Overview

This session maps digital skills and tools to instructional routines through the lens of content, process, and product, helping ELA, ESOL, and Math instructors expand their learners' aural and oral communication skills while building digital and AI literacy. Participants consider how focused listening, data gathering surveys, and team tasks can deepen content knowledge, strengthen communication skills, and support digital literacy development across all three instructional contexts.

    Audience

    This professional development activity/course is designed for:

  • Adult Education/ESOL instructors at all levels
Description

Digital fluency and AI literacy are now essential companions to language and math instruction, as adults increasingly listen to, respond to, and create content using digital tools and AI-powered platforms in the workplace, in education, and in their communities. This session offers three practical, ed-tech routines that build learners' aural and oral communication skills while strengthening their digital and AI literacy. Using the lens of context, process, and product, this interactive workshop allows participants to consider ways to use focused listening tasks to increase comprehension; explore different data gathering and chart creation tasks; and use team tasks to integrate AI and digital literacy to effectively communicate.


PLEASE NOTE: 

  • Before the course opens, registrants will receive a separate email with instructions on how to access your course in Canvas. If you do not receive these instructions, please check your Spam folder and/or send an email to nruskin@edc.org.

    Learning Objectives

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

  • Identify the intersection of speaking and listening instruction, digital literacy, and authentic workplace, community, and academic communication tasks
  • Use instructional technology tools and effective teaching routines to help learners apply speaking and listening strategies to digital communication tasks, including those that may involve AI-supported technologies
  • Design learning experiences which enable adult learners to create digital products demonstrating their speaking and listening skills while building digital communication practices that support workforce readiness and lifelong learning
Presenter(s) / Facilitator(s)
Date
09/30/2026 - 2:00 pm to 09/30/2026 - 4:00 pm
Location

United States

PD Team
C&I PD Centers Collaboration
SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum and Instruction PD Team
SABES English Language Arts Curriculum & Instruction PD Team
SABES English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Curriculum & Instruction PD Team
Topic Area
Digital Literacy
English Language Arts
ESOL/English Learners
IPQ05: Instruction and Assessment
Math & Numeracy
PDP Eligible
No
Canvas Sync Enabled
Off