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Speaker 1: OTAN-- Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Susan Gaer: So how did we end up starting with the Triple E Framework? As an International Society of Technology for Educators-- called ISTE-- member, I was always looking out for content that I could adapt to adult learner. As you know, most of ISTE is K-12, but we're finessing it now to become more adult-level.

And I found this book called Learning First, Technology Second, and it was by Liz Kolb. And I was immediately intrigued as, when I read the book, I felt so many things similar to how she was thinking about technology and integration. So I bought the book and found the Triple E Framework. I also turned Christy Reyes onto this framework, and she's helped us a lot with developing our ideas about this for adult ed.

So we're going to use the words "framework" and "model" interchangeably here just in case, because sometimes I use "framework," and sometimes I use the word "model." OK, next, Debbie.

So the book was really focused on K-12, and it was very hard for me to use it in adult ed. However, her research and her focus was just what adult educators needed. So Christy and I convinced OTAN and this wonderful team of teachers to help convert it into a framework that adult educators can use.

Now, let me tell you just a little bit about Liz Kolb. She's a clinical psychologist with the University of Michigan, and she used this research for her PhD. She did a lot of classroom observations in K-12, and she found that teachers were using technology, but mostly for fun, gaming, behavioral purposes instead of for cognitive purposes. Her framework is easy to use so that teachers can easily see what the student is learning and how technology engages with, enhances, and/or extends learning outside the classroom. Next slide.

So today's objective is to review the Triple E Framework of engagement, enhancement, and extension, and to take a look at the OTAN's Triple E Framework for Adult Education Moodle course. Next, please.

So how does this framework differ from other frameworks? You might be familiar with SAMR and/or TPACK. SAMR, as you can see here, is very linear, and it focuses on the technology and on the teacher. It assumes that teachers want students to move up the SAMR ladder. This framework is so straight up and down, and we all know that learning is messy, so it's overly simplified.

The other framework over here is called TPACK, and it's a framework which looks like a Venn diagram. While the framework is useful and valid, it is extremely complicated for a classroom teacher to use. The Triple E Framework uses this type of Venn diagram but is much, much more focused on student learning and not overly nonlinear. So Jennifer will describe this framework in the next slide.

Jennifer Gagliardi: So here we have the Triple E Framework Venn diagram. We're focusing on three big areas-- engagement, enhancement, and extension. We're taking all these into account, and we're trying to get to the sweet spot, the integration of technology in our classrooms and our activities.

Let's talk about engagement first. We're focusing on time on task. Is the technology helping us to focus on that task? We're talking about co-use. Are students using the technology together, and is technology helping them achieve their learning goals?

Next, I would like to talk about enhancement. Does the use of technology add value to the lessons that are being learned? And also, technology is used to scaffold the material that the students are learning, and they're trying to differentiate or personalize the lesson plans so people can use the technology to personalize these lesson plans.

And finally, we move to extension. We're trying to tap into students' authentic experiences. We're trying to connect learning 24/7 so people are learning outside the classroom. What they learn inside the classroom is applied outside of the classroom. And also, we're trying to develop their soft skills. Next, please.

Susan Coulter: First we want to look at engagement. I love technology, and I'm always excited to try a new technology tool. But as Susan mentioned and Liz Kolb stresses, learning goals need to come first, and technology second. As we're preparing our lessons, we need to ask ourselves a few questions. Next.

Number one, does the technology allow students to focus on the task of the assignment or activity with less distraction? One of the key elements about engagement is the fact that students are active in the learning process. The technology allows them to focus on the task. Next.

Number two, does the technology motivate students to start the learning process? Does it get them up and get them going? Does it motivate students to immerse themselves in the learning? I've heard engagement described as the hook that grabs the student and pulls them into the lesson. Next.

Does the technology cause shift in the behavior of students where they move from passive to active social learners? Years ago, I was teaching ABE, and I wanted my students to learn the steps on how to write a research paper. And I could have gone through the steps, created a handout, and given them a lesson on the research paper, but I tried a different reproach.

As a class, we decided on a topic-- Elvis Presley. Students worked in groups on the computers to research Elvis's life. We printed different articles, made copies of them in our reading group. I gave students highlighters to mark what was important. We created an outline and then wrote our paper.

