Digital Literacy for ESOL Instruction Part 1: Introduction to Digital Literacy

Series Overview What are the most important technology skills adult ESOL students (and teachers) need to develop in preparation for family, career, and post-secondary success? What are some ways the practice of these skills can be integrated into existing instruction? This three-part series on Digital Literacy for ESOL Instruction will explore these questions and some promising answers. Participants will spend time learning about tools and methods they can use with their students, develop a plan on how to integrate what they have learned, and then take time to try out their plans before a final face-to-face workshop in which participants will report back on their experiences and learn from each other’s challenges and success.

Part 1 Introduction to Digital Literacy (3 hour face-to-face workshop) What does it mean to be digitally literate? We will use the Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment, the Mozilla web literacy framework, and a survey developed by adult literacy educator David Rosen to discuss the answer to this question, and to develop our own individual digital literacy learning plans as a model for what can be done with students. Participants will discuss what technology tools they already use in their ESOL lessons and what technology skills they think their students need to develop and practice.

Presenter: Nell Eckersley
Audience: ESOL Instructors

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