Blogs / AlphaPlus Blog — Learning Outside the Lines : Adult Literacy in Ontario / 28 blog reactions

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a literacy-as-a-human-right approach to a literacy-as-a-vehicle-for-economic-competitiveness rhetoric described by Nancy Jackson in her interview with CBC's The Current on June 12, 2008. (Click on part 2 -- Nancy is on from about 3:55 to 14:40. Thanks Alpha for this link.) Focusing on the workplace makes sense. According to the 2003 Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALLS), 76% of individuals with low levels of literacy and essential skills are in the labour force; either working or looking for work.

the Wikis you want to compare, then press the button. Some other blogs and wikis mentioned during the sessions: ~ Burbank Public Library blog ~ literacyspace blog ~ DLC Adult Literacy Community ~ Families for Literacy at SF Bay Area Libraries ~ Exemplary Literacy Materials Online (ELMO) ~ Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki ~ Burbank Public Library Wiki / Littlewiki

Blogroll Carl in Victoria, BC Durham Literacy Ctr, NC New Zealand Literacy Project Ontario’s AlphaPlus Prince Edward Island R.Stopper’s English Updates Toronto’s Literacy Cafe Wendell’s Reflective Practice

Yukon Literacy Coalition UK Webfocus Skills for Life (UK) realife Literacy Talk (PEI) Literacy Source (US) Literacies Café Slow Reading jill/txt Beth's Blog Angela Maiers (US) AlphaPlus Blog (Ont) my other blogs c u r b s i d e Glad to be Home for poetry changes nothing mmmmmmath homepage on multiply.com

AlphaPlus Blog on the Blogs page. I have been aware of the AlphaPlus Centre in Toronto for some years, but only came across the blog recently. A recent post points to this class blog which is a splendidly straightforward place to publish literacy learner writing.

Literacy AlphaPlus Literacies at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education Literacies Cafe Literacies Journal

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AlphaPlus library has been dismantled. In September 2007, as a direct result of the federal funding cuts to provincial literacy initiatives announced in the fall of 2006, the AlphaPlus Library discontinued it's lending services and began the process of decentralizing its adult