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Integrating Computer Skills and Basic Literacy Skills
To help meet the challenge of integrating basic literacy with computer literacy,
LINCT-LI facilitators have had the opportunity to participate in several
Staff Development workshops dealing with New York State standards and how
they relate to our classes. We have discussed ways to “tweak” some of the
exercises we currently use so that they address literacy skills like recognizing
the main idea, separating fact from opinion and drawing conclusions and
inferences. Basic math skills (adding,
subtracting, multiplying, dividing, whole numbers, fractions and decimals)
can also be easily woven into computer skills exercises once it becomes
a priority. In addition, the school
district has offered to make workbooks and ABE/GED/ESL software available
to participants of our classes if they want to use some of their training
time to improve other skills as well. This
goes along with our wish to address the adult learner from a wholistic perspective.
At our last workshop, we agreed that we are interested in
Students
commit to all the outcomes
– not just the computer – because that’s what’s needed to be competent
as a
Worker, Parent,
Citizen*
*The concept of competency as a worker, parent and citizen
comes from the national Institutes for Literacy’s Equipped for the Future
In
our next get together LI facilitators will write some Learning Experiences
(or “tweak”ones we have already written) so that they reflect both computer
and one or two basic skills.
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