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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, the Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) , one of Digital Promise’s Beacon Project communities , holds computer classes for adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Argelia is not alone. Other students in the program have similar experiences.

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Using Digital Tools to Transform English Language Learning

Digital Promise

Yet, as with much of ed-tech, the concept has not yet moved into the adult learning space. Supporting the Unique Needs of Adult Learners. For Jodi Ruback, I-DEA Program Administrator, “flipped” classrooms are particularly effective for supporting adult learners. Helping Learners Achieve their Goals Faster.

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A Look Back at Digital Promise’s 2015

Digital Promise

As you know, Digital Promise is committed to closing the Digital Learning Gap -- ensuring that all learners have equitable access to technology, acquire the skills to fully participate in a connected world, and feel empowered to achieve their life and work goals. school and library to the Internet. The League now represents more than 3.2

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One University's Approach to Innovation: ‘You Have to Go Slow to Go Fast’

Edsurge

Let’s say a college wants to embrace new learning techniques and reinvent how it operates. The sandbox’s executive director, Michelle Weise, says she’s learned that the fastest way to make disruptive change at a university is to go slow, by taking time to get input from various campus stakeholders. How does the institution go about it?

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Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Shawn McCusker, Co-Author of Becoming Active Citizens: Practices to Engage Students in Civic Education Across the Curriculum

EdTechTeacher

Therefore, we must all endeavor to learn the basics of democracy: the rights granted by the constitution, our system of checks and balances, the separation of powers, etc., Therefore, we must all endeavor to learn the basics of democracy: the rights granted by the constitution, our system of checks and balances, the separation of powers, etc.,

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. If we don’t make the most of this chance,” he said, “we’re not going to get another one.” “It

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