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Bye Twitter and Welcome Mastodon. Please follow Elinet there

Bye Twitter and Welcome Mastodon. Please follow Elinet there

26/11/2022

Author: Jeroen Clemens, ELINET Web Administrator, Elinet Co-chair `Digital Literacy

We move to Mastodon.

ELINET is not happy with Twitter. We discussed this and decided to leave Twitter and move to Mastodon. We are waiting for you. Please share this message broadly in your networks.

Please find us here: https://mastodon.education/@ELINET. Our name (handle) is @ELINET@mastodon.education.

Why did we leave Twitter? Our board member and co-chair of Digital Literacy Colin Harrison formulated our thoughts very eloquently in a letter he sent to the Guardian, a major UK newspaper, on Wednesday, November 2.… Read the rest

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ELINET’s Research Reports are available

ELINET’s Research Reports are available

06/11/2022 Comments 0 Comment

Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills of Children in Early and Primary Years’ Education

Members of the ELINET Association are delighted to share the publications they have prepared.

Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills: Good Practices for Early and Primary Years Education. This comprehensive report gives an overview about relevant studies concerning the development of digital skills of children, addressing age groups of 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12 years. You can download it here

Also, available is a shorter version of this report with recommendations.… Read the rest

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Blog #9 Get Readers on the Wavelength of Emotions (GROWE) project

Blog #9 Get Readers on the Wavelength of Emotions (GROWE) project

21/10/2022 Comments 0 Comment

Two birds with one stone

By Ariana-Stanca Vacaretu and Maria Kovacs, Asociatia LSDGC Romania

In this blog, we first describe how we built on our experiences and partnerships to develop a European project called Get Readers on the Wavelength of Emotions (GROWE). Next, we share the conceptual model that underpins the GROWE project, and some findings about the impact of the GROWE teacher training program. 

When we first thought of the GROWE project, our motivation was to collaborate with European partners to work out a way for the secondary classroom to tackle disciplinary literacy and social-emotional learning simultaneously.… Read the rest

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European Declaration of Digital Literacy as a Basic Right of Children

European Declaration of Digital Literacy as a Basic Right of Children

03/10/2022 Comments 0 Comment

ELINET’s “European Declaration of Digital Literacy as a Basic Right of Children” and the related presentation about the work results of our cross-cutting topic project on “Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education” have been presented at the 22nd European Literacy Conference in July 2022 in Dublin and are now available on our website.

You can find both documents here:

  • European Declaration of Digital Literacy as a Basic Right of Children
  • The presentation about the work results

 

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ELINET’s Collection of European Good Practice Examples 2022

ELINET’s Collection of European Good Practice Examples 2022

02/06/2022 Comments 0 Comment

During our work on our cross-cutting topic “Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills of Children in Early and Primary Years’ Education” we collected, translated and reviewed good practice examples from all over Europe addressing children of 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12 years. 16 examples have been approved by our expert reviewers and you can look at them here.

Background

Cross-cutting topic

The ELINET Association decided in 2019 to focus its work on relevant cross-cutting topics to which the members of all Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) could contribute.… Read the rest

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Running CALL for Good Practice Examples

Running CALL for Good Practice Examples

20/07/2020 Comments 2 comments

This Call addresses experts to contribute to our Annual Topic 2020-2021: Enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education. We are looking for good practice examples for three age groups: 0-3 years, 3-6 years, and 6-10 years.

  • Submit: You can submit your project descriptions using an online form in the following languages: Deutsch, English, Italiano, Magyar, Nederlands, Português, Español, Türkçe.
… Read the rest
Blog #8 Citizen Literacy Blog

Blog #8 Citizen Literacy Blog

20/09/2022 Comments 0 Comment

Citizen Literacy Blog
John Casey, Diane Gardner

TETO: Test Early and Test Often!
The importance of user feedback in developing an adult literacy programme using modern technology.

Citizen Literacy is an adult literacy programme that uses integrated printed and digital resources to support tutors teaching adults how to read and write. Designing and creating such resources cannot be conducted in a feedback vacuum. The title of this blog is taken from the early days of user-centred feedback for the web and is more relevant than ever to those of us involved in using technology in education.… Read the rest

Elinet at the European Conference on Literacy 2022

Elinet at the European Conference on Literacy 2022

03/06/2022 Comments 0 Comment

Elinet will make several contributions (General Assembly, Symposiums, Papers & Poster sessions) to the European Conference on Literacy and the 46th Annual Conference taking place in Dublin, Ireland from July 4th to July 6th.
See all further details below. Elinet Members’ names are in italic. 

ELINET Fifth Annual General Assembly 

Sunday, July 3th 17.00-18.00 Meeting of Members of the EUROPEAN LITERACY POLICY NETWORK ASSOCIATION e.V.

… Read the rest
Blog #7: Finland’s first book gifting program

Blog #7: Finland’s first book gifting program

02/03/2022 Comments 0 Comment

Finland’s first book gifting program supported early reading with success

Emmi Jäkkö, Development director, The Finnish Reading Centre

Two thirds of the families that received one of the book gift program’s Lukulahja lapselle book bags at a maternal and child health care clinic are reading more than before, according to the impact survey. All the public health nurses involved believe that the book bags encourage families to read.… Read the rest

Country Reports accessible now

Country Reports accessible now

04/11/2021 Comments 0 Comment

The Country Reports of 30 European countries are now accessible through this website. As some of you mentioned they were temporaryly not. This because we lost access to the old ELINET website.  See more details on this page. 

At ELINET, literacy experts have come together and taken over this task for you. We have screened a breadth of available qualitative and quantitative research data, compiled reliable and up-to-date reports and condensed the most relevant information on literacy performance and policies into an executive summary.… Read the rest

Conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, Zagreb, Croatia,

Conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, Zagreb, Croatia,

20/07/2021 Comments 0 Comment

The Croatian Reading Association (CroRa) is a national association that promotes literacy and holds an annual professional conference on September 8, date of the International literacy day. Goal of the conference is to gather professionals and initiate discussions in Croatian society on literacy and the importance of reading.

Jeroen Clemens will represent Elinet and give a presentation as a special guest.

This year, in cooperation with the Croatian Library for the Blind and Školska knjiga (publisher), professional conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, will take place (live or online, depending on the epidemiological situation), on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Zagreb.… Read the rest

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