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I’m co-founder and Board member of Elinet. Elinet attended 24th European Conference on Literacy, Literacy. The Door to a Better World, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 6 to 8 July 2026. For more general information about the conference, see this earlier post on the Elinet website.

Elinet organized two symposia, which were well attended and evaluated. I was one of the organisers of the Elinet symposia and contributed also a presentation.

Learning Together Across Borders: International Perspectives on Adult Education
Rethinking Digital Literacies for the AI Era: International Perspectives from ELINET

We would like to share information about the symposia.… Read the rest

Fake nieuws en stijlfiguren: oude en nieuwe geletterdheid

09/02/2023 Comments 0 Comment

Vandaag verscheen een blog van mij in Neerlandistiek.nl Zie hier Ik kopieer het hieronder. English version at the bottom.

Fake nieuws en stijlfiguren: oude en nieuwe geletterdheid

9 februari 2023 door Jeroen Clemens Reageer

Gisteren deelde ik op Mastodon een artikeltje uit de Volkskrant van 8 februari, Merendeels van 20-plussers is voor een dienstplicht voor 18- en 19-jarigen. Boven het artikel staat De Speld Satire. Ik kreeg daarop vooral reacties zoals deze: “heb daar wel eens aan gedacht, ook nu weer nu jeugd negatief in nieuws is:messen, drugsrunners, slechte leerresultaten. verbaas mezelf, pacifist, hiermee maar als ook sociaal-maatschappelijke dienst mogelijk is kan het ook positief uitpakken.

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Kritisch Lezen/ Critical Reading online. Ideeën & Inspiration for Education

18/11/2022 Comments 0 Comment

English follows Dutch Kritisch kunnen lezen is in de digitale informatiewereld urgent. De betrouwbaarheid van informatie ligt onder vuur door de overdaad van ongecontroleerde informatie. Ook de toename van en het geloof in nepnieuws (Trump, oorlog Oekraïne) en de nieuwe technische mogelijkheden (deep fake, gemanipuleerde video’s en foto’s) maakt kunnen beoordelen van informatie urgenter en ingewikkelder. En het vertrouwen in waarheid en feiten ligt onder vuur. Er is sprake van waarheidsverval. Onderwijs moet en kan hier meer aandacht aan besteden.

Ik ben gestart met een lijstje met inspirerende bronnen voor het onderwijs (Nederlands en Engelse). Het wordt steeds aangevuld. Commentaar is welkom

Binnenkort publiceer ik drie nieuwe teksten over kritisch lezen online op het Handboek Didactiek Nederlands.… Read the rest

ELINET’s Research Reports Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills

06/11/2022 Comments 2 comments

Ik ben een van de auteurs, lid van de board van Elinet en co-chair Digital Literacy.
I’m one of the authors, member of the board of Elinet and co-chair Digital Literacy

ELINET Association is delighted to share the last publications it has prepared.

(1) Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills: Good Practices for Early and Primary Years Education. This comprehensive report gives an overview about relevant studies concerning the development of digital skills of children, addressing age groups of 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12 years. You can download it here

(2) Also available is a shorter version of this report with recommendations Using digital tools and experiences to improve comprehension and expression in young children: a review of the empirical evidence.… Read the rest

Invitation two FELA webinars

12/10/2022 Comments 0 Comment

As a member of FELA, Federation of European Literacy Associations and the co-chairs of the Webinars Steering Group I invite you to register for series of free webinars with leading researchers and practitioners in Autumn 2022. The amount of places is limited. Most of the webinars will be recorded registered and available on the FELA website www.literacyeurope.org after the event.

25 October Family Literacy
17 November Children’s Literature goes Digital

FELA organizes again a series of professional thematic online webinars to share the insights and experiences of the FELA community with the FELA community and beyond. Topics are: Family Literacy and Children’s Literature goes Digital. … Read the rest

Seminar Reading and Learning for all Ages

25/10/2021 Comments 0 Comment

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

Presentatie conferentie van CroRa in Zagreb

20/07/2021 Comments 0 Comment

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

FELA Webinars Literacy and Online Education

12/05/2021 Comments 0 Comment

FELA organises a series of free webinars with leading researchers and practitioners exploring interesting topics in the field of literacy. Topic: Literacy and Online Education. From Technology to Critical Thinking. Dates: May 12, 13 & 14 at 17.00 – 19.10 CET. You can download the long version HERE.
I’m member of the Webinar Steering Group of FELA, and one of the organisers of the webinars. I will give a presentation on May 12, 17.45 on Digital Literacy, Rethinking the Curriculum of Language teaching.

WEBINAR REGISTRATION (closed):

12/05/2021 17.00 – 19.15 CET: Topic 1. Conceptual issues: Distance education and the Digital Challenge
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItcuqrpz4uE9b-l2NTXhvBZfDsAskwQ4gl