National Adult Literacy Database

Authors: NWT Literacy Council

Collection: Learning Materials

This video shows how to make a small book that unfolds like an accordion. The project calls for materials that are readily available, including regular paper, index cards, transparent tape, glue and ribbon.

The pages of the book can feature a specific learning theme, like colours or numbers. The format can also be adapted to make a keepsake book of photographs or other memorabilia.

Added: 2012-02-07

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

This video tutorial offers an introduction to adding and subtracting decimals.

It begins with a review of columns and their names. For instance, to the right of the decimal, the columns are called tenths, hundredths, thousandths and so on.

The instructor also touches on borrowing and carrying when performing calculations.

Added: 2012-04-17

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

In this brief video tutorial, learners get a chance to practise their skills at adding and subtracting decimals.

The video includes three problems that illustrate a variety of challenges that may occur in calculations involving decimals. For instance, the solution to the third problem ends up being a negative number.

Added: 2012-04-17

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

This video provides an introduction to adding and subtracting fractions, beginning with a review of the terms numerator and denominator.

The instructor goes through the steps for solving three problems, including reducing the resulting fraction to its simplest form.

The three problems are straightforward because each of the fractions involved has the same denominator.

Added: 2012-03-07

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

This math video tutorial offers learners a chance to practise their skills at adding and subtracting fractions.

The video includes three fairly simply problems. In each example, all the fractions have the same denominator.

Added: 2012-03-07

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

In this math video tutorial, learners deal with more complicated operations involving fractions.

The instructor takes viewers through a number of problems involving fractions that do not have the same denominator. The learner must find a common denominator before going on to the next stage of the problem

Added: 2012-03-13

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Series: Learning on Demand: Numeracy - The Basics - Video Tutorials

Authors: Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM)

Collection: Learning Materials

This video tutorial gives learners a chance to practise doing math problems involving fractions that don’t have the same denominator.

The tutorial includes three problems. Learners can pause the video while they work out the problems on their own, then restart it to see the instructor’s detailed solutions.

Each problem requires that the learner find a common denominator before completing the calculations.

Added: 2012-03-13

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Series: Adult Learners’ Week in Nova Scotia

Authors: Literacy Nova Scotia

Collection: Learning Materials

In 2009, the theme for International Adult Learners' Week (IALW) in Nova Scotia was “Living and Learning for a Viable Future – The Power of Adult Learning.” Literacy Nova Scotia (LNS) celebrated the week a writing contest.

Winners in the contest’s four divisions were invited to present their submissions at a reception in Halifax. Here, the winner in the video category describes how learning changed her life.

Born in Mexico, she moved to Lebanon at the age of nine. She was married at 17, and widowed at 19. While she wanted to finish her education, the principal of the local school said her age and marital status made that impossible.

In 2004, she and her son moved to Canada to start a new life. She signed up for an adult learning program and is making plans to get her high school diploma, go to university, and become a pharmacist.

Added: 2013-03-26

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Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

Collection: Research Materials

In this 30-minute video, Dr. Paul Cappon, president and CEO of the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), presents the keynote address to the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre’s (AdLKC’s) fourth and final annual symposium, held in Montreal, Quebec, in June 2009.

Dr. Cappon notes that society puts great value on uncovering the origins of both chronic and transmissible diseases because evidence is key to understanding and, eventually, controlling disease. He argues that learning is just as important as healthcare to the destiny of society, but the importance of research in education isn’t as clearly recognized.

He urges governments to acknowledge that human infrastructure is a public good every bit as important as machines and buildings. He also encourages them to invest in tools to help Canadians assess themselves; promote partnerships with industry to improve workplace education and training; commit to clear, shared goals; and support mobility for students and professions.

A learning culture is important no matter what economic conditions prevail at any given time, he says. Knowing how to learn is the quintessential skill in a knowledge society.

During his presentation, Dr. Cappon switches back and forth between English and French. No subtitles are provided.

Added: 2011-09-23

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See also:

• Colloque annuel de 2009 CSAAd : Conférencier principal – Paul Cappon [Vidéo - 29:53]

Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

Collection: Learning Materials

This video, about four minutes in length, is part of a series prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning.

The video focuses on a fishing village in the Magdalen Islands area of Quebec. Several fishers talk about the growing need for vocational training and upgrading in the fishing industry as equipment becomes more sophisticated and regulations more complicated.

The video also features a teacher talking about ways to help dropouts continue their high school education and continue on in a vocational program leading to a diploma in fishing.

The video is in French, with English subtitles.

Added: 2011-04-20

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• L'éducation des adultes dans le secteur de la pêche [Vidéo - 3:48]