Volume #1 Issue #2, June
1997
Published by the Continuing
Education Centre, Ottawa Board of Education, 515
Cambridge St. South, Ottawa, ON, K1S 4H9. Tel.
(613) 239-2656 Fax (613) 239-2429 WWW:
http://www.nald.ca/connect.htm
- Editor: Pauline McNaughton. (http://www.obe.edu.on.ca/contweb/)
TECHNOLOGY
PLANNING
Misconceptions and
Fantasies about the Use of Computers
Misconceptions and fantasies abound about how the use of computers effect learning in adult literacy programs. High expectations can be as much an obstacle to success as attitudes of resistance and cynicism.
Guiding Priciples for the Effective Use of Computers
Regardless of how engaging or intimidating the use of computers is perceived at the outset - what will ultimately motivate learners and teachers to use these resources and to keep using them is demonstrable progress towards achievement of individual learning goals.
SOFTWARE
REVIEWS:
Assessing Learning
Difficulties in the Workplace by
Alpha Ontario
This CD-ROM is designed to assist supervisors, workplace trainers, human resource workers and occupational health and safety teams in detecting literacy problems or learning difficulties in the workplace.
Report on The Academy of Reading
The Academy of Reading was installed in the IBM lab at the Continuing Education Centre in 1996 on a test basis, and was used with a control group of students as well as three other ABE or ESL groups at different levels.
PLUGGING IN
- ON LINE SERVICES FOR LITERACY :
Alpha Ontario
Read about Alpha Ontario and the resources and services they provide for literacy practitioners.
Suggestions from literacy practitioners on web site resources.
REPORT FROM
THE FIELD:
Use of Computers in
a Multi-Level Class
An instructor from the Kirkland Lake Board of Education was interviewed about the use of computers in a multi-level literacy program.
REPORTS
FROM LEARNERS:
Learners Report on
the Value of Computers in Literacy
Programs
Dan Haley writes about the role computers play in providing him with the supports he needs to succeed at the literacy level. Roger LaMothe writes about his first experience with computers.
TECHNOLOGY
AND THE CURRICULUM:
Lesson Plan: Survey
Project Involving the Use of Claris
Works
An instructor from a level 2/3 class writes about the use of Claris Works spreadsheet program in a Survey Project which involved reading, writing, numeracy and computer components.
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