills and Opening Doors for Immigrants

by Nagia Khaldi Kurabi and Donna Walker James People come to us lost and don’t know what to do—we show them how to succeed. Computer CORE (Community OutReach and Education) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 in Alexandria with the mission of… Read More

Computer CORE (Community OutReach and Education): A Nonprofit Partner for Teaching Computer Skills and Opening Doors for Immigrants

by Nagia Khaldi Kurabi and Donna Walker James People come to us lost and don’t know what to do—we show them how to succeed. Computer CORE (Community OutReach and Education) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 in Alexandria with the mission of… Read More

Virtual ESOL Classes for Afghan Women

by Darlene Fahrenkrug Last year, I taught two virtual English classes for Afghan women at a beginning level (including emergent readers). They studied on Zoom four hours a day, four days a week to develop their English, digital literacy, and workforce skills in the Literacy… Read More