[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2970] RE: What's hot in Adult Education Software?

From: David J. Rosen (DJRosen@theworld.com)
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 07:43:24 EDT


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Hello Nixon,

I agree wholeheartedly.  One of the day-long workshops I do for 
teachers involves their choosing sites (sometimes together with me) and 
then evaluating them using a comprehensive set of criteria developed by 
the Children's Partnership -- for low-literacy,immigrant and/or 
low-income adults.

Let me know if you would be interested in doing this workshop in in 
Riviera Beach.

All the best,

David

David J. Rosen, Ed.D.
Newsome Associates
7 Newsome Park
Boston, MA 02130-4024
617-522-7020
DJRosen@theworld.com



On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 11:43 AM, Nixon S. Griffis wrote:

> David J. Rosen,
>
> Thank you for all your work on these two sites. I have only scratched 
> the
> surface but see that you have truly the heart of a teacher. I believe 
> the
> one of the next steps in education will be to better package resources 
> for
> overwhelmed teachers to plug-in to. My district has millions of dollars
> invested in technology which goes to waste. Teacher have neither the 
> time or
> the inclination to wade thru the dross to get to the gold. What is 
> missing
> is a connecting mechanism between that great mass of technology and
> teachers. There need to be a filtering and packaging mechanism that 
> better
> delivers complete lessons to teachers, ready made. The pessimists say 
> that
> teachers have to show the motivation to plug in themselves. It is like 
> the
> mountain going to Mohammed. It won't happen unless we figure out a limo
> service to better serve teachers.
>
> Nick Griffis
> Adult Education
> Inlet Grove H.S.
> Riviera Beach, FL
> 561-882-9967
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nifl-technology@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-technology@nifl.gov]On
> Behalf Of David J. Rosen
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:29 PM
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> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:2960] What's hot in Adult Education Software?
>
>
> NIFL-Technology Colleagues,
>
> As many of you know, I am the author of Harnessing Technology
> [http://www.alri.org/harness.html ] and The Literacy List
> [http://www.alri.org/literacylist.html ] two Web-based resources for
> adult basic education (incl. ESOL) practitioners.  I am updating both,
> and would welcome your recommendations.  Have you bought software in
> the past two years that you especially like?  Do you (and your
> students) have favorite instruction/learning Web pages?  Tell us what
> they are, and why you like them.
>
> Meanwhile, the DL discussion will continue if there are others who want
> to add to it.
>
> David J. Rosen
> NIFL-Technology Guest mdoerator
> DJRosen@theworld.com
>
>
>



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