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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. 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

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”. 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

Digital Citizenship Education Survey for Parents

21/05/2020 Comments 1 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. It will take approximately 10-15 minutes of your time and will allow the Council of Europe to learn more about your view of Digital Citizenship. It is important that you respond as precisely as possible, so that the tools the Council of Europe will develop for you and for your children to support Digital Citizenship Education will truly match your needs.… Read the rest

European Conference on Literacy, Dublin July 4-6 2022

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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.

You can submit proposals. For submitting proposals go here.

The deadline for submitting proposals is November 30^th, 2021
Acceptance letters will be sent out before January 31^st, 2022
Early Bird registration will open on February 7^th 2022 and will close on April 30^th, 2022.

Elinet will be present at this conference.… 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. Today, the Internet pervades the life of all citizens, in educational, professional or personal spheres. Laptops, tablets, and more recently smartphones make information available all the time. Today’s students need to be skilled with digital tools and need to develop new skills to deal with the increased complexity and quantity of information available online.… 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. The recent release of the results of the 2018 PISA cycle has been no different. Commendatory words for those at the top of the league tables or have demonstrated impressive score point increases; voices of doom and gloom for countries that have shown poor or declining performance; and resignation among the significant number of lowest achieving countries whose bottom of the table international rankings seem pre-ordained with each assessment cycle. … 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.

OECD senior analyst Miyako Ikeda summarized the main results in PISA 2018. She pointed out that there have been no big changes in the OECD average for reading over the years while the spending on education has increased by at least 15 % during last 10 years. Top performers in reading in PISA 2018 come from economies in China and from Singapore.… 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.
This exchange will mainly be carried out by online media – our website, skype conferences, webinars – and shall lead to create a policy paper (position statement) addressing policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders in this field.… 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.

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.

Conference on Language Education for Social Justice June 1−3, 2020

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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