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