NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council

The professional body for adult literacy and numeracy in NSW

NSW ALNC In-person Annual Conference 2024

Using authentic materials and activities that relate to our learners’ life-worlds has been a principle held strongly by adult literacy and numeracy teachers. It reflects our valuing of learners’ interests, funds of knowledge and their own reasons for improving their literacy and numeracy. But what do ‘authentic materials and activities’ mean in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? This question will be explored at the conference.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Erik Jacobson Montclair State University, USA "Learner Activism and Generative Curriculum"
Erik Jacobson will join us by video. Professor Jacobson was the lead author of "Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy Classroom: A Handbook for Practitioners", a resource published in 2003 that reflects pedagogical principles that resonate with what many of us have held onto here in Australia. He has continued to publish in the area of adult basic education since, including Adult basic education in the age of new literacies (2012). At the conference he will reflect on his work on authentic materials and activities in the current context of adult literacy.

Dave Brebner
"Neurodiversity"
Dave Brebner is a Career Development Practitioner, Adult Educator, Keynote Speaker, Presenter and Author. He is a successful teacher, career coach, husband, and father of 6, who was told by a prominent professor at a young age that I would not achieve much for his future - and would most definitely never work in the public eye. Why? Because he had an unknown condition, which we now know as Tourette Syndrome.

PROGRAM

The day's program will also include a number of presentations and practical workshops where we explore innovative ways of supporting our adult literacy and numeracy learners in their lifelong learning.

VENUE

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