DACE D0017 - Integrating Technology Into The Adult Education Classroom (AEPP Workshop)

Course Description

Integrating Technology into the Adult Education Classroom (AEPP Workshop) is intended for instructors and/or tutors who want to learn to integrate technology into the adult education classroom. Participants will learn the POST and SAMR methods to guide technology integration and use the methods to develop lessons that improve students’ digital literacy skills. The workshop will include examples of how adult educators have used technology with adult learners and provide an opportunity for participants to explore different technologies that can be used while teaching academic and workplace skills. Participants will first practice integrating technology into an existing lesson plan, then develop a new lesson that integrates technology and implement the lesson with students. A coach will support participants throughout the lesson planning process. The workshop includes two mandatory webinars and two online meetings with a coach who will support participants’ technology integration.

Course Outline

1. Exploring Digital Literacy Skills
2. POST and SAMR Methods
3. Explore Technologies That Can Be Used for Teaching and Learning
4. Analyze a Lesson Plan and Describe Your Ideas for Integrating Technology
5. Revise Your Lesson Plan

Learner Outcomes

After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define digital literacy as it relates to adult basic education learners.
• Describe the requirements that relate to improving adult basic education learners’ digital literacy skills.
• Identify the benefits of integrating technology into instruction for learners and teachers.
• Describe the four elements of the POST (People, Objectives, Strategy, and Technology) method and how POST can be used in lesson planning.
• Identify the four levels of SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Replacement) and provide examples for each level.
• Identify at least two technologies that can be used to achieve an objective in a lesson plan.
• Choose the technology using the POST and SAMR models.
• Write a lesson plan that integrates technology into instruction.
• Teach a lesson in which students are using technology to improve the learners’ digital literacy, academic, and workplace skills.
• Reflect on the experience, share the reflections with other participants, and use the reflections to improve another lesson in which technology will be integrated.