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Learning Link: Feb. 21, 2008

Prescription for good health found in daily reading, new evidence shows

CCL's new report, Health Literacy in Canada: A Healthy Understanding reveals that the single best predictor of higher levels of health literacy is the act of reading every day—even more so than a person's level of education.

Health literacy refers to an individual’s ability to access and interpret information relating to their own health, and their capacity to make well-informed decisions about their health. This report examines the relationship between levels of health literacy and health outcomes. Go to report »

Lessons in Learning: The Benefits of Experiential Learning

Young adults in Canada are among the most highly educated young people in the world, but classroom-based post-secondary education does not necessarily impart all of the skills that employers demand. Many post-secondary students turn to programs that include an experiential learning component—such as co-operative education, internships or other forms of work placements—in order to develop a broader range of occupational skills. What are the benefits of experiential learning? Go to article »

CCL's Work and Learning Knowledge Centre explores the state of school-to-work transitions in Canada

Making Bridges Visible: An Inventory of Innovative, Effective or Promising Canadian School-to-Work Transition Practices, Programs and Policies, authored by Donnalee Bell and Elaine O’Reilly of the Canadian Career Development Foundation, contains 44 entries about school-to-work programs for school-leavers, high-school or post-secondary graduates. Designed to be a living resource, readers are encouraged to submit programs or policies to the inventory. Learn more »

Zoom in on health literacy

CCL has developed an interactive map of low health literacy in Canada’s provinces, territories, health regions, cities, communities and neighbourhoods—more than 49,000 in all.

Get results for the location you want »

More CCL news

• CCL posts An Exploration of Work and Learning Opportunities in New Brunswick, a report exploring work and learning opportunities for post-secondary students
• CCL’s Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre and Adult Learning Knowledge Centre are hosting the roundtable Reclaiming the Learning Spirit, by invitation only, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, March 12–14, 2008
• Descriptions of structured learning projects funded by CCL are now online
• The International Adult Learners' Week in Canada promotes lifelong and life-wide learning from March 3–9, 2008
  

Reminders

• Dr. Dale Kirby, the third scholar in CCL's Minerva Lecture Series, continues his cross-Canada tour
• CCL's Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre to host its annual conference, Seeing Ourselves in the Mirror: Giving Life to Learning, Feb. 28–March 1, 2008 
• CCL's Early Childhood Learning Knowledge Centre is a sponsor and organizer of the 40th Banff International Conferences on Behavioural Science, Effective Early Learning Practices: Research, Policy and Practice in Banff, Alberta, March 16–19, 2008
• CCL now accepting submissions of original, applied-research manuscripts for the fall issue of the Journal of Applied Research on Learning, deadline April 4, 2008 
• Register online for the 2008 Campbell Collaboration (C2) Speaking Truth to Power: Evidence for Decisions in Education, Social Welfare, and Criminal Justice, May 12 to 14, 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 
• Find out more about the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre's 2007–2008 Speakers Program. New speakers added monthly 

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