Using Digital Media Tools for Adult Literacy

Vanessa CamilleriUniversity of Malta

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Focus on …

• Self-expression• Life skills• Problem posing• Collaboration amongst learners• Learning how to learn• Culture • Language awareness

Focus on …

• Culture • Language

awareness• Basic literacy• Skill

enhancement• Biliteracy

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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

TECHNOLOGY TO THE LITERACY CURRICULUM?

..but how do we link

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

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

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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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?

Time to listen – 10 mins

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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?

Time to listen – 10 mins

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Learning from each other is good…

But try reaching out

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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.

Time to listen – 10 mins

…and present!

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Let’s look at other EU Projects/Resources

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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

Revisit your previous thoughts. Reflect, tying in what you have now found to

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Why should all this matter?

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