But we didn't stop there. We again divided into groups. Each group was responsible to create a video clip of a different part of his life-- childhood, education, military, et cetera. Each group had to insert images, and every person in their group had to narrate at least one sentence.

Students didn't miss class. They were definitely engaged. We put all the clips together. They showed their work to an ESL class, and many of my students requested their own copies. They were so proud. That was one of my best lessons ever.

I now know why. It had many of the elements of the Triple E Framework, especially engagement. Next.

Very important to Triple E is co-use. Liz Kolb defines it as the person-to-person social use of a digital tool. Think about pairing students to work together on a learning activity by using a technology tool.

Your lesson doesn't have to be as involved as mine, but just adding turn and talk can make a difference. This is where students turn to a partner and discuss the subject before sharing with the whole group. You can ask students to turn and talk about what they are learning using the technology tool. It gives students a sounding board and more confidence to express themselves in the group.

Or think-aloud. This is where the teacher verbalizes what he or she is thinking while reading or working out loud. You can use model and then have students do the same in small groups. You can also use paraphrasing, and that's having the students put what the author is saying in their own words. You could use a tablet.

You can also use graphic organizers to improve their comprehension. You can also read the first part of a story and then have your students predict what will happen next, or maybe have them create a Google slide with their story idea. These are just a few ideas to make your lessons more engaging. Think about how you can make your lessons more engaging.

Don't worry. We have a cheat sheet with numerous examples on how you can make your lessons more engaging. Next, let's look at enhancing our lessons, and I'm going to turn that over to Alisa.

Alisa Takeuchi: Thank you so much, Susan. So now that you have an idea of how to engage your students, let's talk about enhancing your lesson plans. We saw, in one of the beginning slides, incorporating activities that enhance your lesson adds value to them, scaffolds and supports them, and differentiates and personalizes them. Let's take a look at three questions that you want to ask yourself regarding enhancement.

Question number one-- does the technology tool aid students in developing or demonstrating a more sophisticated understanding of the content? To enhance a lesson, teachers want to create opportunities for creation and/or production over consumption, meaning that after content is introduced, scaffolded activities are developed and used for students to gain a broader understanding of the content. The tools should be meaningful and impactful, not just a time-filler.

For example, if students are being introduced to new grammar, just adding YouTube videos or online worksheets aren't enough. Being passive with materials only adds quantity to the content. When students share how the video relates to the textbook or worksheet amongst each other, they then demonstrate understanding with critical thinking skills. This is an indicator to the instructor that the enhancement activities allowed students to demonstrate their understanding. If this cannot be demonstrated yet, more enhancement activities are added.

Question two-- does the technology create scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas? As it was stated in the previous slide, scaffolds are meant as stepping stones for students to gradually master a concept, not add more complexity to an already unknown topic. If the specific content is not mastered by the students with deeper understanding, more scaffolding is needed, but again, not just for the sake of doing more. It's to give students different opportunities to practice before moving on.

Question three-- does the technology create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools? By giving students a choice in how they demonstrate their learning, instructors are empowering students to be self-confident. This, in turn, ensures students will learn more at an accelerated rate.

The cookie-cutter method of instruction does not always work for all students. Like you, your students gain knowledge in different ways. Some actually learn better by studying for an exam. Some would prefer to create a presentation. Others may enjoy leading a group project. By introducing several different ways to express knowledge, students can break their own barriers to learning by selecting which fits best for them.

Here are some of the examples from the cheat sheet. As Susan talked about, turn and talk, or turn and teach, is an excellent way for students to demonstrate their knowledge to another. For example, students can share new vocabulary words they learned after doing a Burlington English unit and help identify the meanings with each other.

Graphic organizers allow students to categorize and mentally prepare them to take the knowledge they gained to the next level. After watching a video, students can work in groups to organize what they saw-- perhaps make a word map with verb tenses. Exit tickets are a quick and easy way for students to demonstrate knowledge at the end of the day. When given a prompt, students can write a quick note or draw a picture to show if they understood or if they liked the way it was presented. If students can organize main ideas into subcategories, sequencing, timelines, and family trees, these are all ways to show understanding.

