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Lessons in Learning: The Video Game Debate
Aggressive behaviour vs. enhanced spatial awareness, incomplete homework vs. superior problem-solving skills—these are the often-conflicting outcomes of video gaming. With the average Canadian teenager spending almost three hours a day in front of a screen, it matters. This Lessons in Learning covers both sides of the debate, offering words of wisdom for parents and educators.
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Understanding PLAR: Perspectives from users, service providers and stakeholders
The human experience behind Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR), a method of assessing non-academic adult learning, is examined in Understanding PLAR as an asset-based approach to increase participation in adult learning: Perspectives from users, service providers and stakeholders. Prepared for CCL’s Adult Learning Knowledge Centre, this report uses composite narratives to demonstrate the achievements of PLAR users and practitioners and to identify recommended changes to current policies and practices.
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Accommodating Learning Styles in Bridging Education Programs for Internationally Educated Professionals
Recent research suggests that internationally educated professionals (IEPs) continue to experience high levels of underemployment and unemployment, a situation which will not alleviate the growing demand for skilled professionals in Canada.
This research confirms the importance of designing flexible learning in bridging education based on democratic student-centered adult education principles, which build on learner strengths and values their learning styles as assets.
Reading the Future video series: Michel Gratton turns the page on low literacy
After years of struggling in large classrooms, Michel Gratton quit high school to join the workforce. It was when he was required to take a safety test at work that he realized the importance of literacy skills to advancing his career objectives. This video, created to coincide with the release of CCL's Reading the Future in June 2008, tells Michel's story who, at age 46, returned to school to finish his Grade 12 and improve his computer literacy skills.
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More CCL News
CCL has recently posted the following reports:
The Final Report of the iSisters’ program evaluation, Creating Bright Futures, monitors the effect of iSisters’ employment-support programs on poor women living in Ottawa
The Early Childhood Population Database, created by CCL's Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre, provides a worldwide inventory of databases on the population of children ages zero to six
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CCL’s Adult Learning Knowledge Centre developed Building a Road Map for the ‘Lost Highway’ of Adult Learning, a compilation of four years of their work documenting and testing the state of adult learning in Canada
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