Creating authentic materials and activities in the age of AI

Using authentic materials and activities that relate to our learners’ life-worlds has been a principle held strongly by adult literacy and numeracy teachers. It reflects our valuing of learners’ interests, funds of knowledge and their own reasons for improving their literacy and numeracy. But what do ‘authentic materials and activities’ mean in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? This question will be explored at our annual conference to be held in-person in Sydney on the 13 December.

Professor Erik Jacobson from Montclair University, USA will be a keynote speaker, joining us by video to help us in our exploration. Professor Jacobson was the lead author of Creating Authentic Materials and Activities for the Adult Literacy Classroom: A Handbook for Practitioners, a resource published in 2003 that reflects pedagogical principles that resonate with what many of us have held onto here in Australia. He has continued to publish in the area of adult basic education since, including Adult basic education in the age of new literacies (2012). At the conference he will reflect on his work on authentic materials and activities in the current context of adult literacy.

The day’s program will also include a number of presentations and practical workshops where we explore innovative ways of supporting our adult literacy and numeracy learners in their lifelong learning.

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Eora Centre, TAFE NSW
333 Abercrombie St , Darlington New South Wales 2008

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