As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies continue to advance, their integration into secondary and postsecondary education offers a multitude of opportunities for adolescent and adult learners. ...In this article, we delve into the advantages of integrating AI into literacy education, emphasizing its capacity to enhance writing skills, provide assistance to students with disabilities, foster critical thinking and media literacy abilities, and also tackle challenges associated with biases, misinformation, and an overdependence on AI tools. This article offers examples and recommendations to assist literacy educators in guiding their adolescent and adult learners toward ethical and responsible usage of AI.
Teacher coaching has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional models of professional development. We review the empirical literature on teacher coaching and conduct meta-analyses to estimate ...the mean effect of coaching programs on teachers 'instructional practice and students 'academic achievment. Combining results across 60 studies that employ causal research designs, we find pooled effect sizes of 0.49 standard deviations (SD) on instruction and 0.18 SD on achievement. Much of this evidence comes from literacy coaching programs for prekindergarten and elementary school teachers in the United States. Although these findings affirm the potential of coaching as a development tool, further analyses illustrate the challenges of taking coaching programs to scale while maintaining effectiveness. Average effects from effectiveness trials of larger programs are only a fraction of the effects found in efficacy trials of smaller programs. We conclude by discussing ways to address scale-up implementation challenges and providing guidance for future causal studies.
The era of modern technology requires its residents to pursue competence and competitiveness. Therefore, education is needed by humans as a basic need in developing competitiveness to achieve a ...glorious future. It also makes a person need literacy education for competence, accuracy, determination, trustworthiness, courage to face the risks of every decision he chooses and so on. The reality is that many Islamic boarding schools have not achieved the competencies desired by these institutions. This is traced to the fact that there are still many pesantren graduates who cannot play a role in society as a developer of religious or non-religious knowledge. This research was conducted with the aim of explaining how the implementation of literacy education in the Az-Zainiyah area of the Nurul Jadid Islamic boarding school was carried out as a form of effort to face the challenges of modern times in the future. This study uses a qualitative approach. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews and documentation. The research subjects consisted of one head of the Az-Zainiyah region, four coordinators of the Az-Zainiyah student literacy forum, one female student and one female student. The data analysis technique uses data reduction that has been collected, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and observations. The results showed that the implementation of literacy education in the Az-Zainiyah region was carried out by learning and studying the yellow book, book bazaars, talents and interests, competitions on literacy, and short studies, namely a seven-minute lecture. However, in the implementation of these various forms of literacy, there are obstacles, namely there is no free forum to express the literary works of students, the lack of books that are of interest to students, and the lack of motivation of students from their respective administrators.
Il seguente contributo propone una riflessione inerente all'educazione alla letterarietà e all’accompagnamento dell’infanzia alla frequentazione di storie.
La complessità dell'esperienza della ...lettura viene analizzata e approfondita attraverso un parallelismo con una metafora letteraria radicata nel nostro immaginario già a partire dal racconto del mito di Osiride raccontatoci da Plutarco, fino ad arrivare a classici contemporanei, passando attraverso versioni di fiabe, albi illustrati, canzoni e serie televisive: la metafora dello smembramento.
Data literacy has been suggested as an important competence that individuals need to succeed in a data‐intensive society. However, there is no common understanding as to what data literacy entails ...and how it could be developed. Instructional emphasis on developing competence of individuals fails to capture learners' relationship to data in everyday life and limits what they can possibly achieve in data‐rich environments. This paper critically reviews conceptualizations of data literacy in the literature with a focus in K‐12 education. The analysis determined four orientations of data literacy: development of competence, inquiry with data, awareness of personal data and civic engagement. I proposed a broader conceptualization of data literacy that integrates conceptions, competencies and contexts. The study offers holistic and context‐oriented framing of data literacy for researchers and educators.
Practitioner notes
What is known about the topic
Data literacy is a potential buzzword in the recent literature. There are increasing calls for developing data literacy skills of students and the general public.
Data literacy is framed and implemented as a technical competence. Accordingly, curricular interventions and pedagogical practices focus on making use of data and benefiting from available datasets.
