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Direct linkAro, Mikko; Olkinuora, Erkki – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
In the modern world, skimming through information quickly and finding the important nuggets of knowledge from amongst the information overload is an essential skill. One way to train oneself for this kind of literacy is reading on the internet, which requires continuous assessment of search results and specifying searches. In this article a…
Descriptors: Computers, Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Functional Literacy
Download full textLuke, Carmen – 1997
This booklet, which was written for adult literacy practitioners in Australia, examines some key issues currently being raised about new information technologies and technological literacy. The following are among the topics discussed in the booklet's nine sections: innovation and dissemination (effects of videocassette recorders, computers, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education
Canadian Public Health Association, Ottawa (Ontario). – 2001
This document presents materials about and from a conference on literacy and health that was held to examine the connections between literacy and health and to provide Canadian health professionals, government representatives, literacy providers, adult learners from Canada and the United States, and other participants with practical skills and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy, Allied Health Occupations
Comings, John, Ed.; Garner, Barbara, Ed.; Smith, Cristine, Ed. – 2000
This book contains eight papers on adult learning and literacy. "The Year 1998 in Review" (Fran Tracy-Mumford) examines educational legislation and policy and developments in adult education program development, program accountability, strategic alliances and partnerships, and instructional methodologies and technologies. "Lessons…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adolescents, Adult Education, Adult Learning