Differentiated instruction allows all students to learn in different ways. The instructor provides multiple ways to learn, and in turn, the students learn multiple ways to demonstrate learning. Metacognitive strategies, the most empowering gift you can provide students, is the ability for them to understand how best they learn. Do they learn best by listening, reading, taking notes, or watching a video? When instructors provide multiple means of learning, students gauge what works best for them and can adapt on their own.

Now that you have a better understanding of how to enhance your lessons, Debbie will introduce extension to you.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you, Alisa.

Extension is the third and last component of the Triple E Framework. In some ways, it's what we're aiming at with all the others. We want to bring the school experience into our learners' homes and into their work. Next.

The questions-- next. Thank you. The questions that we want to ask and that are part of the rubric-- so that's where these questions came from. There's a rubric that you can use to evaluate your lessons, and these are some of those questions.

So the questions are these. Does the technology create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day? Next. Does the technology create a bridge between school learning and everyday life experience? Next. Does the technology allow students to build skills that they can use in their everyday lives? Next.

Extension is accomplished by using real-world connections in our classes. This can be accomplished with problems reflecting situations in their jobs or lives. Capture daily experiences in your lessons-- simply-done fraction or percentage problems bring in shopping or cooking where students use their phones to share what they find. You keep students learning anywhere, anytime.

Extension allows students to take what they're learning in class into their lives. They can practice critical thinking, decision-making, and problem solving. They acquire a big-picture perspective. For me, this is the proof of the learning. Students are empowered to integrate their knowledge, make their own observations, and bring in other contexts.

So your choice of tech tools can facilitate skills they take away from your class-- tech not just to be used in class, but tech that can be used in their lives, now and in the future. Consider what skills they might need.

Collaboration-- this applies every day when they might be doing things like Facebook or Groups or using Zoom. Curation-- this requires critical thinking for them to gather knowledge and then evaluate whether the knowledge has bearing on the truth. Organizational skills-- applying Evernote or Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. Using it here in the classroom can extend to them using it in their lives. There's virtual tools that help students design, deliver, and support what they learn, such as creating a YouTube.

Another area that is important that was brought to my attention by my boss, John Kerr, when he came to me and said that our CTE students are prepared, and yet they go out, and sometimes they don't keep the job because they don't have soft skills. Our classrooms are great opportunities to prepare our students with those soft skills that they're going to need on their job, things like time management, professionalism, working in a group. Next.

You can focus in-classroom activities to prepare your students with the tools that they're going to need to extend their learning into their everyday lives. Here are a few. Can use distributed, spaced practice. So whatever they learn today, they're going to revisit it next week and the week after that and the week after that, which reflects the real world, when problems crop up all over the place and at any time.

They can expand online writing. Most of our students text each other. They use Facebook and Instagram already. We can help improve their writing and expose them to other avenues of writing. I had a student who, through our classrooms, writing, was able to make himself less likely to be laid off because his supervisor depended on him to write the weekly reports.

We can introduce inquiry-based instruction where students create questions about what they want to learn. In reciprocal questioning, also known as ReQuest, the role of teacher and student is reversed, and the students create their own questions about a topic or lesson. Think of what they'll learn when they have to try and teach the topic.

Finally, include ways to connect with the real world in your classroom. Use real-world issues. Partner with real-world organizations. Connect with authentic experts. Offer opportunities for students to connect with community partners.

The success of any teacher is in knowing you have prepared your students for their lives. They don't live very long in our classrooms. They move on. Our job is to ensure that they have the tools to grow, thrive, and succeed outside our doors. Now we want to show you the courses created.

Blair, next?

Blair Roy: All righty. Well, I have the great pleasure of showing you the course that we developed. It's currently in Moodle. It will eventually be moving over to Canvas, but I'm going to take you live, which means I need to share. And I apologize that I'm looking in odd places, but that happens to be the function of my system. So I apologize I'm not looking directly at you. I will in a minute. OK, let's see if I can get this right. Can somebody give me a confirmation that you're looking at the Moodle course, please?

Debbie Jensen: Yes.

Susan Gaer: We are.

Blair Roy: Yay! OK.

So here is the Triple E Framework course, developed over the course of a year. And we'll get started. So what we wanted to do was to provide a way for us to help teachers learn how to incorporate the Triple E Framework into their lessons effectively. So we've developed this course that, hopefully, provides that. We've had one pilot go through, and you'll be hearing from some of them today.

