non- and low-literate students can use tech too! lisa gonzalves, uc davis catesol annual conference...
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Non- and low-literate
students can use tech too!
Lisa Gonzalves, UC DavisCATESOL Annual Conference
Anaheim, CA 2016
What is Non-literate? Low-literate?
• * Non-literate students speak a language that has a written form, but they have not learned to read or write it themselves.
• * Semi-literate students have some formal education or are able to read and write but only at an elementary level.(Low- literate students – in between)
* Savage, K. Lynn. (1993). Literacy Through Competency-Based Educational Approaches in J. Crandall and J.K. Peyton (Eds.), Approaches to Adult ESL Literacy Instruction. Washington DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
‘X’ Literacy
• Print literacy• Basic literacy• Academic literacy• Computer literacy• Financial literacy• Digital literacy• Scientific literacy• Musical literacy…
= MultiliteraciesTerm coined by New London Group, 1996
- The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard educational review, 66(1), 60-93.
Partner talk
• Introduce yourself to the person next to youAsk and Answer:1. Are you working with non- or low-literate students?2. What type of technology do you have in your
classroom? 3. Are you using these technologies with non- and
low- literate Ss in the classroom? With other levels?4. Do you have in-classroom help?5. Do your non- or low-literate students have
cellphones? Smartphones?
Technology in the classroom
• Overhead projector (transparencies)• VHS/DVD player• Document cameras• Projector• Teacher laptop/desktop• WIFI/Internet connection• Cellphones• Student computers/laptops• Tablets
Technology in the classroom
• Overhead projector (transparencies)• VHS/DVD player• Document cameras• Projector• Teacher laptop/desktop• WIFI/Internet connection• Cellphones• Student computers/laptops• Tablets
Cellphones address adult L1 illiteracy
ALEX© mobile program – CANADA (2010, 2014)• Increasing users' motivation and interest in
learning• Raising their confidence levels
PROJECT ABC – NIGER (2010)• Results suggest that simple information
technology could be a simple and low-cost way to promote adult’s educational outcomes
• Aker, J. C., Ksoll, C., & Lybbert, T. J. (2010). ABC, 123: The impact of a mobile phone literacy program on educational outcomes. Available at SSRN 1694142.
• Lumsden, J., Leung, R., D'amours, D., & McDonald, D. (2010). ALEX©: a mobile adult literacy experiential learning application. International journal of mobile learning and organisation, 4(2), 172-191.
• Munteanu, C., Molyneaux, H., Maitland, J., McDonald, D., Leung, R., Fournier, H., & Lumsden, J. (2014). Hidden in plain sight: low-literacy adults in a developed country overcoming social and educational challenges through mobile learning support tools. Personal and ubiquitous computing, 18(6), 1455-1469.
Partner talk
• Tell your partner all the things you can do with your cell phone.
• Can your non- or low-literate students do these same things? Which yes/which no?
“Since nowadays most people, even those at the bottom of the income pyramid, are in the possession of a mobile phone, researchers should not underestimate and ignore this newly created, vibrant and fertile domain for informal learning practices. … The mobile phone has become a learning tool, nourishing learning practices and in an unprecedented way….”
• Velghe, F. (2012). I wanna go in the phone”: Illiteracy, informal learning processes,‘voice’and mobile phone appropriation in a South African township.Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 40.
“I wanna go in the phone” (2012)
Cellphones
• #1 – Audio recordings• #2 – Camera function• #3 – Video recordings• #4 – Apps (Google Voice, Google
Translate)
#1 Audio recordings
Japanese numbers 1 – 5
Find your voice recording app
“Voice Recorder”
“Voice Memo”
Activity: Recording word list
#2 Camera
“I wanna go in the phone” (2012)
K: Sometimes the children they ask me to take a picture then I TRY and I TRY and I then I tried and I look and then ALL of the sudden I get it yes and then I know how to take the picture / and that’s all
Int: But then you don’t find the picture back afterwards because it’s somewhere there in your phone
K: It it IS somewhere here in / but I don’t know where to FIND it again [laughs]
• Velghe, F. (2012). I wanna go in the phone”: Illiteracy, informal learning processes,‘voice’and mobile phone appropriation in a South African township.Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 40.
