Get Smart Study Skills

The premise here is that, study skills require language, literacy and numeracy skills as well as digital literacy skills (DLS). They are inter-related, inter-connected and collaborative. It's interesting to note: How does past research involved with learning differences/styles correlate with DLS? Despite learning a communicative language, we can cross-reference the different approaches. Are they one and the same, or an eclectic mix.

The thing is, DLS tend to be more visual due to the lack of attention spans being reported. If we take a look at Kolb's Learning Styles, it's interesting to see how the processes relate to each other. In effect, by learning a language via Web2 tools, we actually learn/teach ourselves other things; e.g. different learning styles via the variety of learning contexts end-users undertake. If the user experience is negative, input is interrupted or terminated. So then, we need to evaluate Web2tools as well as Websites to monitor their effectiveness. Interaction is an important component of engagement and retention. Subsequently, with positive outcomes, confidence and self-esteem is increased, as well as motivation and an understanding how incentives eventually are improving lives through proactive engagement in the workforce. This provides benefits by impacting on professional, personal and social lives; e.g. increased levels of skills and knowledge with computers, reading, writing, communication, numeracy. Quality assurance measures are more easily implemented when employees know how to interpret associations with literacy, numeracy, signs and symbols [having an aptitude] so they are able to complete all requirements and responsibilities of their job.

A case study: Pearson’s (1996) report on 30 workplaces and 500 individual responses; “More than Money Can Say: The impact of ESL and literacy training in the Australian workplace,” found that language and literacy training as considered to have had “a positive effect on five aspects of the workplace.” Impact evaluation instruments included 1) Direct savings; the nature and degree of outcomes 2) Access to and acceptability of further training; identifying and applying 3) Participation in teams/meetings; values specific gains 4) Promotion and job flexibility; any changes to the values of promotions and literacy 5) The value of training; e.g. work morale and confidence to communicate; focus: personal and interpersonal gains of participants from training (NCVER, p.16, 2006).

References

National Centre of Vocational Education Research. (2006). Social and economic benefits of improved adult literacy: Towards a better understanding. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED495174.pdf on December 18, 2017

Pearson, Geoff (1996) More than money can say: The impact of ESL and literacy training in the Australian workplace. Retrieved from http://www.voced.edu.au/content/ngv%3A2967