Category: A Look at Learning
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What DALC means to me
As we begin a new learning year, we asked our students and tutors what DALC (Dublin Adult Learning Centre) means to them. The impact of DALC on people’s lives is clear – a positive learning environment for all. Let’s hope 2023 will be another great year! “DALC is a place that can give you confidence […]
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Bobby: The dog of DALC
My name is Bobby and I am the dog of DALC! My owner Victor works as the caretaker in our building. I come in with him when he works at reception, when he opens the centre and when he closes it at night. I am a very friendly dog who loves everyone. I follow one […]
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Active Citizenship and The Story of a Sewing Machine
Over the months of October and November we ran an active citizenship course entitled Get Engaged. It was a course devised by Age and Opportunity to encourage engagement in an initiative that relates to an issue in your community. Brian Dooney (of Age and Opportunity) and Fionnaigh (a tutor in DALC) worked together over the […]
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Well Now Programme
For the last 10 weeks, we have been running the NALA Well Now programme in DALC with facilitator Marian Baker, in partnership with Catherine Heaney of Healthy Communities Project Co-coordinator with Dublin City Community Coop. Along with our existing DALC students, we recruited students to participate from the Dublin 1 area. Here they are getting […]
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Gallery Trip
Last Friday 1st July we went out to the National Gallery. The trip had a number of aims – firstly to introduce the idea of finding different locations on a map. We had three separate meeting points – the DALC centre at Mountjoy Square, the Spire in O’Connell Street and finally the front gates at […]
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Our Reading Morning
This week we held our first in-person reading morning in two years. For the previous two years we brought some of our groups together on Zoom to share some of the pieces they had written. However, the act of standing up and reading aloud in a packed room is something that is much more powerful. […]
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A Week to Celebrate Learning!
It has been a wonderful few days of workshops and learning trails as here in DALC we launched Dublin’s first Learning Neighbourhood as part of the Dublin Learning City festival. On Monday, we had a visit from Dublin’s Lord Mayor Alison Gilliland. Mary Maher, our director, spoke about the potential for learning in the North […]
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Experiences with Reading
Two groups got involved in the Ireland Reads – a national day to celebrate reading – on Friday 25th February. Below is how the groups explored their experiences with reading: In our literacy group, we pledged to read for 30 minutes. Some students brought in their own books to read, for others they chose some […]
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Geopolitics in the Adult Literacy Classroom
In facilitating most of our classes we start with a check in. It is a chance for the students to express how they are feeling about the learning today or perhaps talk about what we covered last week. This week the topic of Ukraine came up and led to a very good discussion – why […]
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Which is better: Online Classes or Face to Face?
“I think it’s better in the class because you can interact with people. You can learn from them as well. I think you learn better in the class. You pick up things better in the class then you do online. Online is alright but I wouldn’t say its great for interacting. You learn more being […]
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