Message Is Got Erasmus Project

Project Title

Message Is Got

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

Young people are the ones who are most subjected to new media and at the same time the ones that often lack abilities to independently and critically evaluate what they come across in the flow of media and information.Rendering that young people are the most susceptible to the dangers posed by the media and that we live in an era of media saturation, the inclusion of media and information literacy (MIL) education in school programs to generate knowledge on the role and functions of media and other information services, and to enable youth to process and evaluate the information they receive is a must. Due to the gap in media literacy development among the different States, the diversity of approach, initiatives and policies, the coordinator(Poland) decided to implement the current project with 4 other actors(Italy,Turkey,Latvia,Portugal) who have good practices and are dedicated to solving the problem.
Internet and social media addiction, cyberbullying, fake news problems, adaptation to emerging digital culture, access to reliable information, online personal privacy violations, data security and various forms of digital fraud are among the fields of our project interest.
Totally 50 teachers, who worked voluntarily in their schools for the solution of the problem, have a high level of commitment to the project and 125 students aged 13-15 and from all walks of life will join to 5 LTTs.
Each LTT will enable us to accomplish the project objectives.The 1st LTTAs will benefit students to take full advantage of the opportunities of social media in a safe and ethical way; learn to choose what platform to post something on and the potential consequences of posting; feel part of the society by sharing personal thoughts on media and that feeling of belonging, which is a key for their social inclusion.The 2nd LTTAs will provide participants with tools to spot ‘fake news’ online, understand how they spread, and obtain access to verified information.This LTTAs will contribute to participants ability to be more discerning consumers of information found online, by thinking about the broad spectrum of disinformation and misinformation.As for the 3rd LTT, it aims to highlight each unique media form has a different way of presenting information.Students will understand how media change depending on how the media presenting; enhance their newspotting skills.Thanks to the 4th LTT, it is purposed to analyze the cases of the European schools regarding cyberbullying issues and to make all schools a cyber safe place and carry “the cyber safe place” concept to families as well.As for the last LTT, it will enable students to be judicious and active in content creation; produce info or reproduce disinformation instead of only receiving info passively; hold a sense of responsibility in the production, consumption and sharing of media.
Our project also targets at strengthening the profiles of the teaching professions.In all LTTs there will be 5 workshops for teachers about innovative and contemporary teaching methods(Project based learning,Blended learning,ICT, Gamification, CLIL).These workshops will provide teachers with the opportunity of sharing good practices; strengthening intercultural dialogue and the bond between teachers from different European schools.
These objectives will be achieved through Issue-inquiry Approach, Problem-based Learning,Case Study,Cooperative Learning,Textual and Contextual Analyses,ICT,CLIL.
Under the favor of our LTTAs and methodologies, we target at accomplishing the following outcomes:
Increased level of media and information literacy
5 workshops about innovative teaching methods
7 workshops in LTTs about MIL
1 digital book as a final and common product
5 digital e-booklets
Posters about positive digital footprint and digital citizenship week
Videos about digital citizenship
A podcast about digital rights
A social media literacy strategy plan (each school will adopt it for its own context)
A storyboard about dis/mis/mal-information
Lesson plans on Internet and Social Media Addiction
Bookmarks involving messages about MIL
One-shot films
MIL glossary
Movie posters
Digital citizenship and MIL weeks
Thanks to local activities; eTwinning project; displaying project outputs in diverse media outlets; seminars; eTwinning learning events; our digital book; action plan on MIL;social media literacy strategy plan;Digital citizenship and MIL Weeks to be held every year in partners’ schools, we will reach to larger audience and contribute to their being effective and long- lasting media literate European citizens.It is useful to think of MIL as a continuum rather than an outcome; we all will be more media and information literate.
Briefly, in the long term, in/direct participants of the Project will have the capacity for access to, production and participation in the new media environment, act as active and critical citizens, take advantage of the opportunities in progress and innovation in the information society.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153110 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa nr 6 & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Liceo Classico Federico Frezzi – Beata Angela
• Daugavpils 12.vidusskola
• Agrupamento de Escolas de Benavente
• HACI SULEYMAN CAKIR KIZ ANADOLU LISESI