Adult ESOL

Lynda TerrillTechnical Assistance and Web Coordinator

CAELA NetworkCenter for Applied Linguistics

Washington, DC

Decreasing the Digital Divide in Adult Education, Family Literacy, and English to

Speakers of Other Languages

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Technology and Adult ESL

Working together for common goals:

CAELA LINCS

NCFL ALRC

OTAN Project Ideal

TESOL REEP

Center for Literacy Studies

Thinkfinity VALRC

and many more and more to come

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Who we are

Center for Applied Linguistics

http://www.cal.org

Center for Adult English Language Acquisition, (CAELA)

http://www,cal.org/caela

CAELA Network

http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork

Cultural Orientation Resource Center

http://www.cal.org/co

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Serving Our Audience

Web sites

Our work with states

User service requests

Technical assistance

Our link to LINCS

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CAELA Web site

http://www.cal.org/caela

Tools

ESL resources

Research

Ask CAELA

Links

Newsletter

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URLs

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/usetech.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/linkscriteria.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/softwareval.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/research/raell.pdf

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/collections/reading.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/guide.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/scb/hawaii.html

http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/healthindex.htmlhttp://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/languageinstructionEng.pdf

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CAELA Network Website

http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork

Resource database

CAELA network states

Professional development resources

Ask the expert

Glossary

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Conclusions

It’s all interconnected (44.3% ESL, 39.4%ABE, 16.3%ASE; OVAE enrollment year 04-05)

At least two strands of the digital divide: learners and practitioners; decreasing for both, but issues remain

Times have changed, but…

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Finally,

Thank you for attending this panel presentation

For further information, please go to

www.cal.org/caela

www.cal.org/caelanetwork

or contact me at lterrill@cal.org

Thanks,

Lynda