In our digital age, adults are expected to read, respond to, and create online articles and documents, analyze and compose social media posts, and write and reply to both business and casual emails. This session explores edtech routines that enhance learners' reading and writing skills by integrating authentic digital workplace, community, and academic tasks into ESOL lessons. Critical reading is central to digital literacy, and ESOL learners at all levels can apply reading strategies to both print and online texts. Communicating and collaborating online with well-organized, coherent, and clear writing is essential for success in the workplace, and ESOL learners can expand their writing strategies to encompass digital tasks.

This session will equip ESOL teachers with edtech routines to support learners in applying and expanding their reading and writing strategies for the digital world. As learners engage with these strategies, they not only strengthen their language skills but also become adept at navigating, consuming, and creating online content.

This session is the third in a series on digital literacy for English learners:

• Session 1: Opening Digital Doors: Developing English Learners’ Digital Resilience (10/10, 2 - 4 p.m.)
• Session 2: Opening Digital Doors: Developing English Learners’ Digital Literacy Through Speaking and Listening Tasks (10/24, 2 - 4 p.m.)
• Session 3: Opening Digital Doors: Developing English Learners’ Digital Literacy Through Reading and Writing Tasks (11/7, 2 - 4 p.m.)

If you are interested in this topic, but are unable to attend all of the sessions as outlined here, please see our resource collection on the SABES website at: https://sabes.org/pd-center-resources/34

Note: Before the course opens, registrants will receive a separate email with instructions on how to access the synchronous sessions via Zoom. If you do not receive these instructions, please check your Spam folder and/or email to nruskin@edc.org.