Posts Tagged ‘Literacy’

Children produce better pieces of writing by hand. But they need keyboard skills too

Monday, May 20th, 2024
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Children today are growing up surrounded by technology. So it’s easy to assume they will be able to write effectively using a keyboard. But our research suggests this is not necessarily true. We need to actively teach students to be able to type as well as write using paper and pen or pencil. Our research Read more

Methodist Mission begins literacy programme in prison

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Dunedin’s Methodist Mission has begun a literacy and numeracy programme at the Otago Corrections Facility in Milburn that it says is ”much more powerful” than classroom learning. The organisation began the courses at the prison this week, after winning a contract with the Department of Corrections. Te Wananga o Aotearoa secured a contract to deliver Read more