CrowdED Learning

📢 Learn to create digital graphic organizers with us to teach reading skills!  Join the next EdTech Maker Space series starting next Friday, November 1 to collaborate and create standards-aligned reading activities using digital tools that will be added to SkillBlox and incorporated into the development of an alternative assessment for adult learners! This collaborative, service-learning opportunity will allow participants to: 1️⃣ Use digital tools to create standards-aligned reading activities  2️⃣ Contribute to edtech research 3️⃣ Help design alternative assessments options for adult learners 4️⃣ Learn to write authentic assessment items Don’t miss this opportunity to build new skills, collaborate with educators nationwide, and contribute to the future of adult education! Register now: https://lnkd.in/gyFZcubp 

View Cable Green, PhD's lightning talk on innovations in the expansion and implementation of #OpenEducationalResources (#OER) from this month's EdTech Strategy Session. Dr. Green highlighted the significance of open licensing for publicly funded knowledge, its role in global challenges, and the need for a shift in OER and research models. youtu.be/9LdSb_4IWhU You can view past lightning talks on our resource page https://lnkd.in/eUqb6HVX and register for upcoming sessions at worlded.me/ETSS2024!

Four years ago, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis - a time when educators were clamoring for guidance on how to continue learning through educational technology - CrowdED Learning launched our very first Ed Tech Maker Space. This service learning based professional development opportunity engaged 44 educators in a shared journey of a) building their skills in strategically leveraging edtech tools to support their learners, and then b) applying those skills to create open and adaptable digital resources that could increase independent reading opportunities for learners using Reading Skills for Adults, an openly licensed set of leveled readers. Recently, as part of an update to SkillBlox, we began moving these resources onto the platform - including the 345 Google Forms reading comprehension quizzes participants created in that first ETMS. In doing this task, I discovered that these quizzes have been taken over 27,000 times by learners! This week is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, dedicated to raising awareness of the pivotal role of adult education in enabling equitable access to societal resources, employment opportunity, and full participation in community life. As we spread the word to raise visibility and funding for adult education, let us please push to ensure we invest in our TEACHERS! Over the past four years, I have had the amazing opportunity to meet so many incredibly dedicated educators through EdTech Maker Spaces, who collectively have helped us put thousands of free and open educational resources into the hands of adult learners, at the same time building their own skills to better equip their learners for a digital world where lifelong learning is required. We can have so much more impact when we work together and invest in STAFF, not STUFF. Thank you, adult educators, for all that you do 👏📚👏💻👏💪 #AEFLWEEK, #AEFLWEEK2024 #openeducation #oer

At the Arizona Adult Ed Institute learning from my amazing World Education colleague Rachel Riggs as she breaks down the various ways in which educators are using AI for teaching and learning.