Media Literacy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Media Literacy

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The project ‘Media Literacy’ has a two-year duration, it is coordinated by school “IIS Margherita Hack”, formerly IIS Baronissi (Italy) and it involves two more partners: Vocational High School of Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Galabovo (Bulgaria) and “Barcelinhos Secondary School” (Portugal).
The project is based on the following considerations and needs: nowadays we observe the increasing impact of media, especially digital, on society’s formative processes.It is important that teachers take into account seriously students interests in media and help them express their interests and viewpoints by using the media.The changes and dynamics in the public life in the 21st century also impose the need of a rapid adaptation of the educational sphere meaning that teachers should constantly improve their competences and adapt to the fast-paced changing educational realities in terms of new innovative teaching methods and approaches. The main objective of the project is the acquirement of media literacy competences (including digital and information literacy competences) of the students understood as the ability to access media, understand and critically evaluate different aspects of the media and media contexts and create communication in a variety of contexts. The project also aims at the exchange of experience and good practices between teachers along with elaboration of suiting activities and approaches in order to promote media literacy among a wider educational community which can be subsequently integrated in teaching practices. By participating in the project the profile of the teaching profession will be strengthened by supporting them to deliver high quality education and adopt new innovative methods and approaches.
The project foresees the realization of:
– n. 3 Joint staff training events, one in each partner Country of the project. Each of these training events will be attended by 2 teachers from each partner school.
– n. 3 Transnational mobility activities of students. Each Mobility activity will be held at the same time as the related training activity for the teachers (5 students from each school will participate in each of the 2 mobility that will be carried out by each school); each student’s mobility flow foresee the presence of n° 1 accompanying teacher to support the students abroad.
During these transnational events for students and teachers different topics will be treated, such as: media, media functions, freedom of expression, media content creation, disinformation, ICT tools, new learning and teaching methods through ICTs. Different innovative methods and approaches will be applied and adopted.
The envisaged activities in the project will take the form of exhange of practices, presentations, demonstrations, role-plays, individual and group tasks, simulations, group discussions, brainstorming, mind maps, etc. Each activity abroad will be supported by eTwinning virtual activities and they will be implemented either before and after the mobility. For the provision of each transnational activity, teaching and learning materials will be prepared by each school in English and then they will be than translated and made available to the broader public on the project web page, on the sites of partner schools as well as on eTwinning. The project also involves the participation of students and teachers who will not take part in the activities abroad, but that will actively participate in the project through virtual exchanges (Skype, eTwinning), preparatory activities of meetings and materials, activities that will take place within the partners during the two years of project implementation. All the participants will be selected according to a jointly pre-defined selection criteria.
The expected results of the project are the following:
-development of essential media literacy competences – ability to search and filter information and content, evaluate and analyse media content, deconstruct media messages (source, audience, text, subtext, persuasion techniques, point of view, etc.), create own media products (presentations, videos, websites, etc.);
-development of critical thinking, problem solving, analysis and evaluation competences, critical understanding skills, etc.;
-teachers exchange of best practices with foreign colleagues, share and discussion of ideas, observation of different teaching approaches;
-establishment of a transnational cooperation, creation and deepening of partnerships.
In the long term it is expected that new innovative teaching methods and approaches will be integrated in the teaching practice long with the development of strategies to promote media literacy while delivering lessons in teacher’s subject areas.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56800 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto d’Istruzione Superiore Baronissi & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária/3 de Barcelinhos
• VOCATIONAL HIGH-SCHOOL IN ENERGY AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING