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THE DOI2T PROGRAM IN MORE DETAIL:

  • Discover Online Integrated Information Technology (DOI2T) has been an astounding success for our community and practitioner network. The program began as a Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) pilot program in our Sioux Lookout Learning Centre in 2018 and has quickly expanded into a partnership with several local community-partners and adult learning centres in Ontario.

  • DOI2T's objective is to utilize technology-based learning that requires both a digital component and a hands-on creative component in order to engage adult learners in need of increasing their digital literacy.

  • DOI2T provides adult learners with new and exciting technologies—such as Cricut, 3D printing, and Ozobot robots—that teach contemporary workplace skills, life skills, and independence. Considering the expensive cost to acquire these technologies, DOI2T offers learners the opportunity to learn with equipment that might otherwise be financially unobtainable. Furthermore, all of these technologies can be used offline, a necessity in our geographic region where internet access is often unreliable.

  • DOI2T is not meant to be temporally or andragogically strict, but instead is meant to excite adult learners and adapt to adult learning needs. In Sioux Lookout, DOI2T sessions are never longer than two hours (usually they are only one hour), which is a direct response from learner requests. Modern learners want info now and want it quick.

  • DOI2T serves our existing learners and has activated large numbers of new learners from Sioux Lookout and the thirty Indigenous communities north of us in Northwestern Ontario.

  • We believe a reason for the excitement of our DOI2T learners is the creativity involved in our technologies and our curriculum. Cricut, 3D printing, and Ozobots all require the learner to be inventive and creative, and with Cricut and 3D printing sessions, the learner always leaves the session with a finished project, evidence of their successful digital learning. This is a fundamental reason for the high level of engagement from our Sioux Lookout community's Oji-Cree Indigenous majority population.

DOI2T PROVINCE-WIDE PARTNERS:

The SHLC has worked to expand the scope of the DOI2T program by helping other learning centres around Ontario fund and facilitate DOI2T programming. These DOI2T partners have helped build a valuable sharing and support network, and we are excited to experience the network's growth. The current DOI2T partners are:

Bridges Dryden and Area Adult Learning Centre

Valley Adult Learning Association - Fort Francis

Atikokan Literacy Inc. Adult Learning Centre

Hamilton Regional Indian Centre

Six Nations Achievement Centre - Ohsweken

Niagara Regional Native Centre - St. Catharines

Lac Seul Training Centre of Excellence - Hudson

Keewaytinook Internet High School - Fort Severn

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DOI2T COMMUNITY PARTNERS:

Our DOI2T program has made every effort to collaborate with the numerous social services in and around our community of Sioux Lookout. As a medical, education, political, and transportation hub for Northwestern Ontario (there are thirty First Nation communities north of us, most only accessible my air or ice road), Sioux Lookout offers a unique opportunity for our DOI2T program to reach people from a vast geographic area. In Sioux Lookout, the DOI2T program actively provides programming with the following organizations:

Sioux Lookout Meno Ya Win Health Centre

Jeremiah McKay Kabayshewekamik Hostel

Sioux Lookout Supportive Housing Facility

Community Living Dryden-Sioux Lookout

Sioux Lookout Public Library

Sioux North High School

Sioux Lookout Seniors Centre

SIOUX-HUDSON LITERACY COUNCIL

The Sioux-Hudson Literacy Council (SHLC) runs an onsite Literacy and Basic Skills Program (LBS) through the Sioux Lookout Learning Centre in Sioux Lookout, Ontario. The SHLC also runs Good Learning Anywhere (GLA), the Indigenous eChannel stream for Ontario's LBS online education program. The SHLC is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development.

SHLC MISSION STATEMENT:

The SHLC's mission is to promote and provide free access to the highest quality literacy programs, services, and opportunities for a diverse multi-cultural and multi-aged community primarily in Sioux Lookout and Hudson, but Ontario at large as well. Furthermore, our mission is to provide a culturally supportive, flexible environment for First Nations, Aboriginal, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, and organizations striving to improve their skills to improve the quality of life at home, at work, and in the community.

SHLC VISION STATEMENT:

The SHLC seeks to see adults, young people, and families in Sioux Lookout, Hudson, and Ontario at large with literacy goals living full lives at home, at work and in their communities because they value life-long learning and have full and equitable access to programs and opportunities.

NOTE FOR CLARITY:

The SHLC runs both the Sioux Lookout Learning Centre and the online-based learning platform Good Learning Anywhere (GLA). The Learning Centre is a small operation based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, while GLA is a much larger operation responsible for the Indigenous stream of adult literacy and basic skills (LBS) online training for all of Ontario. Our DOI2T program is a collaboration between both the Sioux Lookout Learning Centre and GLA.

Furthermore, this Employment Ontario program is funded in part by the Government of Canada and the Government of Ontario.