Towards a school of European citizen involvement: making our students responsible actors in their use of the media. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards a school of European citizen involvement: making our students responsible actors in their use of the media.

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: Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Project context: This European project will focus on the variety of the media landscape, the informational practices of adolescents, and the understanding of different information channels.

Objectives: This project aims to contribute to the fight against the digital divide, so that this proliferation of media in our modern world can build an inclusive and civic information society. The objective of this project is to train informed users, creative actors capable of using media tools wisely. Together, the students will create a TV news and a charter for the right user of tomorrow’s media.

Number and profile of participants
The students involved in the project are all high school students, aged 14 to 17. Overall, 95 students will benefit from this international scheme. For each short mobility, 7 students from each country will leave, accompanied by two of their teachers. In addition, 16 students will have the opportunity to spend 2 months abroad in one of the partner countries.

Description of activities: During the various mobilities, students will be led to reflect on the processing of information in the media through conferences, editorial visits, exhibitions, and questions from information professionals.
The tasks and finals of the mobilities will be: creation of radio programmes on the theme of media literacy in schools, transformation of a paper press article into an online article, creation of a timeline on “the evolution of media from paper to dematerialization”, work on the various existing applications for detecting infox, development of a toolbox accompanied by tutorials in order to be able to offer turnkey tools to their high schools, writing articles on the same current events in different tones, photo exhibition and analysis of the journalistic image, writing the charter of the good user of tomorrow’s media, creation of a television news. For students who are going on a long stay, a bi-monthly journalistic column will be required and published on eTwinning. The common theme of these columns will be: a critical reading of the host country’s media.

Methodology: The aim will be to provide students with authentic situations based on these digital media: holding public blogs, participating in debates through social networks, setting up and developing a European news programme, a radio programme or a common European charter for the good media user.
Students will be able to appreciate the presence of the media and their use and importance and access in schools. They will question the evolution of media over time and project what the media and media user of tomorrow will be like. By discovering the difference in the way information is processed in other countries, they will take a fresh look at the way information is processed in their own country, or more generally in Europe. Thanks to the different productions made during the mobility, the students will become reporters and learn the tricks of the different information professions (journalist, photographer, technician, editor in chief…). Students will also learn to be actively involved in specialist conferences and ask the questions they need to ask in order to produce their final production.
By participating in debates, students will be led to develop a reflection on the need to respect the ideas of others, their private lives, to ensure that they use an appropriate level of language, not to express themselves without a filter but to weigh their words before writing/saying them.
They will become aware of the importance of respecting the right to an image through analytical work on the impact of an iconographic document.
Throughout the project, they will develop transversal skills such as: image analysis, creation of a collection document, documentary research, teamwork. They will also develop skills in editing, information prioritization and communication by presenting their work and communicating with each other within international groups.
They will discover good practices in other schools and they will be able to develop the use of media in their own schools.
The variety of different activities planned throughout the project will allow students to become citizen media producers, approaching the media from different angles. These activities will raise students’ awareness of the importance of critical thinking about information reading, but also of becoming creative actors who can use media tools effectively.

Project Website

https://sites.google.com/lp2i-poitiers.fr/erasmus-medias/homepage?authuser=0

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88007 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE PILOTE INNOVANT INTERNATIONAL & Country: FR

Project Partners

• KOZGAZDASAGI POLITECHNIKUM ALTERNATIV GIMNAZIUM
• Oerestad Gymnasium
• Falkenbergs gymnasieskola