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CALL for GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLES Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education

CALL for GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLES Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education

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This Call addresses members of ELINET  and external experts to contribute to our Annual Topic 2020-2021: Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education.
Share: We ask you to spread this call within your regional and national networks and to submit good practice examples. You can download and use the text of the call.
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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

Blog Post #3 TWG International Literacy Assessments

Blog Post #3 TWG International Literacy Assessments

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#3 Blog from the TWG International Literacy Assessments. See other blogs through this page.

Bill Brozo & Sari Sulkunen What Should We Make of the Overall Narrowing of the Gender Gap in Reading Literacy on PISA 2018?

In previous posts, broad-level findings from PISA 2018 have been presented and analyzed.  In this post, we focus more narrowly on patterns of gender performance in reading literacy. … Read the rest

CALL for CO-AUTHORS in ELINET’s Annual Topic Project 2020-2021

CALL for CO-AUTHORS in ELINET’s Annual Topic Project 2020-2021

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This Call addresses all members of the ELINET Association and external experts to contribute to our Annual Topic 2020-2021: Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education. You can download this call here. We also kindly ask you also to spread this call within your regional and national networks
We are looking for co-authors who will contribute to the two main outcomes … Read the rest

Report World Literacy Summit Oxford, April 2020

Report World Literacy Summit Oxford, April 2020

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Report about the World Literacy Summit, Oxford, in April 2020
by Dorothee Gaile, Co-Chair of Thematic Working Group on Adolescent & Disciplinary Literacy in the ELINET Association)

Latest news: Literacy is your topic? You can gain free unlimited access to the recorded content, keynote and over 100 expert presentations of the World Literacy Summit 2020 on a “Netflix”-style platform: WLSOnline will be open for … Read the rest

Call for nominations for the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2020

Call for nominations for the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2020

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Elinet supports the UNESCO International Literacy Prices Call for nominations and invites you to submit nominations for this year’s edition of the Prizes in English or French by 12 July 2020 at the very latest.

UNESCO is honoured to launch the call for nominations for the 2020 edition of the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes, on the theme “Teaching and learning literacy: The role of educators … Read the rest