{"id":1067,"date":"2019-09-15T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T21:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=1067"},"modified":"2021-11-05T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T01:25:02","slug":"skilled-up","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/portfolio\/skilled-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilled Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Sandra Michele Echols and I met at a NYLA conference a few years ago, we immediately recognized our shared interest in the special needs of adult learners with regards to digital and information literacy. We&#8217;ve been talking about this and sharing resources for a while now, and decided to share some of our work with the rest of the world. We&#8217;ve titled our project &#8220;Skilled Up,&#8221; focused around a stair-step model to build up from a set of basic skills.  In our work with adult learners we came to recognize that many adult learners don&#8217;t have the foundational digital skills that instructors (and curriculums) may take for granted &#8211; and we want to help change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During June 2019 we presented our work on this so far as a poster at ALA in Washington, DC, for the Educators Poster Session. You can click on the poster image below to view the full-size, zoomable PDF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SkilledUpEcholsKirkland.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ALA-poster-Final-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, you can see another earlier presentation about this project at <a href=\"https:\/\/acrl.ala.org\/DLS\/2019-virtual-poster-session\/skilled-up\/\">https:\/\/acrl.ala.org\/DLS\/2019-virtual-poster-session\/skilled-up\/<\/a>. We participated in the Spring 2019 Virtual Poster Session for ACRL&#8217;s Distance Learning Section Instruction Group. At that site you can see a Prezi (interactive digital presentation). We&#8217;d love to hear your feedback on this work in progress, so please contact us with your thoughts!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/i0000012.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1074\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/i0000012.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/i0000012-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/i0000012-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ardenkirkland.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/i0000012-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption>Here we are with our poster, about our SkilledUp model for adult learning.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve titled our project &#8220;Skilled Up,&#8221; focused around a stair-step model to build up from a set of basic skills.  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