Save the Date!
Designing a Better Future for Adult Learners: A Cross-Country Collaboration
November 18, 2015
9am - 3pm PST / 12 - 6pm EST
The need is great. Imagine not being able to read to your children because you never learned how, or being unable to get a job that allows you to provide for your family because you do not have the required basic skills. Today, an estimated 36 million adult learners in America lack the basic math, language, and digital literacy skills necessary to find good paying jobs and navigate public and social systems. From a social and an economic standpoint, the need IS great, but there is a way forward, and we believe you can help.
Convened by Digital Promise’s Adult Learning Initiative, in close cooperation with the Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE, several education accelerators are hosting a nationwide, multi-city design day to explore how new digital learning opportunities could be designed for under-skilled, under-served adults. The team based design day will run simultaneously in multiple locations across the country and will be connected to the other locations virtually (via web conference) at the beginning and end of the day for kickoff, exchange of ideas, and reflection.
- LEARN about adult students and their unique needs, as well as how the Adult Education market works, who the buyers are and how funding works.
- Engage in local DESIGN challenges focused on designing real solutions for adult learners.
- CONNECT with entrepreneurs, educators, researchers, and investors who can help make your design a reality.
Join us! The need IS great, the digital divide IS real, but together, we can roll up our sleeves to do the good work for adult education students nationwide.
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Designing a Better Future for Adult Learners
Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Collaboration Locations and times:
- GSV Labs, Redwood City, CA -- 9am - 3pm PST
- 1776, Washington, DC -- 12pm - 6pm EST
- LearnLaunch, Boston, MA -- 12pm - 6pm EST
- EDGE, New York, NY -- 12pm - 6pm EST
- LEAP Innovations at 1871, Chicago, IL -- 11am - 5pm CST
For more information,visit the registration page.