2012 NSW ALNC Conference 10 December, 2012

Reading the digital word, to read the digital world?

2012 NSW Adult Literacy and Numeracy Council  (NSWALNC) Conference 10 December, 2012

The theme of the 2012 NSWALNC conference is: Reading the digital word, to read the digital world. The conference will work with a ‘twist’ of Paulo Freire’s idea of literacy – that we read the word in order to read the world we live in.  Conference participants will consider what this means in our contemporary context, as forms of reading have expanded dramatically with the introduction of new media and technologies. What has changed about literacy, what hasn’t? What does this mean for literacy teaching? (And of course,what does this mean for numeracy?)

The conference will feature keynote addresses by Professor Robyn Jorgensen on numeracy, and Helen De Silva Joyce on visual literacy.

For further information, email nswlanc@gmail.com

Reading during the International Year of Reading!

How better to celebrate the International Year of Reading than with something to read?

Pauline O’Maley, Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council (VALBEC) committee member and avid reader has been  posting articles about reading each month on the VALBEC website. This month’s offering is about multiliteracies.

Add your suggestions about things to read that are relevant to the Year of Reading in the comments section. 

 

Adult Learners’ Week 2012 – Short Story Competition

“It’s never too late … to learn to read” writing competition

$30,000 in prizes for Australian writers. Competition closed 6 August 2012

The National Year of Reading 2012, in partnership with the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre, has been given a grant by the Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, to run a writing competition as part of Adult Learners’ Week 2012 (ALW).

“It’s never too late… to learn to read” is a short story competition for unpublished, new, emerging and established Australian writers. For some, it will be the chance to tell their own stories; for others, it will be the opportunity to imagine the experiences of an adult learning to read. Our aim is for the creation of exciting, inspiring and challenging stories to support and encourage adult learning, and to highlight the fact that “it’s never too late… to learn to read”.

Published writers will have the opportunity to win a $3,000 cash prize for their work, and unpublished, emerging writers, $1,000. The judges will be looking for stories that excite, inspire and challenge audiences. Fourteen stories (8 from published authors, 6 from unpublished) will be chosen as winners, and these will be announced during The Reading Hour 2012

People’s Choice voting

There is an additional component to the competition this year – People’s Choice voting. Everyone can participate in Adult Learners’ Week by asking them to vote for a winning entry of their choice. This will be in addition to the judges’ voting. People’s Choice voting will launched at The Reading Hour 2012 on the 25 August 2012.

Why not get your students involved in deciding which story they think should win?