What this paper adds
The above framing of data literacy is too narrow to be useful in everyday life and rarely considers individuals interaction with data outside of schools.
This study develops four focus areas in the conceptualization of data literacy and suggests broader framing of the concept as it relates to everyday life.
It also suggests context‐oriented approaches to data literacy education that can go beyond classrooms and academic activities.
Implications for practice and policy
This paper has implication for educators, researchers and policy makers. It allows boarder conceptualizations of data literacy that can be used in curricular interventions. It also provides ways of designing learning environments for the data literacy education and research.
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are business activities or businesses that can be done by everyone, as long as the person can manage and develop the business. SMEs also have a role in economic ...independence, which in turn can lead to national independence. SMEs in running their business will be pursued is related to revenue and profit. The purpose of this study is to analyze the direct effect of education level on the financial behavior of SMEs in Gresik, and the indirect effect with financial literacy as an intervening variable. The results showed that the level of education affects financial literacy and financial behavior, financial literacy affects financial behavior, while for the indirect effect, financial literacy can be a mediating variable for the level of education on financial behavior
Maintaining deep roots Bernie Grummell
European journal for research on the education and learning of adults,
02/2023, Volume:
14, Issue:
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Open access
This article explores on the formative influence of adult popular education in the evolution and continued ethos of adult literacy education in the Republic of Ireland. Freire’s work has been ...influential within Irish adult education and community development, informed by Freirean practices of learner-centredness, experiential learning and group learning. This stands in contrast to Further Education and Training system in which the adult literacy services are based, which has become increasingly professionalised in recent years, susceptible to the ideological values and practices of performativity. The article analyses the findings of research reports on adult literacy which used a mixed methods approach. They reveal how the adult literacy sector holds important spaces for educators to counteract systemic pressures of performativity as they work with learners and their communities through the ethos and pedagogies of adult education, but this is constrained in its radical transformative possibilities.
This paper reports on an investigation into the impact of the introduction of Beginning Literacy (BL) as an interactive approach to early literacy education, on the literacy curriculum and practice ...in Icelandic primary schools. A questionnaire to teachers in grades 1-4 revealed differences in the teaching practices of BL and non-BL teachers. Most notably the non-BL teachers adhered more to technical aspects of reading, whilst the BL teachers emphasised a wider variety of literacy aspects and teaching practices. However, the differences were less than expected, suggesting that teachers need more prolonged support to change their teaching practice.
Most salient financial literacy frameworks and curricula mainly focus on teaching and learning of simple money management. However, the financial demands placed on individuals today include much more ...complicated matters, such as buying a home and saving for retirement. Furthermore, financial literacy gives rise to normative questions such as what responsibility should be placed on individuals. In educational terms, this creates an alignment problem where the hopes and expectations placed in financial literacy as mass-education is not met by desirable results. This article uses previous results and the construct of powerful knowledge to discuss how financial literacy education in upper secondary school can benefit from an incorporation into social studies, which is an existing school subject in many educational systems. Findings include that teachers can utilize their existing teaching competence to also teach financial literacy. However, to accomplish results, both curricula and syllabi must guide teachers to abandon the focus on money management to instead focus on teaching students concerning the financial, economic and political issues that affect personal finances, yet at the same time can be affected by democratic decisions. Implications for financial literacy teaching and learning are discussed using the concept Powerful Financial Literacy.
PCR-electrophoresis analysis is an effective tool in the education of genetics and genome literacy, since variants of human genomic DNA can be visually observed as the profiles of the bands. It is a ...useful tool for the teaching of genetics and genome literacy in school. In the United States, variant analysis experimental kits and inexpensive, compact PCR devices are commercially available and used in schools. In the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), electrophoresis often features in teacher training sessions for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education relating to understanding the human genome. The analysis of the experimenter’s own genomic DNA is effective in fostering literacy around genetics and the human genome. In Japan, experiments that handle genomes for educational purposes should also be carried out in accordance with official guidelines regarding dealing with personal genetic information, and appropriate methods of operation should be discussed and confirmed. In the future, it will be increasingly necessary to deepen our understanding of electrophoresis, experimental methods, the handling of personal genetic information, and the training of instructors in educational settings.
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