CONGRATULATIONS your ALE WIKI !!! It will be of great usefulness in the field of adult literacy for both teachers and students...
The point is to try new things and educate and inpire both teachers and students with every and any methodology and tactic that works, whichever political or social system you live in. Here are some examples of literacy rates from small and large countries that are at different stages of developement with different social and economic systems: Theocratic, "socialist", statist, mixed economy and "free martket"... Literacy Rate in India = 59.5% Literacy Rate in Iran = 79.4% Literacy Rate in Vietnam = 90% Literacy Rate in China = 90.9% Literacy Rate in Israel = 95.4% Literacy Rate in Cuba = 97% Literacy Rate in the USA = 97% * Literacy Rate in Ireland = 98% Literacy Rate in Sweeden = 99% Literacy Rate in the UK = 99% Literacy Rate in Russia = 99.6% Literacy Rate in Iceland = 99.9% "Literacy" - definition: age 15 and over can read and write Source: CIA World Fact Book (2004) http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ * Personally I would take this claim with a pinch of salt... with dumbing down, cuts in education, more kids left behind, social breakdown, FOX MindRot, militarism etc. I think that this figure is a hope rather than a statistic and that it will be hard for the USA to keep up. Given the rise in Amagedenist nutty religious fundamentalism, the imperialist wars, global warming and the coming economic collapse through bankruptcy the USA will be lucky to equal Vietnam or China in 20 years time. Meanwhile they will have improved... You need every tool you can get including WIKIs... Tim Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfred Bork Sent: 01 February 2005 01:22 To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group' Subject: RE: [DDN] FW: [NIFL-HEALTH:4627] Adult Literacy education Wiki I see no evidence that this will help adult literacy in any large amount. At best it is an unfounded hope. Every new idea is seen by some as a solution. Alfred Bork -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 6:03 AM To: DIGITALDIVIDE (Digital Divide) Subject: [DDN] FW: [NIFL-HEALTH:4627] Adult Literacy education Wiki Fyi - siobhan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Rosen Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 6:31 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4627] Adult Literacy education Wiki NIFL-Health Colleagues, We would like to introduce you to the Adult Literacy Education Wiki. "Wiki-wiki," a Hawaiian word meanimg very, very quickly, refers in the online world to a web site where you can immediately and easily add to or change text.� The best-known application is the Wikipedia, a multilingual encyclopedia, created and modified daily by thousands of people across the world. We think a wiki can be a useful online environment for adult literacy practitioners, adult learner leaders, and researchers to have ongoing discussions in areas of mutual interest. The idea of having a wiki arose from planning the Meeting of the Minds research and practice conference held in Sacramento, California in December, 2004. The Adult Literacy Education(ALE) Wiki is not a replacement for electronic lists.� It is a complement to, and we hope an enhancement of them.� Because a wiki is an easily edited document environent, current or past electronic list discussions can be selectively copied to the wiki, continued at any time, and referenced (and linked) in future e-list discussions. For each wiki discussion topic a summary, glossary, and list of research and other references can be created.� We hope the ALE Wiki will become a handy electronic reference shelf of definitions and resources for discussions which take place on adult literacy e-lists, and where one could easily find research citations, full-text studies, threaded discussions which have taken place on listservs, and other materials which are all organized around specific research topic areas and questions.� It could also be an environment where researchers describe their completed and ongoing work, see how practitioners are reacting to or using their research, and see what questions and issues practitioners and adult learner leaders think are important to study. A wiki, by design, is a participatory environment.� We would like to invite you to work on the ALE wiki with us. (Our motto is "workers, not lurkers.") We are trying to organize this so that lots of people from the field are involved in adding/changing and editing text, but also so that in each of the areas there is a leader, a topic manager, to help keep things organized..� If you would like to visit the Adult Literacy Education Wiki, and we hope join in, you will find it at: ��� http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Main_Page To set up a log-in account, so you can add to the ALE Wiki, go to: ��� http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/Special:Userlogin Please e-mail David ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) if you have technical questions.� We hope you will find the Adult Literacy Education Wiki as intriguing as we do, and that you will join other researchers and practitioners who have begun to experiment with it. David J. 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