International Elinet Symposium July 2018 Presentation in Symposium Digital Literacy Traditional Literacy and Digital Literacy apart or together?

1. Curriculum reform in the Netherlands.
Traditional Literacy and Digital Literacy
apart or together?
Jeroen Clemens
jeroenclemens.nl

2. Curriculum Development
Language Teaching/
Digital Literacy
Education, Culture & Science
• Teachers
• Schools
• Teacher training institutes
• Universities
• Professional networksorganization for Education & ICT

3. 2015 State Secretary of
Education, Culture and Science
appointed an advisory
commission
to consider the future of
education and to make
recommendations for reform
2015 SLO Nederlands Institute
for Curriculum Development
trendanalysis Dutch Education

4. • more attention functional language
skills
• critical appraisal of written material
• ability to find one’s way around the
vast volume of information
• digital sources gradually supplanting
traditional printed material
• we do not read online material in
the same way (…)
• derive information from visual
sources

7. • 2018- 2019 Bottum up proces:
make curriculum practical
• 9 Development teams:
25 Teachers, 18 Principals en
84 Schools
• Digitale literacy
• Nederlands/ Language teaching
• Digital Literacy
New phase: Involve Teachers and
Schools

9. Digital Literacy

10. Language Skills
Information
Skills/ Digital
Literacy
New literacies/
language skills
Leu, D. J., Gregory McVerry, J., Ian O'Byrne, W., Kiili, C.,
Zawilinski, L., Everett Cacopardo, H., et al. (2011). The
New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension:
Expanding the Literacy and Learning Curriculum. Journal
of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 55(1), 5–14.
http://doi.org/10.1598/JAAL.55.1.1

11. Online non-
lineair
hypertexts/
Multiple texts
/ new skills e.g
sythesis
lineair text on
paper /
traditional
reading skills
Afflerbach, P. A., & Cho, B.
Y. (2010). Determining and
describing reading
strategies: Internet and
traditional forms of
reading.
Literacy includes
digital literacy >
new definition literacy
Language Teachers in
charge

12. Work to be done
• New definition of Literacy,
including digital literacy
• Teaching digital literacy =
language teaching, not a
separate subject
• Add Digital Literacy to new
curriculum Language Teaching
• Collaborate / Merge separate
working groups

13. Let’s work together
?

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contact@jeroenclemens.nl
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