The course starts off with a-- we have some basic accessibility statement, course acknowledgment, resource, links, and then how to navigate the course. Then, we go into the meat of the course with week 1 and week 2. In the week 1, we have introduction, and as you see, we have a lot of forums in week 1. We used forums in the course to build community and to get active discussion going with the participants.

And I'd just like to show you what we did with the first forum. We gave the participants of the course an option to either write their response or to record their response to introduce themselves to the rest of the participants and to maybe share a unique fact that no one else, or none of the other participants in the course, would know about them.

So I just got permission to show you. I'm going to show you a little clip that I thought was just wonderful. Oh, except that when I shared-- let me get the sound going. Hopefully, this is going to work. And I'm hoping I'm pronounce-- I'm not going to say anything. I'll do it afterwards.

She is in the room, Bilquis. And I could be wrong on that, but you're going to find out in just a second.

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- Do you know what the Arabic name of the Queen of Sheba is? Well, if you guessed Bilquis, you guessed my first name. Don't know why, but my father wanted to name me after a queen.

Hi, I'm Bilquis Ahmed, and I teach ABE at South Bay Adult School in Redondo Beach, California. I've been doing that for the last two years, but prior to that, since 2001, I had been teaching ESL.

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Blair Roy: I just wanted to give you a little taste of what that was like. In the course, probably half of the students actually did the video, and half of them did a written introduction. But I just thought that was so powerful, and really, I feel like I already know her now.

I still can't pronounce her name correctly. I need to practice it, but I apologize. "Bil-queese"? I hope I got it right.

Debbie Jensen: "Bil-keese."

Blair Roy: "Bil-keest." OK, "keese." Hit that. OK, thank you so much. I'll have it now.

So we also used our forums for video reflections, so the participants would watch a video. These happened to be by Susan Gaer and Liz, and then they would reflect. So the first week, we did a lot of forums, so there was a lot of discussion and building of community.

In week 2, we go into the basics. We introduced a book component. And what this did was allow the students to go through, within the course, and to read everything they needed to read about the Triple E Framework.

And you can see, if we look over here at the table of contents, we have a section for engagement. We have information that they read. And then, we presented scenarios where they could think about the different situations with engagement and with enhancement and extension.

I went too far out? No. If anybody has any questions, please don't hesitate to put them in the chat. I can multitask sometimes.

So once we got into-- oh, Oh I'm sorry. So we had the reading. Then, again, we had more forums. Oh, we also added-- if anybody's familiar with SMART goals. We wanted our participants to create a SMART goal for themselves as they went through the course to help focus on what they were trying to gain from going through this course.

And then, in each section, we have this fun with failure. And what we did with this is we thought that it would be really good for the participants to see the coaches. There were six of us that created the course, and we've all been teaching, and we've all had situations where things just didn't go right. The one that I wrote about was, what do you do when you've got this great lesson plan set up and ready to go, and you're going to be on the computers that day, and the electricity goes out?

So just being ready for plan B, plan C, and maybe even plan D. You just never know. So with the Fun With Failure, each week we had different coaches write some of their failures that they had learned from, their lesson failures, and then the students would read those. And then, we got a lot of feedback from our participants on things that they were willing to share with us, things that had happened to them. So that gave us a really rich conversation and discussion going with what do you do in those situations, and just building that community.

So now we get into the Triple E Framework part? So we had three weeks of this. We had a week of engagement, a week of enhancement, and a week focusing on extension. And each of these weeks were set up consistently so that the students learned very quickly, or the participants learned quickly how to go about it.

We started off with a Padlet activity-- how do you enhance your lessons? So each participant would go in, and they would start thinking about it, and then they would share that. And what I really liked about this-- you also got feedback from other students. They would read each other's, and then they would make comments on that particular post.

Another book reading, and then we go into a forum, Let's Talk About Enhancement. And then, we get into the lesson. So what we did as coaches-- we decided that what we would do is to help our participants learn how to actually add engagements. We would present a lesson that didn't have any engagement in it, or any of the ease in it, and then we would take them through systematically.

