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OLC is pleased to announce that Karen Geraci and Marisa Mazzulla of Inquire Consulting will be hosting our third webinar, Workforce Essential Skills on Tuesday, September 13 at 1:00PM EDT. Join us for a free one-hour webinar where you will gain a better understanding of the importance of workforce Essential Skills programming. Workforce Essential Skills across Canada (WESCan) was a two-year research study to investigate workforce ES approaches and implementation processes. Over the two years, PTP’s project team worked in partnership with five providers from coast to coast to build community-based, locally relevant workforce ES programs. From such diversity sprang a common understanding of the elements that contribute to workforce ES programming, and a common commitment to offer strong, flexible programming to meet the needs of employment-bound adults. Those on-the-ground, genuine experiences are what inform the contents of this webinar. Attend this webinar to:
… and much more! To register for the webinar, please visit click here. For more information, please contact olc@on.literacy.ca |
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August 24, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition
Take the International Literacy Day Challenge!
August 16, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalitionSeptember 8th is International Literacy Day! Started by UNESCO in 1966, the day highlights the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies. Every year on International Literacy Day, celebrations take place around the world to support literacy and adult learning.
This September 8th, get involved and take the International Literacy Day Challenge. This year’s challenge focuses on literacy and essential skills for everyone, everywhere. Try out some of these activities to celebrate International Literacy Day – and continue to practice literacy and essential skills every day!
1. Read a book to a child
2. Have a child read a book to an adult
3. Start a blog
4. Take a professional development course
5. Join a social media platform – Linked In, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
6. Write a letter to an old friend – the snail mail way!
7. Share this list with friends and coworkers – and dare them to take the challenge!
8. Play a game of Scrabble
9. Look up and learn a new word (and continue to do so every day for a month!)
10. Use a new form of technology (Smartphone, self-serve checkout, etc.)
Download the International Literacy Day Social Media Guide to take part in raising awareness of the day by clicking here and click on “download related file” at the bottom of the page.
The more noise we make, the more impact we make!OLC Partners with Knowledge Mobilization Unit at York University
July 6, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition
Nausheen Quayyum and Shireen Rangwala
The OLC, in partnership with the Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) Unit through York University, has recruited two graduate student interns, Shireen Rangwala and Nausheen Quayyum, to work on research initiatives for best practices and new models of service delivery within the OLC and the literacy community. Knowledge Mobilization refers to the active, two-way exchange of information and expertise between knowledge creators and knowledge users, and continues to generate interest with researchers and organizations alike. While Shireen focuses on digital literacy, Nausheen is working on sponsorship and alternative forms of funding. Both Shireen and Nausheen, as well as a number of other graduate students at York are working with community agencies across the GTA thanks to grants made possible by the KMb Unit.
The KMb Unit at York, receiving grants from CIHR and SSHRC, has provided the mechanism for research from areas such as humanities and social services – an area primarily dominated by science and technology. York’s KMb Unit, along with the University of Victoria, has created ResearchImpact, Canada’s growing KMb network.
Michael Johnny, Manager of York’s KMb Unit, speaks enthusiastically about partnering with OLC. “There is incredible value in connecting the skills of graduate students in research with relevant issues in policy in organizations. I really hope it’s just the beginning to expand a greater pipeline with OLC.”
A research forum to be held in the fall will highlight the collaborative efforts of the KMb Unit, OLC, Shireen, and Nausheen as they present their research findings.
To read more on the KMb Unit at York, please click here.
Is Literacy Losing its Meaning?
June 20, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalitionOLC wants your feedback!
The definition of ‘literacy’ is broadening at a rapid rate – caloric literacy, mental health literacy, global literacy, etc. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think the word ‘literacy’ is losing its meaning?
OLC’s Second Webinar with Dr. Sarah Eaton a Hit!
June 8, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition
Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton
OLC’s second webinar, New Trends in Education: Formal, Non-formal and Informal Learning – Implications for Evaluation and Assessment, hosted by Sarah Eaton took place June 7th and was very well received!
This engaging webinar guided participants through the differences between learning, emerging, emerging trends and how to value and assess learning that happens in non-formal and informal contexts.
For those who missed the webinar, or who wish to share with colleagues and friends, we have the recorded version here.
OLC’s next webinar, Workforce Essential Skills, will be taking place September 13, 2011 at 1:00PM EDT with Karen Geraci and Marisa Mazzulla. Stay tuned for more information. To view OLC’s upcoming webinars, click here.
Programs and Research Prove the Importance of Developing Literacy Skills Early
May 26, 2011 — ontarioliteracycoalition
Read to Me! bag
Numerous programs and initiatives across the country promoting the importance of developing literacy skills early in life continue to encourage and make a difference. From literacy programs at birth, to parents reading in American Sign Language to their deaf or hard-of-hearing children, the efforts to increase literacy skills are endless.
Babies in Nova Scotia receive early literacy programs within 24 hours of birth – Read to Me! , a non-profit, hospital-based early literacy program delivered at the hospital bedside is given free to every baby born or adopted in Nova Scotia. Over 70,000 families have received the bright yellow Read to Me! bag since the program’s launch in 2002. Developed by a group of provincial partners with the shared goal of addressing low literacy rates in the province after results of the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey showed that over half the population of Nova Scotia struggled with basic reading and writing.
Read more about this program here.
Improving Literacy Skills for Deaf Children through Early Intervention - Preliminary findings from a Ryerson study indicate that deaf and hard-of-hearing children may benefit significantly when parents read to them using American Sign Language (ASL). Kristin Snoddon, a postdoctoral fellow in Ryerson University’s School of Early Childhood Education (ECE), leads a 10-month research project teaching hearing parents of deaf children how to read children’s classics using ASL. ”Shared reading and parent-child interaction are critical supports for improving literacy skills,” Snodden says.
Read more about this story here.