Activity: Visual Learning Tools
1.happy 2.sad3.mad4.surprised5.sleepy
Instructions:Open camera app.Teacher prompts
the word.Partner holds up
word card and ‘acts’ that emotion.
Take your partner’s picture.
#3 Video Recordings
What problems do your students have pronouncing these words?
ONETWO
THREEFOURFIVE
How do you help them with pronunciation?
Activity: Pronunciation Support
• Open the videocamera on your cellphone
• Press record• Partner says “One, one” while
holding up 1 finger, while you record• Partner says “Two, two” while holding
up 2 fingers• Continue until you finish ‘five’
#4 Google Voice
FREE!!
“The women defined success in being able to perform concrete actions that held a significant amount of importance to them. For example, the women often mentioned the ability to make phone calls. Leena recounted her experience with phones:“She said she was looking for an ‘on’ button, she didn’t knowhow to use it. . . . In Yemen, she tried. But in here she didn’ttry, because she scared that she’s gonna call the police.” The women talked about how they could only receive calls but not make them, thereby putting them at the mercy of the caller.”
Gonzalves, L. (2012). “We want to depend on us: Yemeni women name success.” In Vinogradov, P., & Bigelow, M. (Eds.), Proceedings from the 7th annual LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition) symposium, (pp. 92-109). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
“We want to depend on us” (2012)
Possible HW assignment
• Students can call teacher to report an absence
• Pretend to call in sick to work• Call to wish you happy birthday
They practice their numeracyFacing fear of talking on phone
• Happy New Year
Text is not the enemy (2012)
The speed at which [illiterate subjects] traversed the phone menus was the same as for literate people. We often had to ask our interviewees to slow down when they were showing us how they performed certain tasks on their phones. They mastered important functionality through rote learning:“After I have clicked on this icon I need to go down twice and then – click! - I’m done.”
• Knoche, H., & Huang, J. (2012). Text is not the enemy-How illiterates use their mobile phones. In NUIs for New Worlds: New Interaction Forms and Interfaces for Mobile Applications in Developing Countries-CHI 2012 workshop.
Technology in the classroom
• Overhead projector (transparencies)• VHS/DVD player• Document cameras• Projector• Teacher laptop/desktop• WIFI/Internet connection• Cellphones• Student computers/laptops• Tablets
Using Computers
Technology in the classroom
• Overhead projector (transparencies)• VHS/DVD player• Document cameras• Projector• Teacher laptop/desktop• WIFI/Internet connection• Cellphones• Tablets• Student computers/laptops
References
• Aker, J. C., Ksoll, C., & Lybbert, T. J. (2010). ABC, 123: The impact of a mobile phone literacy program on educational outcomes. Available at SSRN 1694142.
• Gonzalves, L. (2012). “We want to depend on us: Yemeni women name success.” In Vinogradov, P., & Bigelow, M. (Eds.), Proceedings from the 7th annual LESLLA (Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition) symposium, (pp. 92-109). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.
• Knoche, H., & Huang, J. (2012). Text is not the enemy-How illiterates use their mobile phones. In NUIs for New Worlds: New Interaction Forms and Interfaces for Mobile Applications in Developing Countries-CHI 2012 workshop.
References
• Lumsden, J., Leung, R., D'amours, D., & McDonald, D. (2010). ALEX©: a mobile adult literacy experiential learning application. International journal of mobile learning and organisation, 4(2), 172-191.
• Munteanu, C., Molyneaux, H., Maitland, J., McDonald, D., Leung, R., Fournier, H., & Lumsden, J. (2014). Hidden in plain sight: low-literacy adults in a developed country overcoming social and educational challenges through mobile learning support tools. Personal and ubiquitous computing, 18(6), 1455-1469.
• The New London Group. (1996). A pedagogy of multiliteracies: Designing social futures. Harvard educational review, 66(1), 60-93.
References
• Savage, K. Lynn. (1993). Literacy Through Competency-Based Educational Approaches in J. Crandall and J.K. Peyton (Eds.), Approaches to Adult ESL Literacy Instruction. Washington DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.
• Velghe, F. (2012). I wanna go in the phone”: Illiteracy, informal learning processes,‘voice’and mobile phone appropriation in a South African township. Tilburg Papers in Culture Studies, 40.
