The "(Un)safely on the Net" project reflects the current needs of the society and employers. Its goal is to foster, through innovative intellectual outcomes, awareness about topics such as critical thinking, media literacy and safe use of the Internet, and to foster the development of competences in these areas, primarily among young people and youth workers. The project will involve partners and experts from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Two intellectual outputs will be created during the implementation of the project and several educational and multiplication events will be realized. Created Intellectual Outputs: 1. Publication - A Guide to Developing Critical Thinking, Media Literacy and How to Work Safely Online. The handbook will also contain information on how to work with these topics using non-formal learning methods and techniques. 2. Interactive Web Application - An Interactive Portal for the Development of Critical Thinking and Media Literacy, which, in addition to bringing a consise information on this topic, will serve to develop critical thinking, support argumentation and search for relevant resources and information on solved themes. It will also help young people to engage in different themes and to monitor the information and resources people watch and how they evaluate them. The dissemination of results, verification of outcomes in practice and gathering of stimuli will be carried out by the multiplication and educational activities among young people, youth workers and teachers who work with these topics. During the project we will run 15 workshops involving at least 350 participants, an international two-phase training for 20 participants and two final conferences - one in Slovakia and one in the Czech Republic. The conferences will focus on presenting project outputs and results, informing about the web application features, establishing partnerships, and working with participants from different sectors who are dedicated to and supporting youth work. The concept of the project, designed in this way, is to ensure the production of quality outputs, verified in practice and ready for their use and implementation even after the end of the project.
Since the time of writing, the project "(Un)safe in the Net" we reflecting the needs of society and employers. Its goals was to promote the competence in topics such as critical thinking, media literacy, safe use of the Internet and digital citizenship, primary among youth workers, school staff and subsequently young people through innovative intellectual outputs. The project involved partners and experts from Slovakia and the Czech Republic. During the project implementation, were produced two key intellectual outputs, and other supporting materials. And educational and multiplier online and offline events were realised. Produced intellectual outputs: 1. Publication - (Un)Safe in the Net - A manual for the development of critical thinking in the online environment. The publication, which consists of two parts. The theoretical part contains basic and clearly elaborated information on the topics of critical thinking, media literacy, safe online and digital citizenship. And a practical part with introductory information to non-formal education and 37 detailed activities with methodological recommendations on the above topics. The publication is available electronically in Slovak, Czech and English languages. 2. Interactive web application - a web application that guides participants in an interactive and interesting way in exploring the topics of media literacy and critical thinking and working with information. The application includes a lecturer interface where we can define the learning cycle and the hypothesis/topic. The lecturer/teacher can monitor the participants' work and adapt further learning on the topic accordingly. And the participant interface, familiarizes its users in an interactive way about what critical thinking is and how to work with information. Public topics (Climate Change) or new topics assigned by the trainer are available for participants. In this way, groups can address and respond to different topics, learn how to work with information and develop critical thinking skills. The app is available in Slovak, Czech and English language at https://kurz.myslim.eu Also other supporting materials have been produced: - a website with information about the project and other resources, available at www.myslim.eu, - a set of motivational pictures and a memory game. A number of events have been realized to spread awareness of the themes and to network actors interested and involved in the themes. Two conferences for approximately 87 participants from Slovakia and Czech republic. One conference in Slovakia, one in the Czech Republic. Online training for 20 participants, who are able to multiply these topics in practice. And 16 workshops for approximately 300 participants who had the opportunity to experience non-formal learning and activities on the project topics. The created intellectual outputs are freely available in electronic version in Slovak, Czech and English languages. These outputs reflect the needs of today's time and employers. They are methodologically processed and prepared and they can be used in out-of-school and school environments. A short information video about the project is available at: https://youtu.be/omLSDlFiDDY