Media Smart Citizens of the Future
There is always a first time...
The participant teachers met online to get a first glimpse of each other and to plan, draft and design the first activities of the project. They are all excited with the project and looking forward to working together for a common purpose: to promote media literacy as a way of creating well-informed and aware citizens in a world where one has to be careful with the information he/she gets through the media.
Our 1st Online Project Workshop on Fake News Was Actualized
Without slowing down, we have got our virtual project activities started although we cannot realize our physical mobilities.
Our first online project workshop was on December 10 realized under the coordinatorship of Lithuania. Jovita ŽilinskienÄ— and her American English teaching assistant Megan Rohn hosted for the online meeting on fake news. As is known, we live in the post-truth era, where the phenomenon “fake news” shows up, and most people are victims of fake news and misinformation, which smears their visions of the world. That is why it is of utmost significance to us to learn to tackle with fake news. In line with this purpose, during the online event, pupils, who were put into 5 different mixed country groups, critically analysed the pieces of news sources presented to them and tried to distinguish between true and fake news under the guidance of project teachers. Moreover, they brainstormed about the most important key words to spot fake news via Mentimeter (WEB2.0 tools). In the final part, a pupil from each country told about their country’s biggest fake news.
In a nutshell, by virtue of this online workshop, not only did pupils take the first step to develop resilience to fake news but also they had a chance to bolster their communicative, intercultural, social, critical thinking and digital competences. You can watch the workshop on the following link:
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Keep following us … We will be back soon with other media literacy improving activities.
The Show Must Go On...
New year, new workshop. While we wait for better days, we go on with our transnational workshops. The latest was held online last Thursday, January 14, under the tile "We Don't Need No Ads...Or Do We?". A group of ca. 25 enthusiastic students of the five participating countries reflected on the influence of ads in their lives and how it can be avoided, thus becoming more aware citizens and using their critical thinking and creativity in real life context. The ads analysed allowed them to later express their creativiy by creating a slogan and an ad. A group of several teachers supervised them and helped them by leading the way!!!
You can watch the workshop on the following link:
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"We Don't Need No Ads..." Workshop
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Antoher month, another workshop...
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Media Smart Citizens of Future Mark Safer Internet Day
In order to mark Safer Internet Day, we have decided to organize our third online workshop on the topic of media literacy as a part of our project Media Smart Citizens of Future but this time, just for our partner and guest teachers.
The workshop Media Literacy in Teacher Education was conducted by our Croatian partners, Helga Kraljik and Ankica Šarić. Although media literacy is a pretty extensive topic, we managed to get a general overview with special attention being paid to netiquette, differentiating media, fake news and the use of images in the media. Besides learning about media literacy, the goal of the workshop was to show that media literacy can be taught throughout different subjects. Because of the trending topic, teachers have taken an active role discussing the influence of media and analysing fake news as well as deconstructing images from different types of media like advertisements, memes, social media posts and stories where we ourselves become creators of the news.
Croatian language teachers, Sanja Jelaković Kühner, Željka Brezni, Helga Kraljik and Ankica Šarić, have also shared their example of good practice @visejezicnostussbjj project the goal of which is to promote multilingualism as well as innovative teaching, digital and transversal skills through various national and international activities. This is also the project where students learn about media literacy.
All in all, this was an interesting workshop where teachers took the role usually dedicated to students.
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Marking Safer Internet Day - YouTube
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