Pandora's Box in Homes and Pockets!
▶Summary
Our target was *To enable participants to gain the ability to create constructive media messages and dialogues, *To create media literacy awareness in participants’ mind and encourage them to thi...
▶Objectives
Our target was *To enable participants to gain the ability to create constructive media messages and dialogues, *To create media literacy awareness in participants’ mind and encourage them to think critically, *To enable them to gain individually,culturally,polically,socially thinking when evaluating messages, *To teach their digital responsibilities and digital rights, *To enable our students to adapt to be a part of European citizenship and to use English in real life. It was important for all of us to see that we were not alone in this problem, and unity in practice could improve us and we could learn how to be in secure in digital world by observing eachother. All these objectives were achieved.Due to the activities,we wanted *to see the good practices and precautions in other European countries, *to get their opinions and to give them opinions, *to do colleborative works with other countries for permanent learning, *to disseminate what we learn.
▶Activities
"Virtual Seminar on Web 2.0 Tools To Be Used in The Project and Basic terms of Media Literacy" was the first activity and the host was Ireland.The very basic glossary and web2 tools (canva,fliphtml5,memrise,answergarden,linoit,padlet) were explained during three days with two sections.Second mobility was in Türkiye and face to face.First day,"What is media literacy?" and puzzle activiy; second day,"advertising film review";third day "social media research"; the the last day "Popular culture discussion" was held. Third mobility was in North Macedonia and "What is disinformation, misinformation and fake news?" was the topic and it was told via presentations and games. The fourth and the last mobility was in Italy. The topic were eSafety, esafetylabel.eu at schools and social media. Drama and puzzle activities were done. At the end of the acivities short trips were organize in close areas.
▶Impact
These activities enabled the participants to gain the ability to create constructive media messages and create media literacy awareness in their minds.By analyzing situations and incidents in real life they were encouraged to think critically.Coming together with people from other countries they were adapted to be a part of European citizenship. Exposure to the target second language participants found the chance to improve themselves in daily communication in English. They used English in real life so it became a stimulus for them to be motivated to learn it.