Research/Report
Author(s): Aydin Durgunoğlu, Erin Cary, Jack Hartford, and Kiana Yarbrough, University of Minnesota, Duluth; and Leah Hauge, Northstar/Literacy Minnesota
We have created the new, free curriculum CILIA-T (Content-Integrated Language Instruction for Adults with Technology Support) to develop the U.S. history and civics knowledge, digital skills, and English proficiencies of adult language learners. The curriculum focuses on academic vocabulary, critical thinking, and learners’ existing knowledge. During the first pilot implementation of this curriculum, we observed the classrooms and gave some digital tests to the learners. In this report, we document the digital landscape in adult education classrooms, the wide variety of digital contexts, the challenges adults face, and some of the solutions we observed.