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EdTech: Digital Literacy for Families + Media Literacy in the Age of AI

This month’s EdTech Strategy Session features two lightning talks by: Cassandra Kramer Dr. Sangeeta Mahapatra Register Here… 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

English Language Learning Resources for Refugees and New Immigrants and Americans

Refugees, immigrants, and new Americans make up over half of the student population in WIOA -funded adult education programs in Virginia. As of the 2023-2024 program year, 57% of adult education students were enrolled to learn English, and over 3,700 foreign-educated students were internationally trained professionals with a postsecondary degree or… 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

Believe it or Not! Information Literacy & Adult Learners

by John Trerotola “Don’t believe everything you read.” This reminder is truer today than ever!  One of the outcomes of social studies and civics instruction is a more informed citizenry. However, this goal is becoming a major challenge with the prevalence of fake news, deliberate misinformation, and the… Read More

Believe it or Not! Information Literacy & Adult Learners

by John Trerotola “Don’t believe everything you read.” This reminder is truer today than ever!  One of the outcomes of social studies and civics instruction is a more informed citizenry. However, this goal is becoming a major challenge with the prevalence of fake news, deliberate misinformation, and the… Read More