Thursday 6 December 2018

Joining the Dots Conference 7 December 2018 Program

8.30
Registration
9.00 
Welcome & introduction
(Room: Harris)
Acknowledge of country
Welcome from the NSW Adult Literacy & Numeracy Council
Conference overview
9.20 
Plenary speaker - Dr Julie Choi
(Room: Harris)
Immigrant and refugee women’s resourcefulness in English language classrooms: emerging possibilities through plurilingualism
Discussant: Polly Craig
10.05
Plenary speaker  - Phil Kane
(Room: Harris)
Researching workplace numeracy as a social practice - case studies from New Zealand
Discussant: Jill Finch
10.40
Morning tea
11.10
Panel
Damian Oliver
Stewart Burkitt
Warren Poole)
Jill Biddington
(Room: Harris)          
Strengthening the role of ABE practitioners for learners, their families and their communities
12.00
Lunch 

Roundtables 1   (Room: Harris)
Roundtables and paper 2  (Room: Jones)
1.00-1.40
ROUNDTABLE 1.1 
TAFE Outreach sewing basics and numeracy
Lisa Faye, Bryony Gliddon & Jo Sykes

ROUNDTABLE 2.1 
Joining the dots: between critical online government services and users from migrant and refugee backgrounds
Lynda Cameron, Bernard Lewis & Lucy Brennan
1.45-2.25
ROUNDTABLE 1.2 
Show and tell is for teachers too!
Polly Craig,  Kerry Hooper Richardson & Louise Mesker
ROUNDTABLE 2.2 
Tap, swipe and scroll – digital literacy and the LLN learner
Elisabeth Gahl & Samara Coulter
2.35-3.15
ROUNDTABLE 1.3 
Project-based learning – providing opportunities to apply key employability skills in the Australian context
Gwyn Denton
PAPER 2.3 
Distance education and the literacy learner: quandry or solution
Debra Urquhart
3.20-4.00
ROUNDTABLE 1.4 
Synthetic phonics
Heather Beebee & Michele Perry