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What is a Verizon Family Learning/Technology Center?
Operated by Literacy Volunteers of America in 19 states from 1994-2000, Centers integrated the use of technology into family literacy instruction. They ranged from small settings with two high-end computers to larger labs with a variety of 10 to 15 computers of all kinds. The Centers were generally located where families congregated, including elementary schools, housing projects, Head Start facilities, libraries, and other community locations. On average, each Center served twenty-eight families a year. In six years LVA established more than 40 centers nationally.
Family literacy generally has three components: direct instruction for the parent(s); direct instruction for the child(ren); and instruction for parents and children together.
"There is an air of excitement, and everyone is learning. This expensive, modern, mysterious thing [a computer] is not so hard after all!"
-- Coordinator, Verizon Family Learning Center |
"Children are excited by their parents' learning, as evidenced by one young boy who commented, 'Mom, I didn't know you knew how to do that!'"
-- Coordinator, Verizon Family Learning Center |
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