Jyväskylä Conference Language Education for Social Justice

Jyväskylä Conference Language Education for Social Justice

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The 37th Conference of Applied Language Studies, Education for Social Justice Conference will take place completely online on June 1-3, 2021 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Join the conference and register on the Conference website.
What does social justice have to do with language education? Why do we need to talk about social justice as language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers?

At this conference, ELINET organizes a two-hour … Read the rest

Conference ‘Literacy and Contemporary Society. Transitions in Digital Learning’ in Cyprus. 

Conference ‘Literacy and Contemporary Society. Transitions in Digital Learning’ in Cyprus. 

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ELINET wants to draw your attention to the 4th International Conference ‘Literacy and Contemporary Society. Transitions in Digital Learning’ on May 12 and 13 in Cyprus. The conference will be held online as a virtual conference.
From ELINET the chairs of the TWG Digital Literacy, Fabio Nascimbeni, and  Jeroen Clemens will give their presentation at this conference. 

The 4th International Conference Literacy and Contemporary … Read the rest

Blog #5 TIMSS, Reading, and Disciplinary Literacy Bill Brozo

Blog #5 TIMSS, Reading, and Disciplinary Literacy Bill Brozo

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TIMSS, Reading, and Disciplinary Literacy Bill Brozo 23/02/2021

Our Fifth Blog.
See the Blog Page for the rest of the text and more blogs. 

With the recent release of the results of the 2019 cycle of Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), it is important to consider the extent to which literacy skills and abilities are essential for success on this assessment. 

Longer Reflections through Blogs

Longer Reflections through Blogs

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ELINET  wants to share longer reflections with you. We started to use Blogs for this. 
The authors of the Blogs are Elinet members or invited guests.
If you want to share your wisdom, related to Literacy, contact TWG chairs or the board. 
Go to the Blogs Tab in the menu or Click here

 

MultiLEAP Webinar Pedagogy of multiliteracies in classroom: disciplinary perspectives

MultiLEAP Webinar Pedagogy of multiliteracies in classroom: disciplinary perspectives

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Welcome to MultiLEAP Webinar on March 30 at 10.00–11.30!
Please share this invitation within your networks! Students are also welcome!
Relation to ELINET: Sari Sulkunen, Board Member ELINET . See her Expert Page. She takes, as an Associate Professor, part in MultiLEAP

What: MultiLEAP Webinar – Pedagogy of multiliteracies in classroom: disciplinary perspectives
When: Tuesday 30th of March 2021, at 10.00–11.30 (… Read the rest

Adolescent Literacy in Malta

Adolescent Literacy in Malta

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by Pamela Zerafa
[This is the fourth Blog in the blog series from the TWG International Literacy Assessments]
Since literacy is an essential key competence for lifelong learning (EC 2018), it has been the object of assessment in Malta in many local and international studies. The results of these assessments, unfortunately, shed light on the literacy crisis we Maltese seem to be sharing with the … Read the rest

Fabio Nascimbeni UNICEF Scoping Paper on Children Digital Literacy

Fabio Nascimbeni UNICEF Scoping Paper on Children Digital Literacy

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Fabio Nascimbeni, member of the ELINET Board of Directors, authors the UNICEF Scoping Paper on Children Digital Literacy. Fabio has been leading a research on behalf of UNICEF that has culminated with the publication of the UNICEF Scoping Paper “Digital Literacy for Children”.
The paper presents a definition and some possible competencies frameworks for children digital literacy, closing the gap connected to the fact … Read the rest

UPDATE: Keynotes Online Conference of The Reading Association of Russia 19-11-2020

UPDATE: Keynotes Online Conference of The Reading Association of Russia 19-11-2020

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Update: We did it. The first day of the conference was wonderful. If you were not able to participate online, fore a while (don’t know how long) you can (re)view the keynotes HERE. (1) Colin Harrison starting at -2.40 min., (2) Bill Brozo at -1.48 and (3) Jeroen Clemens at -43 (strange timetable, but you’ll find it this way)

On November, 19, Bill … Read the rest

UNICEF Draft Policy Guidance on AI for Children

UNICEF Draft Policy Guidance on AI for Children

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Interesting activity from UNICEF. Please read and comment. 

Thank you to everyone who joined last week’s launch of the draft Policy Guidance on AI for Children, in partnership with the Government of Finland. We hope you enjoyed our event and wanted to share a few follow-up links with you:

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MOOC Free Course on Digital Literacy starting September 16, 2020

MOOC Free Course on Digital Literacy starting September 16, 2020

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The Digital Literacy Lab for Educators announces their next project, a 5-week free online course on digital literacies, in partnership with the Commonwealth of Learning and Dilectae. The facilitator is Dr Emma Pauncefort, the founder of Dilectae and its headline initiative, The Critical Literacy Project. You can enrol here.
ELINET thinks this to be an interesting MOOC. 

The uncertain future facing society at large … Read the rest