So in here, you can see we had the five different program areas. If we look at ABE, math, reading, and writing were all represented. And we gave them the original lesson plan that only had-- it was just a lesson plan without any engagement or enhancement or extension added, and it was set up in the Wikipedia format.

As they go through the lesson, we then gave them the opportunity to, using the rubric-- we had a rubric-- how would they rate this lesson? So we're having them think about the lesson they just read through, and how would they add enhancement to that? I'm just going to go through this real quickly.

Then, we had them think about more ways to incorporate in, and we give them the cheat sheet. And I'm going to go ahead, and I'll show you the cheat sheet right now, and then we'll have an opportunity to download it later if anybody's interested. So the cheat sheet was put together by Debbie Jensen but developed by everyone in the course. Debbie did 99% of the work. Let's give Debbie the kudos.

So what we did is we go through and we have all of these different things that you heard the presenters actually talk about, some of the different educational practices. And then, Debbie organized it to engagement, enhancement, and extension. And so you've got this wonderful sheet that you can go through, and then each of the links takes you out to other places to give you more information on those. So if anybody's interested in this, you'll have an opportunity to download it towards the end. And I'll give you just one more.

So now we're at the lesson. So we've shown them the original lesson plan, so now what we're going to do is show them a lesson plan where enhancement has already been added. Since we're enhancement, they also had the benefit of seeing where the engagement, and they have enhancement activities put into the lesson as well.

So the theory is that we wanted them to take an original lesson plan that they have. Add engagement activities, enhancement activities, and extension activities so that they would have a very robust lesson at the end, incorporating all of the Triple E. So that's what the lesson plans look like.

And how am I doing on time, guys? 9:04. OK.

So as part of their assignment, they would add their components, and then they would upload them into the course for grading. And then, we also use Padlet again to have each of the participants upload their lesson plans. And this way, all of the participants could see everyone's lesson plans. So we're getting a nice repository of lessons, and everybody can see the different activities that everyone used.

And let's see. So Padlet lesson plans. So we've done enhancement, engagement, and extension. Another Fun With Failure.

We had a couple of games, H5P games, that were added to the course. And the final project was for each of the participants to take a new, original plan and add all of the E components-- engagement, enhancement, and extension. And we have a lot of resources in the course. We actually offered an effective lesson-planning reading for the students and the cheat sheet.

And so there you have it. Do we have any questions on the course, anything that I may have forgotten to touch upon? And I'm not seeing anything in the chat. OK.

Let me go over here. I think that I am finished with sharing the course. I'm going to go ahead and stop sharing and let the slideshow resume. We will give you the link to the cheat sheet a little bit later. Mary?

Debbie Jensen: It's my opportunity to share with you what happened with our first cohort. As one of the team captains, it was a great opportunity for me. My team was spectacular. And I heard the same praise from every other coach.

We were so excited by our participants and the work that they put in. They were the first, and so they found so many great ideas that they thought would make things better. And our wonderful Blair was busy every week, changing things to make things better, and so we're very grateful to them for the efforts that they made.

So we posed some questions to them to ask them what they learned and what they wanted to share with you. And so, first, we want to have them address you and let you know what they learned. So the first question we asked them was what was the biggest takeaway. And so I will let Cindy talk about what she learned. And Cindy, go ahead. Tell everybody who you are so that they can relate to the program you're in and stuff.

Cindy Wislofsky: Hi, everybody. I'm Cindy Wislofsky, and a longtime ESL faculty member in San Diego with the adult division of the community college district. And although I'm retired now, I was very, very interested in learning more about the Triple E. I'd heard about it over the years but had never utilized it.

So when I had the opportunity to jump on board, I really wanted to take the course to find out more about it. And so I would say my biggest takeaway was to be more mindful about your reasons for using technology so that it's purposeful, it's productive, it's collaborative. And it really puts learning for the real world, I would say, at the forefront.

And I know you'll be happy to hear that I did not use any of the Es in my description because it's so easy just to talk about engagement, enhancement, and extension. And one of the best things for me is all the questions for the three Es that you all have already presented. But I blew them up, and I put them on a sheet of paper in a plastic sheet protector, and I think that's so helpful. It provides you with a terrific tool as you are developing lessons.

And a big shout-out to Debbie as our super facilitator, and I know you'll be proud of me that I have this as a handy resource.

