Blog #4 Adolescent Literacy in Malta

Blog #4 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 rest of the world. For instance, in the most recent Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the mean reading score of Maltese ten-year-olds (477) was significantly lower than the international average (500) (MEDE 2017). Similarly, a local study conducted by Professor Mark Borg (2018) on differences in Achievement in the End-of-Year Benchmark 2012-2018 concluded that the mean achievement scores in each of the three core subjects for students in Year 6 (11-year-olds) attending State Schools are consistently below the national standardised mean of 500.… 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 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. 

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 Brozo and Jeroen Clemens, board members of ELINET will provide keynotes on the conference of The Reading Association of Russia in Moscow. Because of the COVID-19, it will be through a video-presentation.

  • Colin Harrison is planned to start at 2.25 pm
  • William Brozo   –   3.25pm
  • Jeroen Clemens –  4.00pm
  • Besides you, there will be two speakers  in Russian

  

The Reading Association of Russia
The 6th International Conference
Reading and Literacy in Education and Culture: Letters in Digits

Plenary session: November 19, 2020
(starting at 3p.m.… 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:

We want to hear from you!

  • Please provide feedback on the policy guidance here. Our public consultation is open until 16 October.
  • Please use the guidance and share your findings with us at ai4children@unicef.org. Further instructions can be found in the policy guidance document.
  • For those who attended, please fill out a short survey.
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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 due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis makes the need for widespread digital literacy even greater. We believe this is an essential course of personal and professional development for instructors, mentors, learners, and anyone interested in making sense of our society’s reflexive relationship with technology. The first five modules of the course are the building blocks for the Digital Literacy Lab for Educators (or DLLE).… 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. 
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

Running CALL for Good Practice Examples

Running CALL for Good Practice Examples

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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.

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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 of our project:

  1. European Framework of good practice in enhancing digital literacy skills in early and primary years’ education”
  2. 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.

Both papers shall contain research-based recommendations for educating pre-school and primary school children to become digitally literate citizens.… 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 registration on July 1, 2020. This platform will offer vital resources for all educators who are looking for new ways to engage their remote students. For registration and update on WLSOnline please go to the following website https://www.worldliteracysummit.org/programme
For people who cannot wait for July, at the end of this text, you’ll find some examples of presentations. So, read on. And, see you in July.… 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 and changing pedagogies”. This theme is all the more relevant given the exceptional circumstances we are currently facing: to ensure the continuity of education for the duration of this pandemic, we are using innovative remote learning solutions on an unprecedented scale. See leaflet in English and French

Established in 1967, these Prizes are composed of two UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prizes, sponsored by the Republic of Korea, and three UNESCO Confucius Prizes for Literacy, sponsored by the People’s Republic of China.… Read the rest