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Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of July 15

Schedule your Professional Development with OTAN today. For more ideas consult What OTAN Offers webpage and then email support@otan.us for more information.

Tech & Learning Announces Winners of Best of Show at ISTE2024

This year’s ISTE 24 Conference hosted in Denver, Colorado showcased “hundreds of new products and services.” Judges evaluated nominated products on the show floor with the following criteria: “ease of use, value, uniqueness in the market, and proof the product helped make teachers’ lives easier and supported student achievement.”

National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled

The National Library Service (NLS) for the Blind and Print Disabled is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent ow vision, blindness, or a physical, perceptual, or reading disability that prevents them from using regular print materials. Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS circulates books and magazines in braille or audio formats, that are instantly downloadable to a personal device or delivered by mail free of charge.

Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of July 8

Schedule your Professional Development with OTAN today. For more ideas consult What OTAN Offers webpage and then email support@otan.us for more information.

Building Educator Digital Capacity

Going beyond access to devices and technology is the high level of quality professional learning critical to a technology initiative. Whether in a rural, urban or suburb, the condition of success in any agency is a culture of collaborative inquiry.

Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of July 1

Schedule your Professional Development with OTAN today. For more ideas consult What OTAN Offers webpage and then email support@otan.us for more information. OTAN will be closed July 4th to celebrate Independence Day!

Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of June 24

Schedule your Professional Development with OTAN today. For more ideas consult What OTAN Offers webpage and then email support@otan.us for more information. This Upcoming Week’s Professional Development

Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of June 17

OTAN will be closed June 19th to celebrate Juneteenth - Freedom Day. OTAN presentations at CASAS link. Find your favorite OTAN presenters and we look forward to seeing you!

The New Jim Code? Race and Discriminatory Design

This podcast/article can be heard or read using this full article link. Ruha Benjamin, associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and author of the book, Race After Technology discusses exploring the “role of technology in education.” She refers to “discriminatory design and her concept of The New Jim Code in reference to the highly racist Jim Crow era.

Upcoming OTAN Activities - Week of June 10

Visit the California Adult Education Professional Development Calendar. Schedule your Professional Development with OTAN today. For more ideas consult What OTAN Offers webpage and then email support@otan.us for more information.

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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.