Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, has decided to dedicate the 2023 International Day of Education (January 24) to Afghan girls and women.
On the occasion of an event organized at the UN headquarters, UNESCO will renew its call to immediately restore their fundamental right to education.
The 22nd European Conference on Literacy is scheduled to take place in Dublin on July 4-6, 2022.
Registration now open. CLICK HERE. Full registration (early bird) to April 30, 2022
The conference theme, “Literacy and Diversity: New Directions” will bring together researchers and educators from all over Europe and further afield to celebrate, discuss, debate and examine matters relating to literacy, literacy teaching and literacy research, across the full span of human learning.… Read the rest
Na uitstel vorig jaar vanwege COVID vindt de 22e European Conference on Literacy nu plaats van 4 tot 6 juli 2022 in Dublin. De conferentie wordt georganiseerd door FELA and the Literacy Association of Ireland. Ga naar de homepage van de conferentie voor meer informatie. Ik nodig jullie uit hier aan deel te nemen. Ik ben een van de medeorganisatoren, vanuit Fela. Deze conferentie vindt om het jaar plaats (zie overzicht van de vorige keren hier).
De Call for proposals staat nog open. Ga hier heen om een voorstel in te dienen. De uiterste datum voor indiening is 30 november 2021.… Read the rest
U bent van harte uitgenodigd om deel te nemen aan het seminar Reading and Learning for all Ages in Ljubljana op 29 oktober, ook beschikbaar via Zoom. Ik geef zelf ook een presentatie. Die zal ik later ter beschikbaar stellen.
You are cordially invited to join the seminar Reading and Learning for all Ages in Ljubljana, October 29, also available through Zoom.
READING AND LEARNING FOR ALL AGES
Date: Venue: Friday, 29 October, 2021
16:00 Ljubljana/ Amsterdam / 15:00 London, Dublin / 17:00 Helsinki, Athens
Venue: Filozofska fakulteta/Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2 Room 2
Online (Zoom): https://uni-lj-si.zoom.us/j/91257945101
Meeting ID: 912 5794 5101
Programme
16:00 Opening Savina Zwitter, Bralno društvo Slovenije
Máirín Wilson, Federation of European Literacy Associations
16:05 Greg Brooks (United Kingdom Literacy Association/Zoom),
Voces paginarum: Origin and limits of the notion that most reading in antiquity and the Middle Ages was oral
We are so used to reading (beyond the initial stages) being silent that it seems strange that some scholars thought that most people in antiquity and the Middle Ages who could read, routinely read aloud, whether they were alone or in company.… Read the rest
The Croatian Reading Association (CroRa) organized the successful conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Zagreb. I talked, as a special guest, about Digital literacy: a challenge for all of us.
In the last few decades, in modern society, we have been witnessing many significant changes in reading and writing initiated by the digital revolution. Since digital world is becoming more and more dominant over physical world it is important to pay attention to digital inclusion, so that every member of society, including those in unfavourable positions, would have access to informational and digital technologies.… Read the rest
The 37th Conference of Applied Language Studies, Education for Social Justice Conference will take place completely online on June 1-3, 2021 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Join the conference and register on the Conference website.
Fabio Nascimbeni en ik, co-chairs Digital Literacy van ELINET, geven een presentatie tijdens een colloquium van ELINET op de deze conferentie. Kom ook.
Fabio Nascimbeni and I, co-chairs Digital Literacy at ELINET, will be giving a presentation at the ELINET colloquium during this conference. The conference is highly recommended. Please participate.
During this conference ELINET organizes a two-hour interactive colloquium in which we will introduce a framework digital literacy means for children ages 0-10, the ways digital tools and activities can contribute to the development of children’s literacy skills, attitudes and compile the best practices that can be used at homes and schools and request feedback and good practice examples from the audience members.… Read the rest
(Nederlands/ English) Ik ben spreker op de 4th International Conference ‘Literacy and Contemporary Society’ op 12 mei 19.30 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Mijn focus zal zijn: Digital Literacy and the Role of the Language Teacher. Fabio Nascimbeni, samen met mij chair van de Digital Literacy Working group van ELINET zal daar ook spreken. Registratie is nu open via de Conference website. Zie daar ook het programma. Kom ook.
The 4th International Conference Literacy and Contemporary Society: Transitions in Digital Learning, May 12 and 13 in Cyprus, 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.… Read the rest
HSN-34 kon niet plaatsvinden wegens de COVID-problematiek. Daarom organiseren we dit jaar een digitale conferentie.En dat is meer dan terecht! Is het niet via taal dat mensen betekenissen en dus kennis – een niet onbelangrijk goed in onze kennismaatschappij – construeren? Binnen de HSN Onderwijs Conferentie Nederlands trachten de deelnemers in de vele bijdragen antwoorden te zoeken op de vaak complexe en moeilijke oefening die het onderwijs Nederlands met zich meebrengt, vaak in een multilinguale context.
(Nederlands/English) Ik gaf een Keynote op de The 6th International Conference in Moskou. Reading and Literacy in Education and Culture: Letters in Digits van de The Reading Association of Russia op 19-11-2020. De titel is: Digital Literacy. Rethinking literacy and learning. A big challenge for education and culture.
Nu virtueel via een opgestuurde videopresentatie. Je kan de drie keynotes via Youtube terugzien: (1) Colin Harrison start om -2.40 min., (2) Bill Brozo om -1.48 and (3) Jeroen Clemens om -43 (Vreemde tijdsnotering, maar zo gaat het. Strange timetable, but you’ll find it this way). Mijn Keynote is beschikbaar via Slideshare.… Read the rest
You are invited to submit a proposal to present at the 22nd European Conference on Literacy and the 44th Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland, to be held in Dublin on July 5-7, 2021.
Please visit the Conference homepage for more information. Go here to submit the proposal on or before November 1st, 2020.
The aim of the conference is to encourage discourse about the evolution of diverse literacies in the 21st century and to hear the range of voices in the world of literacy.
The conference theme, “Literacy and Diversity: New Directions” will bring together researchers and educators from all over Europe and further afield to celebrate, discuss, debate and examine matters relating to literacy, literacy teaching and literacy research, across the full span of human learning.… Read the rest