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

20/07/2020 Comments 0 Comment

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 of our project:

European Framework of good practice in enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education”
European policy paper as a short summary of the Framework (similar to ELINET’s European Literacy Declaration), both addressing policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders in this field.

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Report World Literacy Summit Oxford, April 2020

31/05/2020 Comments 0 Comment

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 registration on July 1, 2020.… Read the rest

Call for nominations for the UNESCO International Literacy Prizes 2020

21/05/2020 Comments 0 Comment

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 and changing pedagogies”.… Read the rest

Digital Citizenship Education Survey for Parents

21/05/2020 Comments 0 Comment

Elinet supports this survey from the Council of Europe.
If you are a parent, you are invited to take part in the Digital Citizenship Education Survey from the Council of Europe, in English, Azerbaijani , Croatian , French , German , Greek , Icelandic , Italian , Portuguese , Romanian , Slovenian , Spanish , or Turkish .
We invite you to fill in the following anonymous survey.… Read the rest

European Conference on Literacy, Dublin July 4-6 2022

12/05/2020 Comments 6 comments

The 22^nd European Conference on Literacy and the 46th Annual Conference, which is jointly organised by the Federation of European Literacy Associations and The Literacy Association of Ireland, has been postponed due to COVID-19 until 2022. The Conference will now take place in Dublin, Ireland from July 4^th to July 6^th, 2022, alongside the 46^th Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland.… Read the rest

TWG Blog #2 PISA 2018 assessment of reading literacy

29/04/2020 Comments 0 Comment

The second ELINET blog is from the from TWG International Literacy Assessments on the topic PISA 2018 assessment of reading literacy: innovations and continuity by Dominique Lafontaine, member of the PISA reading expert group.
It starts like this: From print to digital reading
Between 2000 and 2018, reading underwent a tremendous transformation in our societies. When the first framework for PISA 2000 was developed, less than 2% of the world’s population used the Internet.… Read the rest

Elinet TWG Blog #1 International Literacy Assessments.

06/03/2020 Comments 0 Comment

Elinet wants to update you better by writing blogs, related to the TWG Topics.
The first blog is from Sari Sulkunen and Bill Brozo, Title: International Literacy Assessments
It starts like this: Whenever there is a release of the findings from a new PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) cycle, it triggers a barrage of responses from pundits, policy makers, researchers, and the public. … Read the rest

Key messages PISA and Beyond Conference December 9, 2019

18/12/2019 Comments 1 comment

Reported by Sari Sulkunen, board member Elinet. You can download the PDF version here

The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture organized a one-day conference PISA and Beyond building on the publication of the new PISA results. The conference took place in Helsinki on December 9, 2019. The conference aimed to present the new PISA results and discuss what we can learn from them. Most of the participants came from European ministries and other governmental agencies.… Read the rest

CALL for contributions to ELINET’s Annual Topic 2020

18/12/2019 Comments 0 Comment

ELINET’s Annual Topic 2020: “Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills: Good Practices for Early and Primary Years Education”
at the 4^th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy in Tallinn on January 18, 2020, from 11.30 to 17.30!

This CALL addresses all members of the ELINET Association and external experts to contribute to our Annual Topic (above).
We want to collect, exchange and analyze research and good practice examples on this topic – especially projects, reports and examples which are only available in national languages and need to be translated into English in order to reach out to the international community of literacy experts, researchers and practitioners.… Read the rest

Conference on History Teaching and Disciplinary Literacy June 4−5, 2020.

08/11/2019 Comments 0 Comment

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.… Read the rest