by admin4acal | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thank you to Elizabeth Wells, a PhD Candidate at UniSA, who has provided us with this preview of her work that considers the therapeutic benefits of reading for cancer patients. Receiving a cancer diagnosis is at best shocking, and at worst totally overwhelming....
by admin4acal | May 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hastings Neighbourhood Service coordinator Julie Trowbridge recognised that many people in her local communities needed assistance filling in everyday forms which are unfortunately complex. In response, she worked with her team and volunteers to set up the LEAF...
by admin4acal | May 20, 2021 | Archive
Improving Access to Foundation Skills through the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) Program Speaker: Jason Coutts, Assistant Secretary, Foundation Skills, Department of Education, Skills and Employment (DESE) Webinar: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Time: 3pm AEST (45...
by admin4acal | May 16, 2021 | Interviews
Interview link available to members here Literacy + language + mathematics = numeracy There is enough evidence that numeracy needs to stand out in LLN in its own right … research shows that low numeracy can have a more powerful effect in a range of areas than...
by admin4acal | May 13, 2021 | major, Webinars
Speakers: Philippa McLean and Jenni Oldfield Recorded: Wednesday, May 12, 2021 A link to the recording and chat text is available for members. Get a copy of the DLSF The Digital Literacy Skills Framework (DLSF) was developed for use in the Commonwealth Government’s...
by admin4acal | May 6, 2021 | major, Webinars
Speaker: Greg Williams, Charles Darwin University Recorded: Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Digital learning environments are finally starting to live up to the promises they offered when they began to be introduced four decades ago and are now also demonstrating to us the...
by admin4acal | May 4, 2021 | Uncategorized
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by admin4acal | May 1, 2021 | Interviews
Interview link available to members here How do you start your career as a bilingual engineer and end up as director of one of Australia’s most prominent and well-known literacy RTOs and audit bodies? In this interview Mary Wallace shares her surprising pathway into...
by admin4acal | May 1, 2021 | Interviews
Interview link available to members here “I don’t feel sorry for learners – I am genuinely interested in them and I believe they absolutely have the right to literacy and numeracy, and to good quality literacy and numeracy” This week I had the...
by admin4acal | May 1, 2021 | Interviews
Interview link available to members here “Perhaps people outside our field don’t recognize how pivotal it is” surmises Lorraine Sushames, ACAL treasurer and an expert on adult literacy in the NT, when asked why reports such as ‘Closing the Gap’ still don’t focus on...
