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UNICEF Draft Policy Guidance on AI for Children

25/09/2020 Comments 0 Comment

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:

Recording of the webinar.
The draft Policy Guidance on AI for Children.
Video of the child consultation workshops.
The community’s tweets at #ai4children.

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

13/09/2020 Comments 0 Comment

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

07/08/2020 Comments 0 Comment

#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

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. Other versions will be available soon.
Translate: If you prefer, you can translate the call into your national language. Here you find the English text for translation. Please send the translated version to Tiziana Mascia or Jeroen Clemens. We will share a new online version of the form in your language and add it to the choices.

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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.

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

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

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.

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