Andrea McMahon

Librarian, writer, adult literacy practitioner. Passionate about library literacy and research informed adult literacy practice.

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

📢 📢📢We have two new episodes of Sold a Story coming...
The first one drops this Thursday, April 4. 🎧🎧🎧

https://t.co/F6Nd8mkMwt

[Larissa Phillips @larissaphillip]

The best parts of listening to Sold a Story w/ a group of adult reading students:

a) seeing them realize how huge & complex this issue is

b) giving them knowledge & means to analyze their own experience.

Kudos to @ehanford & her team for this meaningful podcast!

[Citizen Literacy @citizen_phonics]

@RealGeoffBarton @ASCL_UK @tes Our 30 lesson adult literacy prog is due to be launched soon; each 5th lesson is a formative assessment 2 ensure grasp of phonemes, spelling & grammar, punctuation and alphabet awareness. 1st 10 lessons in free webapp or f2f student and tutor books. https://t.co/XsGIOjYDbC

[Andrea McMahon @andreamcmahon01]

So pleased my story has been selected for 'The Heart Finds A Way' anthology. Profits from the anthology will raise funds for the wonderful Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Thanks to Anjanette Fennell and Southern Key Press for this opportunity🍀@IndigenousLF

[Blake Harvard @effortfuleduktr]

What Creativity Isn’t

You cannot be creative with information you do not possess.

Schools don't kill creativity...they enable it.

https://t.co/WVy5itiLbw

[Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social @StanDehaene]

Test your math knowledge!
Our new experiment evaluates your knowledge of the math vocabulary in English. Click on the link below, the test only takes about 15 minutes.
Thank you for your participation!
https://t.co/35j5vGxrQ1

[Jenny Macaffer - Adult Learning Australia @JennyMacaffer]

Fed's response to the House of Reps Standing C'tee on Employment, Ed & Training report: ‘Don’t take it as read’: Inquiry into adult literacy & its importance tabled 2day in the House of Reps. Missed Rec 14. support for PD delivered by @AdultLearningAu https://t.co/91JbwfN5ky

[Lyn Stone @lifelonglit]

Wow! 1403 registrants for tonight's Chat GPT for Literacy Teachers webinar:
Aus, USA, Singapore, NZ, Japan, UK, Canada, India, Thailand, Brazil, Hungary, China, the UAE, Nigeria, SA and Lebanon are all represented.
https://t.co/WPaU6avUsB

[ALIA @ALIANational]

ALIA Adult Literacy Group Meeting, 1 Aug 4-5pm AEST. Discuss assessment options for adult literacy learners in library programs, and examine the pros and cons of formal and informal assessments. Please bring any assessment tools you use.

Join via Zoom: https://t.co/hRSings7gq

[five from five @FIVEfromFIVE]

Interpreting research and translating it into classroom practice requires specialised knowledge and a lot of time, and the prospect can be daunting and demotivating for busy teachers who are newly aware of the Science of Reading.
View the report at
https://t.co/6m4lnjAfX4

[Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy @Adv_Literacy]

ACAL's @annecastles talks about teenage literacy and her $3 million @arc_gov_au Laureate research project in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald: https://t.co/7NT7Hc05Ro

[Dr Kate de Bruin @DrKatedeBruin]

Proud of my work on the #Literacy Panel in Tasmania & see our report & recommendations released! Political support for evidence-based practice from @RockliffTeam & community campaign by #100percentliteracy Alliance - magic ingredients for successful reform https://t.co/8cNDQjn27b

[Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy @Adv_Literacy]

Introducing ACAL, the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy. We are a new centre of expertise in literacy research and education, based at Australian Catholic University. 🧵 1/4

[five from five @FIVEfromFIVE]

NEW Spelling resource.
Peter Westwood steps through the skills required to be an accurate speller & how teachers can impart these skills to students of all ages – from preschool to adults, with an emphasis on explicit teaching strategies

https://t.co/Ipas2hTzlK

[Andrea McMahon @andreamcmahon01]

If you’re interested in research-informed adult literacy approaches in a one to one setting the Tasmanian Council for Adult Literacy’s instructional videos are a great place to start https://t.co/ZZ3Zakz3KJ #TCAL #adultliteracy @LibrariesTas

[Larissa Phillips @larissaphillip]

A major obstacle in addressing adult literacy crisis is the VAST number of totally ineffective programs clogging the system.

Public libraries: if the main pillar in your basic literacy program is “raising self-esteem”, you are squandering public money & trust.

[ProLiteracy @ProLiteracy]

The pandemic hit adult literacy programs hard. There's many that didn't make it. As we move forward, the options aren't always ideal for adults who need services at different levels.
https://t.co/zCkImbCpkM

[Andrea McMahon @andreamcmahon01]

Brilliant session from Trish Hepworth, Gillian Hallam and panel on ALIA's Professional Pathways Framework- core knowledge+ethics and values @aliaconference #professionalpractice #LISA

[Andrea McMahon @andreamcmahon01]

If you're at ALIA 2022 today Libby Levett and I are presenting on 'Adult Literacy: the missing piece in the Information Literacy Landscape'. We'd love to see you there! @aliaconference #adultliteracy #informationliteracy #MIL #scienceofreading