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Thank you.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you, Cindy.

Jerry, I think you had a comment you wanted to make about the biggest takeaway.

Jerry Yamashita: Yeah. Good morning, everyone. My name's Jerry Yamashita. I'm a instructional technologist at Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in Sacramento. And I think this was really great. I think my biggest takeaway was that we finally really have a framework that-- actually, I think one of the most important parts comes before any of the Es, and that's really designing something that is meaningful and that's authentic at work so that it can be enhanced by this framework.

And that's really important. I think that oftentimes we jump right into the technology because it's fun and shiny and new, and we forget that there's actually a lesson plan and an approach that's really, really important. And so I think that was my biggest takeaway-- that this was really practitioner-friendly and not so much theory and not so much super academic, but this was really something that people could wrap their heads around and get and use the next day. So I think that's a pretty cool thing. So thank you.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you, Jerry. One of our participants wanted to include her thoughts, but she's at a retreat that she could not get out of. We tried to twist her arm, but she couldn't. So this was from Christina Lett.

"My biggest takeaway was that Liz Kolb identified specific, concrete goals that teachers should identify and implement in their lessons for real, conceptual learning at a time when a push for technology has grown and used disproportionately to the amount of real and actual conceptual learning that is taking place. What I would like to say about the Triple E course is that it highlights a growing need to understand and use technology in a way to truly aid conceptual learning, not just to use technology for technology's sake. Especially since the COVID shutdowns, the use of technology may have forced teachers away from truly thinking about how to really implement conceptual learning.

It focuses on what students do with technology. It helps in the planning of engaging activities, having the students communicate and create, using technology with specific, concrete features to point to engagement, enhancement, and extension activities in a way to use the framework. I love the cheat sheet.

My biggest takeaway was that Liz Kolb identified specific, concrete goals that teachers should identify and implement in their lessons."

Oh, you know what? I think this is a repeat. I'm sorry. So she enjoyed it, and it was fun working with her. And so we're grateful for her efforts, too.

All right, let's go to the next question. Next. Can you say more about what you were doing with your lesson plans pre-Triple E, and what changed when you began using Triple E?

Now, Bilquis, would you share with us what you learned?

Bilquis Ahmed: Good morning, everybody. Happy to be here. And a shout-out to Susan Coulter, who was our fantastic coach.

I used Padlet a lot before the Triple E course. But when I would engage the students, hook them at the beginning, I usually used Think-Pair-Share. Now I discovered Edpuzzle. I don't know how many of you know that, but it shows videos, and it stops it and asks questions, and the students have to think about it and respond. They can do it remotely. They can do it in person with a handout, and that seems to really engage them.

I teach a lot of writing. And as people know, writing is definitely a solitary act. But I found co-use to be so important. So now I pair up the students and have them write paragraphs together. And as they do so, they are more contemplative. They discuss what needs to be done, and they take their time. They probe it much more deeply.

Another thing that I had them do was to create graphic organizers with Google Draw. Like somebody had mentioned, instead of giving them all the resources, have them create things. So they would do that. Also, with Google Docs, create rubrics for the assignments, for the paragraph assignments.

And my students are very busy. I'm sure all your students are so busy with life and work and school. And I always hesitated to give them assignments out of class, any kind of homework. But I found that to extend the lessons beyond the classroom, it helps them to reiterate what they've learned in class. So now I give them extension exercises where they have to just post a video on Padlet about some time that they have used the concept that we've learned in class.

Thank you. Back to you, Debbie.

Debbie Jensen: Oh, I love those ideas. I feel like I need to write them all down. Thank you. Anna, could you tell us what you did before, and then changes you've made?

Anna Walker: I'm Anna Walker. I work at Pasadena City College, instructor. I work mostly with developmentally disabled adults. And I think that, for me, I'm going to be a little bit more general than Bilquis because I haven't actually begun using some of these in my actual classes.

But I can say that before I took this class, my lesson plans-- even though I think I was naturally using some of these types of enhancement and engagement, I don't think I intentionally was looking at how they work together. So I think that, once I took this course, it just really made me think intentionally and plan for that idea of having all of this come together to create lesson plans that really make these work together.

