Since its launch, in December 2022, the self-Learn project has made progress by developing the Mobile self-Learning Tool Curriculum, structured on 3 Pillars: I. Reading Comprehension, II. Numeracy and III. Digital Skills. The precise/particular needs of low-skilled adults in all three pillars; have been converted in the self-Learn Curriculum.
Each of the three Pillars has two difficulty levels. At Level 1: the learners can find easily identifiable information in ordinary prose texts and can follow written instructions in simple documents. When numeracy information is very concrete and familiar, they can find numbers and use them to perform simple quantitative operations. The users can only use their smartphones to make calls digitally. Our aim is to raise users to this level. At Level 2: Demonstrates the skills necessary to perform basic, simple, and everyday literacy activities. They read and understand information in short, ordinary prose texts. They find easily identifiable quantitative information and use it to solve simple, one-step problems when the arithmetic operation is specified or easily inferred. The learners can perform activities such as texting, using WhatsApp, and accessing the Internet with a search engine on their smartphones. Our aim is to raise users to this level.
Based on this Curriculum, partners are developing the Learning Content for the three Pillars level 1 & level 2 and Guidance Training for Mentors in an innovative approach that will allow its easy insertion in the Android Mobile Tool.
The PRE skill level assessment and POST skill level assessment tests are in the process of development.
The PRE skill level assessment test aims to the self-determination of the state of literacies/illiteracies of adults (level of their low-skilledness) and offering them which level they should start with (Level 1 or 2).
The POST skill level assessment tests will be used for measuring the perception level of the users. This will be employed to monitor the individual’s progress for her/his own information and to evaluate project’s success rate.
In the same time the technical experts from the self-Learn team developed the project platform available at www.self-Learn.eu and designed the first version of the Mobile Application.
self-Learn philosophy is based on the ideas that: lifelong learning is a form of self-initiated education that can shape our path to personal fulfillment and satisfaction; there are no “low-intelligent” persons, as each of us is uniquely empowered with an amalgam of high skills = ”intelligences”, innate or acquired, in some certain areas, and, for different reasons “low-skilled” in other areas; there is always something new to learn from each experience, always a time for knowledge refreshment or added value to our skills luggage. Therefore, given the fact that “low-skilledness” does not mean “low-intelligence”, we believe that all individuals desire to improve their skill levels on their own, in at least one of the areas of a major importance for our existence and progress that self-Learn covers: reading comprehension, numeracy, and digital skills.
