Educators

Educators have long been associated with the idea of  the one that teaches, and this idea has a top down conception. However, today’s conception of what is an educator has multiple contexts and is mostly, or should and need to be, a collaborative work. Lifelong learning plays a fundamental role and contributes to this need to learn throughout life and taking in consideration Agenda 2030 Goals. Read more.

Media Literacy Key concepts

Media literacy is the ability to identify different types of media and understand the messages they’re sending. According to the European Union, it involves the capacity of accessing, critically understanding and engaging with the different media available. Read more.

Website
Language: English
Civic I.D.E.A: Youth Media Literacy Toolkit

This website provides tools for educators to promote digital media literacy with young people.

Book
Language: Croatian
Djeca medija/Children of Media

Handbook with workshops on topics about new media challenges.

Academic Article
Language: English
Youth and Digital Citizenship+ (Plus): Understanding Skills for a Digital World

Explores the concept of digital citizenship, providing an overview of the current dialogue surrounding the term, with a focus on several key questions. The key questions are all related to digital citizenship and youth.

Website
Language: French, English
CLEMI – LE CENTRE POUR L’ÉDUCATION AUX MEDIAS ET À L’INFORMATION

Website of the entity responsible for Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the French education system.It provides resources for teachers.

Opinion Piece
Language: English
The Future of Fake News

Article about the way media literacy competences contribute to fighting fake news.

Booklet
Language: English, Spanish, Greek
A Parent’s Guide to Media Literacy

A parent’s guide to assist families in starting media literacy conversations at home.

Other
Language: Portuguese, English
Referencial de Educação para os Media para a Educação Pré-escolar, o Ensino Básico e o Ensino Secundário.

Portuguese reference guide for media education in the context of formal education.

Book
Language: English
Fake News vs Media Studies: Travels in a False Binary.

Julian McDougall's book that
contains interviews with journalists, news commentators and media educators to represent a breadth of perspectives within the field.

Website
Language: English, Spanish
Ana Perez-Escoda website

Ana Perez-Escoda's website that contains works, articles and other materials developed by the researcher.

Website
Language: English
Media & Learning Online

Website about media literacy.

Online Civic Engagement

UNICEF defines civic engagement as “individual or collective actions in which people participate to improve the well-being of communities or society in general”. It is a fundamental process to democracy, through which people take action, in a collective manner, to address issues of public concern. Read more.

Other
Language: English
The EAVI Guide to Privacy and Tracking

Guide that shows how online tracking works and offers a few tweaks and recommendations for increasing privacy.

Inreractive resource
Language: English
Working with online stakeholders

Activity about reflecting on the meaning of feeling “safe” online.

Booklet
Language: English
The Educator’s Guide to Social Media

A framework for thinking about how to best use social media.

Opinion Piece
Language: English
Teaching Why Facts Still Matter

Article about the importance of teaching students to seek the truth.

Opinion Piece
Language: English
An Academic Use for Social Media

Article about the importance of using social media to help students improve their communication and writing skills.

Opinion Piece
Language: English
Find Your Digital Space

Article about digital space, digital footprint, online privacy, etc

Booklet
Language: English, Armenian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Romanian, Spanish
Web we want manual for educators

Booklet about online behaviours, online safety, and other, for educators.

Other
Language: English
Digital Civics Toolkit

Collection of resources for educators to support youth to explore, recognize, and take seriously the civic potentials of digital life.

Resilience to disinformation and fake news

Today, citizens are highly exposed to large scale disinformation, including false and misleading information, assuming different expressions and conceptualization. As the European Commission states, it is one of Europe’s major challenges. Read more.

Guidelines
Language: English
Media and Education Hate Speech Workbook

This is a training module for teachers on hate speech. It's one of the outputs of “BRICkS - Building Respect on the Internet by Combating Hate Speech” project.

Tutorial
Language: English
The SELMA Toolkit

The SELMA Toolkit offers over 100 easy-to-access and customizable resources for teachers and other professionals working with children and young people.

Tutorial
Language: English, Spanish, French
Educational toolkit for challenging hate speech and constructing under-narrative

Concise guide from project REACT that covers the organization of workshops for young people in both formal and informal settings. Explores hate speech, the scale of the problem, its impact, and how young people can actively take a stand and contribute to challenging it through counter-narratives.

Academic Article
Language: English
Media literacy versus fake news: fact checking and verification in the era of fake news and post-truths

Research findings to support the case for media literacy as an aid to journalists and journalism educators through the fostering of resilient media engagement by young citizens.

Other
Language: Spanish
Fake news y familia

Educational resource for parents with the aim of opening the dialogue in the family regarding fake news or false news.

Book
Language: English, Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Dutch, French, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malaysian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tajik, Tetum, Thai, Vietnamese
Journalism, ‘Fake News’ and Disinformation: A Handbook for Journalism Education and Training

This handbook is designed to give journalism educators and trainers, along with students of journalism, a framework and lessons to help navigate the issues associated with ‘fake news’.

Booklet
Language: English
A short guide to the history of ’fake news’ and disinformation

Guide that provides a historical approach to the phenomenon of fake news.

Interactive resource
Language: English
Beyond The Headlines – The Online News Verification Game

Online news verification game.

Opinion piece
Language: English
Turning Your Students Into Web Detectives

Article about strategies and other resources that can help students separate truth from fiction online.

Video
Language: English
3 Online Tools to Sniff Out Fake News

Video about tools provided by social media and other website to help people spot fake news.

Other
Language: English, Spanish
Desinformación y fact-checking en tiempos de COVID-19: Regístrese ahora para el nuevo curso gratuito en línea del Centro Knight

MOOC prepared for journalists and communicators produced under the project “#CoronavirusFacts, Addressing the ‘Disinfodemic’ on COVID-19,” implemented by UNESCO and funded by the European Union.

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