ALS Student Case Study: Yousef_Habo

LEARNER INFORMATION
Name: Yousef Mahmoud Habo  
Age:  20    
Postcode:      L8 2UA
How did you find out about the course?

 

I heard about it from my brother who started a computer course with EDT months before me and told me how much he was enjoying it and that i should attend the EDT centre and start a course.

 

Course attended

 

 Beginners ICT
What did you enjoy most about the course?
When I started the course, I had never used a PC, I had used a tablet and my phone before to use the internet and to use email, so learning like this was all new to me. From the start I enjoyed learning how to do new things in little steps at first but quickly finding that I could build on these steps to do far more difficult things. This was very satisfying to me. I soon felt confident and wanted to learn more and more, I enjoyed the way the EDT teachers got me to push myself in each lesson and to think about what I’d learned and how I could make it all come together to complete a task. The exercises were great, they looked too difficult for me when I first saw them but they made me use the skills I had learned and prove to myself that I knew which tools to use to make my document look like the printed example they had asked me to recreate.

 
Did you need any extra support to help you learn? What was it and how did it help you?

 

 

 Yes, when I first started my English was poor and it was hard for me to understand all of the instructions but the tutor showed me what I needed to do by showing me where things were on the screen and how the paper exercises linked to the toolbars and images shown on the screen. By following the spoken guides from the tutor and the images and I could follow things even though I could not understand all of the written instructions. I had also started doing an ESOL course with Liverpool ALS, the ESOL course along with EDT’s explanations really helped me to improve my English.
 

How has this course benefited you? (personal, family, work)

 

  

Learning basic IT skills has helped me with everything else I am doing, I can look for things online to practice my ESOL lessons, I can type up my ESOL homework I can send emails and attach things to the email. I have been able to look for other courses and apply for them with online forms. And meeting and talking to the tutors and to other people in the classrooms has helped me with my English.

 
What would you say to a friend who is thinking about joining a course?
I would say what my brother said to me which was do it. EDT are great at helping you and letting you work at your own speed which is very important, but they always challenge you to work harder and make you think about how far you can push your learning to the next levels.
 

What did you achieve?

 

  

I started the course wanting to know just about the basics of  IT but I think I have learned far more than this. I have learned IT skills and improved my English and feel easier talking to people now and this has improved my confidence daily and also given me the confidence to take on and learn new things.
 

What is next for you?

  

EDT have encouraged me to build my knowledge by doing a full certificate in IT at their centre on Great Homer Street, I will be able to do it as a drop-in calling in whenever I get the chance and working at my own speed and this will be very helpful to me. They said they will also help me look and apply for work and even practice some interview skills and I am looking forward to this.

Yousef Mahmoud Habo

My name is Yousef and I am from Senegal. I have been living in Liverpool in the UK for over a year.
I am taking courses in IT and English language to improve my situation.