My students aren't necessarily technologically savvy. So I think that one thing that is important to understand about these whole concepts, although I we talk about technology, and we talk about using this particular app or whatever-- even if your students aren't technologically savvy, the ideas behind this-- you can use all three of these. Even if you never opened up a computer, you could use all three of these.

And that's what I really got from this. I think that enhancement wasn't really on my radar before, and I'm really starting to think about how I can have my students create more of their own questions and just become more involved in that learning process for themselves. Extension-- some extension is built into my classes because I teach functional living skills. So of course, we're always taking the shopping and the addition and subtraction into the community and that sort of thing.

But I think, for me, just understanding more about how these three components work together to create more of a customized plan for your students-- that was really what changed for me, was just the thinking intentionally.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. That was wonderful. I appreciate that very much.

Question number three. Walk through one of the changes you made to your lessons incorporating the three Es. And we've got Song. Would you like to speak to that?

Speaker 2: Debbie, I'm sorry. I don't think Song is here.

Debbie Jensen: Oh, OK. Well, thank you for checking. I should have checked ahead of time to make sure. OK, Elisia, can you speak to this?

Elisia Doonan: Yes. Make sure I had put my mute off. Yes. I am with San Diego Community College, and as with Anna, I teach adults with disabilities. My class is daily communication skills.

So one of the things-- walk through the changes. Again, from what Anna had said, a lot of my students, all of them online, Zoom-- they are challenged with the computer. It was very hard for me at times, but actually, I had to look at this in another way, the changes. It was incorporating-- how am I going to use this technology to engage them?

I heard someone talk about Edpuzzle. I use that. Coming to all these workshops, webinars, I'm learning so much. So these are great tools for engagement. I thought, well, we'll just go together. You don't have to read it. We'll look at it, and it'll speak.

So that's how I've done it, the engaging-- finding new things via technology. Enhancing-- going through it step by step with my students and telling them this is what we're doing. The extension-- as Anna had said, well, we have daily communication. So I had done a lesson on shopping. I'll pull out an add. I'll use my Annotate, all these great tools that I'm learning via technology, to engage my students.

It's exciting for me because, even although they are limited. I have visually impaired, nonverbal. If they can do something, that means it's a go, via technology. And once I get to go face to face, I am just so excited that I get to share all this with them. So it's exciting. It's a new way of thinking for me, really thinking outside the box and engaging, using more technology in my Zoom.

I will tell you one big thing that I just learned just yesterday or Wednesday was Cindy's Jamboard, that little laser thing. Usually, with the Annotate, it's all over. I have to clear it. With that laser, I just go boom. It's so exciting.

So I tell you these little bits and pieces that I learned from all over. It's exciting, for me, for working with students who are digitally challenged. This is awesome.

So again, am I thinking outside the box? Absolutely. So I'm always thinking. I always have music, all kinds of stuff, engaging them. Technology through different ways.

So that's it. Thank you, Debbie, for being so supportive for us.

Debbie Jensen: Oh, it's been a joy. Thank you for your comments. That was really great.

Now, we have a question in the chat from Karen. And she said, did the teachers give feedback about their students' participation throughout this process? Did they notice a difference in their classes? And we've asked Bilquis to address question number four. Bilquis, have you tried these with your students? How have your students reacted?

Bilquis Ahmed: I have. I taught them a writing lesson on cause and effect paragraphs, and they loved it. We started with the Edpuzzle, then we did a pair work where they had to write the paragraph and submit it on Padlet. And they enjoyed that time to be able to discuss together rather than just as a class. And being together, it made it easier for them to ask questions. They didn't feel as shy.

And then, once they posted those on Padlet, I had other groups go and peer-edit. So they had to write the comments in the Padlet section. But then, they had to discuss with one other group to clarify any questions about those comments.

The other thing that they really liked was the extension. How would they apply this in their own life? And one of the students said that they had an unruly neighbor who was always making noise, and so they would use that cause and effect and then write this letter to the landlord. Another one talked about nonresidents coming in and using the tennis courts in their community because somehow they got access to the key, and then showing the effects of their leaving trash and making noise and not allowing the residents to be able to use those tennis courts.

And just last night, I was so proud. One of the students said she wrote a one-and-a-half-page email about a complaint using the cause and effect that she had for purchasing something. And so she said, I couldn't have done it without you. So I was very proud of that.

