Overview

EdTech in Action sessions are your chance to explore and engage with educational technology—the ideas, tools, and techniques that use digital technology to facilitate changes in knowledge, skills, or attitudes. Each session introduces a new EdTech tool and presents two replicable EdTech routines that you can adapt for your classroom or for administrative use to build students' digital skills. In this first session, you will learn about using WhatsApp as a communication tool that supports engagement, reflection, and persistence—not just for the classroom, but for program-wide communication as well.  

    Audience

    This professional development activity/course is designed for:

  • Any instructor, administrator, or staff member looking to improve their communication with students using technology or learn about EdTech routines
Description

Are you looking to improve your virtual communication with your students beyond simple email notifications? Are you looking to find ways to use communication technology in the classroom or more effectively communicate important information to all learners in your program? Join this EdTech in Action workshop on communication with WhatsApp, which will equip you with skills and knowledge to leverage WhatsApp in unique, creative, and routine-based ways to connect with your learners. You will also have the opportunity to test out one of the WhatsApp routines during the session to model this practice and prepare to implement it.

Using World Education’s EdTech Integration Strategy Toolkit as a guide, the four-part EdTech in Action learning series explores practical EdTech routines for adult educators and program administrators. Each session will focus on a specific EdTech tool, demonstrating two key routines—one instructional and one programmatic—for its effective use. Participants will learn to identify the tool's potential, apply foundational skills to implement demonstrated routines, and adapt strategies to meet their program's unique needs. 

Format & Requirements: This course consists of one online synchronous session of 1.5 hours, as well as asynchronous work totaling around one hour. The total estimated time to complete this course is 2.5 hours.

Part 1: Independent activities in Canvas (10/6/25–10/16/25)
Part 2: Virtual session on Zoom (10/16/25, 1–2:30 p.m.)
Part 3: Reflection activity in Canvas (10/30/25–11/13/25)

Access & Support: You will receive instructions for accessing the synchronous session via Zoom and course materials in Canvas from Sovanna Carnell Guyon. If you need technical assistance to access the course or course features, please contact Sovanna at sovanna_carnellguyon@worlded.org.

This session is part of the EdTech in Action series. Be sure to check out the other offerings in this series: 

    Learning Objectives

    Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the basic features of WhatsApp and how they can be utilized in an adult education context, both in the classroom and program-wide
  • Analyze different classroom and programmatic applications of WhatsApp and decide which will be most effective in your professional context
  • Experiment with one WhatsApp EdTech routine and evaluate how you could adapt and utilize this in your work
Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s)
Eliana Stanislawski
Date
10/06/2025 - 9:00 am
10/16/2025 - 1:00 pm to 10/16/2025 - 2:30 pm
End Date
Location

United States

PD Team
SABES Program Support Team
SABES Program Support PD Team - Digital Literacy
Topic Area
Digital Literacy
Distance and Blended Learning
IPQ05: Instruction and Assessment
Program Support
PDP Eligible
No
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