Assessment and Technology Colleagues,

First, a cross-post:
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Tom Sticht saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you  
should see it.

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Aaace-nla Colleagues: This article illustrates differences in news  
sources amng younger and older youth and aldults and raises questions  
about literacy assessment.

** Web browsing beats page-turning **
Europeans now spend more of their week online than they do reading  
papers or magazines, a report says.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/business/6034433.stm >


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Now some questions for you:

1.  Have you assessed your students' web page reading skills? Has  
anyone assessed adult learners' web page reading skills? Is there  
such an assessment?
2.  What impact do adult literacy programs have on students' access  
to or use of computers or the Internet? I have seen an unpublished  
study which found they have --- none -- and that makes me wonder  
why.  Any ideas? Are you aware of any studies of adult literacy  
programs' impact on students' access to or use of computers?
3. Are adult literacy programs helping students to use assistive  
technology -- for example, (free) text-to-speech web page reader  
software that would enable them to join the community of internet  
users even if they have difficulty reading text? If not, should this  
be a program responsibility?


David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net