Media Literacy-See the world through the eyes of reality Erasmus Project

Project Title

Media Literacy-See the world through the eyes of reality

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

We need to strengthen children’s and students’ critical thinking and media literacy, so they can judge and overcome the ever-present threats of fake news, cyber bullying, radicalisation, cybersecurity threats and fraud (COM2018)

The pace of change will be so rapid that students will learn ‘in the moment using new technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality. The ability to gain new knowledge will be more valuable than the knowledge itself. In such new world, the qualifications and knowledge will be relevant, but not sufficiently. The critical thinking, the media literacy and the digital literacy will not be advantages but rather disadvantages for those do not having them.

Children in our schools are mass consumers of media.On average, each of them spends 1,500 hours a year watching television. Roughly 98% of our students have Internet access in their homes, and most of them use it daily.According to the latest data, Face book has 1.45 billion users each day, 5 billion videos are uploaded daily on You tube , 800 million are active on Instagram every day. But there is one problem.There are lost in the world of the media because they do not know how to perceive and use them in the right way. Rather, humankind needs to be taught how to process information that is stored through technology. Education needs to be geared toward the handling of data rather than the accumulation of data.

This problem with low media literacy knowledge is related to our students from all partner countries according to Media literacy index for 2018 where all partners country have low media literacy index (especially Romania 38%,Turkey 16% an Macedonia 10%) but also the other partners countries too.

Our project ”See the world through the eyes of reality ” is related to media literacy and its goal is to “awake” students, parents and teachers and bring them back to reality with the help of critical thinking and the proper use of the media through social inclusion.

• Developing critical thinking and media literacy by 80% after completion of the project
• To return students to real social life. Develop awareness of the importance of physical activity and a healthy lifestyle that are neglected due to Internet addiction for 80%
• Reduction the damage from computer games for 80%
• Reduction abuse of personal data and profiles on social networks for 80%
• To create increased productivity and interest in educational programs for all school subjects in order to reduce the number of students leaving school.
• Develop awareness and skills among parents to establish a proper relationship between their children and the media.
• Strengthening the educational capacities and skills of media literacy and professional development in a European context

Regarding all the planned activities, in order to make the instruction to address the needs of this century( European digital age), we will focus primarily on creativity and will transfer other soft skills through various activities, methods and tasks.
Workshops for creating films and preparing films will awaken the creativity of the student.Films will be related to various topics such as cultural heritage, inclusion, empathy, stereotypes and prejudices, school violence. Students will be inclusive, they will develop their own moral values, will become aware of the world around them, Increase human dignity, democracy, equality.
Workshops provided during mobility, such as coding, personal data protection, protection against Internet violence, I am a journalist, students will develop skills for proper use of the Internet, identifying false news, spreading hate speech, the disadvantages of Internet addiction, the development of educational games, etc. Workshops with parents will awaken their awareness and teach them how to deal with their children when it comes to the media and their use. These activities we will develop awareness and skills among parents to establish a proper relationship between their children and the media.
The sports activities envisaged in the project will bring the students together, remove them from the virtual world and socialize them.
With activities for teachers in this project we will strength the educational capacities and skills of media literacy and professional development

We will encourage all of our students and at the age of 12- 15 to join the project directly in mobilities we will involved 120 students and approximately 100 teachers excluding teachers that travel ,1200 students indirectly, 250 parents

Methodology: Presentations, workshops, round tables, studies, monitoring and evaluating activities,project-based learning, teamwork,workshops for parents.

Long terms: “Media Literacy Week”, International school media literacy program.
The impact will be expanded at national and European level in the future as the skills that our students and project participants will acquire in the project will be reflected in their social life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 26600 Eur

Project Coordinator

CPI SANTA LUCÍA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa w Siedlcu Duzym
• Scoala Gimnaziala Elena Farago
• OOU “Kuzman Josifoski-Pitu”
• IC La Pira Gentiluomo
• EMIRLI ORTAOKULU