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While traditional digital tools have been valuable resources for adult education students pursuing ESL, HSD, or HSE goals, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) represents a shift in educational support. Today, AI permeates our daily lives- from streaming recommendations to navigation apps and virtual assistants that often operate invisibly in the background

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Using Google Sheets in a shared drive helps teachers and staff track student progress quickly and easily. It combines relevant student data in one place, including work completed, CASAS scores, and graduation progress. Before Google Sheets, student progress was paper-based and stored in the classroom. Now, staff can view and update information online, anytime, from anywhere.

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Collaboration is a must-have skill for any student who wishes to succeed in higher education and/or in the modern workplace. According to an article on collaboration published on the EducateMe website, there are 10 benefits to collaborative learning:

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The Adult Learner Variability Navigator (ALVN) is a one of the only tools for adult educators that links learner factors, and strategies to research. The project was funded through Digital Promise, a global nonprofit working to expand opportunity for every learner.

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The HyFlex (Hybrid-Flexible) model of instruction has gained significant traction in adult education, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. This instructional approach allows students to choose between attending classes in person, participating online in real-time, (simultaneous instruction) or engaging with course materials asynchronously. (Only some agencies do the asynchronous option) As adult education continues to evolve, the HyFlex model offers a promising alternative to traditional and fully online instructional methods, but its effectiveness and implementation challenges must be carefully considered.

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Adult educators who are early adopters have embraced the power of generative AI tools to create customized lesson materials, differentiate instruction, and save time. Using Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and others effectively requires an understanding of how to prompt the tools, but sometimes the output just does not give us what we are hoping for. Other times, the generative AI tool may “hallucinate” – give inaccurate information. In these cases, iterative prompting (conversing with the AI to give or request more clarity or by providing examples) can help, but by that point, how much time has truly been saved?

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What is Accessibility? According to Wikipedia, Accessibility is “the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.” . I like a more personable definition ( it mirrors the graphic above), “Educational materials and technologies are “accessible” to people with disabilities if they are able to “acquire the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services” as people who do not have disabilities”

Career Technical Education, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED, Older Adults, Adult Basic Education

Whether you teach Economics or ESL, Citizenship or Math, including video content in lessons has numerous potential benefits, including alignment with adult education standards. Videos that support lesson content can build students’ background knowledge, a key shift of the College and Career Readiness Standards. One principle of the adult education standards for English language learners, the English Language Proficiency Standards, is integration of multimedia technology into curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The standards’ 21st Century definition of literacy includes visual and digital literacies. Video is a means to boost these literacies, building students’ college and career readiness.

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As large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Gemini are being utilized more and more in education, we, as adult educators, need to become prompt engineering aficionados, finessing prompts to get the results we want. But really, who has time for that? Here is where the rays of light come from the heavens and illuminates MagicSchool.AI. MagicSchool was created to alleviate teacher burn-out by creating easy to use AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools for lesson planning, differentiation, assessments, and more.

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Introduction: In the February article, "Streamline Planning with AI: Craft Custom Lessons," Susan Coulter detailed how teachers can harness the power of AI through platforms like Chat GPT and Google Bard to streamline their lesson planning. However, the transformative potential of AI in education extends beyond the classroom. In this article, we will explore how adult education students can ethically and responsibly leverage AI to enhance their language and content development.

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Every district has their own format for writing lesson plans, and I remember it being a manual and time-intensive process. Typically, this involves crafting lesson objectives, carefully choosing, arranging, and presenting different activities to address a particular learning goal.

Career Technical Education, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED, Older Adults, Adult Basic Education

Collaboration. Collaboration Tools. Collaboration Activities. All good terms for working in groups to move learning forward and enhance the learning experience.

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This short month is chock-full of holidays, occasions for both romantic and serious lesson themes and accompanying Web activities.

Adult Basic Education, Older Adults, ESL and Citizenship, High School and GED, Holidays

Here are some Web sites to check into for more on Veterans Day events and information. Appropriate for High School/GED, ESL and Older adults.