And I have to reiterate what other people have said about the course-- that we've learned so much. That cheat sheet has been invaluable. And I learned something about choice boards. I feel like I was in a vacuum before. Learning about choice boards has given me a whole new approach to having students submit their work. So they can do it via writing or as a slideshow or even a video. And I think giving students that choice empowers them.

So it's been wonderful. The students have reacted wonderfully with it. They feel more engaged. They feel that they're learning a lot more. I think it's becoming something that's embodied in them rather than a concept, and then they leave it, and that's it.

Thank you. Back to you.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. Appreciate that so much. As an ABE teacher, I very much gravitate to what you've said because many of these engagement activities are built into ESL. you do these things. It's just normal. But ABE-- not necessarily. It's more of a standard kind of classroom.

And when I read that the amount of learning that takes place when you do not do co-use goes way down, I thought, well, I'm working really hard, but they're not getting it. And so I was really, really thrilled with just small changes you can make in your class to bring in that co-use in an ABE classroom, in a CTE classroom, in high school classroom so that the students are more successful. So I very much appreciated it. Thank you for your ideas.

I think, Jennifer, you had a comment you would like to make.

Jennifer Gagliardi: Yes. Recently, we were doing a colabs related to medical services. And especially around COVID, we were using the apps with a literacy-level student population to make appointments to get our booster shots, et cetera, et cetera. And how do you find this using Google Maps to find the places to get the shots, using county resources to make appointments, et cetera, et cetera?

And then, also people were sharing their experiences going into the clinics themselves and what happened during the clinic. So we were using sequencing activities to talk about that.

However, what happened recently is a student had to go-- her husband was not able to take her to her medical appointment, which she always did. And because of what she had learned in the class, and thinking about things and clear, concrete steps-- now I need to go to registration. Now I need to go in the waiting room, knowing how to check in with her cell phone before she even gets to the hospital-- it was really important.

The husband personally came in and thanked the entire class for participating in these activities because now he feels confident that his wife can go to the hospital by herself and be safe, because she knows what will happen because she went through this process in the classroom itself, learning about these activities. So that's it.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. That is remarkable. And I think that is teaching at its best, when we make it so that their lives are enhanced and extended and ultimately successful.

Jennifer Gagliardi: Well, I think, most importantly, it wasn't the teacher teaching. It was more like the students' teaching each other about what's happening. And so we would even do little, mini writing assignments about-- I go to Kaiser Hospital. I go to this clinic, that clinic. So talking about these things, talking about the steps, talking about using the apps was really important.

And that's who the husband thanked. He didn't thank me. He thanked the entire class.

Debbie Jensen: Very good, very good. All right.

Question number 5 is, what would you like to say about the Triple E course? And we're opening this up to everyone. So please, who would like to speak first? Because we'd like you all to make your comments. Bilquis, would you like to start?

Bilquis Ahmed: Sure.

I think it's already been said. Everything that we've learned has been so valuable. That Triple E cheat sheet was eye-opening. I didn't realize how many ways to engage, enhance, and extend. But it gave ideas that led to other ideas. So I would just have to say, the biggest thing was that it opened my mind to so many more possibilities, and not just carrying on my lesson plans in a rote way. So thank you all for that.

Debbie Jensen: Thank you. I appreciate the fact that you guys were all fabulous teachers to start with, that you weren't beginners. You were fabulous first, and this all made you better. And I think that's really exciting.

We have a question from Karen?

Karen Weldon: Yes. So actually, I wasn't in your Triple E framework, but three of my teachers did go through the course, and I would like to comment from an outside looking in. I was very interested in the course. When I reached out to Susan, I said, look, this is really important to me.

All these bells and whistles-- we've been in COVID. We've been teaching online. But the teachers feel like they have to use every new tech tool that they're introduced to, and it's taking away from student engagement because of all the time that was being invested in how do you do this new tool? How do you do that new tool?

So I am so grateful to hear that it was rolled out as it was intended. If it does not enhance the lesson, do not use technology. I love technology. Don't get me wrong. But if that is the biggest takeaway-- keep it simple, keep the students engaged-- I thank you, I thank you, I thank you.