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:
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.
We have been working hard to meet the needs of low literacy adult learners and their tutors, by creating a structured, phonics-based programme which includes a focus on spelling, the alphabet and grammar.… Read the rest
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 presentations at this conference.
The 4th International Conference Literacy and Contemporary Society: Transitions in Digital Learning focuses on the transformation of learning, being, and communicating, as an inherent characteristic of modern societies but as yet intensified due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year. The pandemic has accelerated the utilization of new literacy forms, practices, and spaces, and hybridized new and traditional literacies.
The wide transition to digital learning and communication exacerbated the need to critically engage with text and information, while also making visible broader challenges that have long permeated education and society.… Read the rest
Bill Brozo TIMSS, Reading, and Disciplinary Literacy
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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.
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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 that children are not specifically targeted by most existing definitions and frameworks, and is particularly relevant in the present moment, as digital literacy of young people has become even more important due to the increase of time spent online by children.
The report is available here: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/reports/digital-literacy-children.
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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.
For Bill, this has been an area of scholarly interest for over 20 years, culminating in his newest book on the topic (Engaging Boys in Active Literacy: Evidence and Practice, 2019, Cambridge University Press). For Sari, gender has been a relevant factor in all of her research, including her doctoral work on text authenticity in PISA 2000. See also Sulkunen and Kauppinen, 2018, “I know that at Least Some Boys in my Class Read Something”: Boys’ (Partly Hidden) Literacies].… Read the rest
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.
Update: The Conference Making Sense of History scheduled for June 4-5, 2020 has been cancelled due to Covid-19.
Conference Making sense of history invites researchers, graduate students and practitioners interested in the pedagogy of history to submit proposals that address the learning and teaching history in schools, universities, and, more generally, society. The topics include (but are not limited to) historical thinking, skill-based history teaching, and disciplinary literacies in history.
Call for papers is open until January 12, 2020. For details, see http://hislit.fi/teho2020en/ The conference will be held at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 4−5, 2020.
Update The Language Education for Social Justice conference that was scheduled for June 2020 has been postponed due to Covid-19. The conference will take place from June 1-3, 2021 in Jyväskylä, Finland. All accepted papers, colloquia, workshops, roundtable discussions and rants will stay accepted, unless the participants prefer to cancel their presentation. Also all four keynote speakers have agreed to join us also in 2021. For details, see the website: https://sites.google.com/jyu.fi/lang-education-social-justice/home
Conference Language Education for Social Justice invites teachers, teacher educators, and researchers interested in language and education to come together in thinking about how to improve language education for all.
Call for papers in open until December 15, 2019. For details, see https://sites.google.com/jyu.fi/lang-education-social-justice/home
Conference is the 37th Conference of Applied Linguistics, and it will be held at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, on June 1−3, 2020.… Read the rest