breaking barriers - digital approaches to adult literacy
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Using Digital Media Tools for Adult Literacy
Vanessa CamilleriUniversity of Malta
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/p8ebz2r
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/ocn9qta
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Focus on …
• Self-expression• Life skills• Problem posing• Collaboration amongst learners• Learning how to learn• Culture • Language awareness
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Focus on …
• Culture • Language
awareness• Basic literacy• Skill
enhancement• Biliteracy
Source: http://tinyurl.com/h8ph9ts
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Skills based vs. Social context
• Literacy as an individual accomplishment, consisting of a set of skills that exist independently of the context (setting, situation) - phonics
• Literacy as a need of humans to communicate and share meaning using a set of social practices influenced by individual goals, collective experiences, and societal values – communication
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TECHNOLOGY TO THE LITERACY CURRICULUM?
..but how do we link
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Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication & Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic EventsInstructional Aims• Connecting background
knowledge with new information
• Connecting learner experience to reading and writing
• Building comprehension strategies (predicting from context)
Activity• Students watch video clips /
look at posters
• Small group discussions (polls/votes?)
• Student watch video clips (no sound) and predict language used
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Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication & Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic EventsInstructional Aims• Developing effective
reading strategies
• Strengthening communication skills and interaction strategies
• Linking everyday events with problem solving and literacy
Activity• Students can look at
pictures and build a story of tragic event
• Students discuss verbal and non-verbal interaction using prepared video clips
• Students role play (perhaps emergency & rescue) and fill in forms
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Sample: ‘Making Meaning: Oral Communication & Interactive Reading & Writing
Theme: Local Tragic EventsInstructional Aims• Learner experience to
develop graphic literacy
• Linking problem solving and communication skills
• Creating meaning through writing and role playing
• Building background knowledge
Activity• Students interview each other
to find out who has similar experiences
• Students watch critical video and decide how problem could be handled choosing options
• Students create their own videos in class (extending role playing)
• Guest speaker invited
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/q6fuagu
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Oral Communication – 15 mins
Theme: Local tragic events (developing the learning story) Instructional aim: Connecting learner experience to reading and writing
• What activity would lead to the aim? • What technology/digital medium would you
use? • How will you measure whether the aim has
been achieved?
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Time to listen – 10 mins
Source: http://tinyurl.com/j4t9jps
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Oral Communication – 15 mins
Theme: Local tragic events (following up on the learning story)
What is the instructional aim?What activity would lead to the aim? What technology/digital medium would you use? How will you measure whether the aim has been achieved?
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Time to listen – 10 mins
Source: http://tinyurl.com/j4t9jps
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Learning from each other is good…
But try reaching out
Source: http://tinyurl.com/pg57noy
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Connect to Twitter – 15 mins
• Sign up on Twitter.com• Go to search… #edchat• Go to search…#adultedu• Go to search…#lifelonglearning• Go to search…#eddigera• Go to:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/12/40-educational-tweeters-every-teacher.html to follow some interesting educators.
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Time to listen – 10 mins
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…and present!
Source: http://tinyurl.com/pgj738n
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…but there is more http://tinyurl.com/pal93fu
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Let’s look at other EU Projects/Resources
Source: http://tinyurl.com/h5eys4x
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Visit…
• http://caldys2.eu• http://www.theteachertoolkit.com • http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/liter
acy/21-literacy-resources-for-the-digital-teacher/
• https://adulted.musd.org/digitalresources
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Revisit your previous thoughts. Reflect, tying in what you have now found to
alternative ways in which your learners can achieve the aim. Source: http://tinyurl.com/jteybyq
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Why should all this matter?
Thank youhttp://tinyurl.com/p5w7nps