Beginning on September 9, 2019, and continuing for five days, this activity will introduce those who work directly with adult learners or manage adult education instructors to CrowdED Learning. CrowdED Learning is a free and easily accessible source of learning tools that helps reduce barriers to education and employment for adult education learners, while encouraging them to become persistent, lifelong learners in the digital age.
CrowdED Learning founder and director Jeff Goumas will lead a discussion and provide hands-on opportunities for participants to use CrowdED Learning and its hundreds of publisher-partner resources and thousands of high-quality free and open (OER) resources. CrowdED Learning’s web-based tools represent a growing collaborative initiative among adult education service providers, publishers, and developers that is designed to make it easier for instructors and students to freely access research- and standards-based content in all learning domains targeting adult learners at all levels.
The week-long event will focus on specific resources that lend themselves to particular concepts—comprehension, fluency, grammar, vocabulary—along with great free tools that can be used to share these resources with students.
To make the discussions during the week as productive as possible, we wanted to reach out to the community to learn from educators who currently are using the following resources, all of which we intend to touch upon (to varying degrees) over the course of the week:
- Comprehension | ReadWorks, CommonLit
- Fluency | Reading Skills for Today’s Adults, Reading for Health Care Workers
- Vocabulary | Appalachian State University’s Academic Vocabulary Curriculum + aligned Quizlets
- Grammar | Quill
- Sharing / Assigning Content | Google Sites, Padlet, Remind, WhatsApp, Messenger, Google Classroom, Wakelet
We are interested in engaging with educators who currently are using these various resources ahead of time, particularly so we can
- ensure inclusion educator perspectives/inside “tips” as we introduce and explain each resource / tool,
- be certain to highlight key features and considerations that make each tool particularly effective with adult learners, and
- encourage active participation by educators currently using these tools to answer questions and provide guidance to others who might be interested in exploring these tools.
Please feel free to use this thread to share your thoughts and insights on any of these resources and how you use them with students.
We are also interested in interviewing “power users” of these resources to make sure our overviews are as helpful as possible, as well as to discuss opportunities to participate prior to or during the week as resource experts. If you are interested in this, please DM Jeffrey Goumas @ jeff@crowdedlearning.org.
To prepare for the event, you may want to visit CrowdED Learning and develop questions on topics of particular interests to share in the discussion.
Please join us at the LINCS Community’s : Reading and Writing, Teaching and Learning, and Integrating Technology from Monday September 9th to Friday September 13th.
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We look forward to this event and hope you will join us and share your thoughts and resources!
Jeri Gue, Moderator, Reading and Writing
Susan Finn Miller, Moderator, Teaching and Learning
David Rosen, Moderator, Integrating Technology