Digital media has become integral part of everyday life. Besides the many advantages and opportunities, the digital world carries risks and threats. In the age of fake news, disinformation and algorithms, it is essential to understand the operating principles and mechanisms of the internet and media. The goal of this project is to develop a media and information literacy training curriculum for adults and especially for parents. The curriculum will define the requisite knowledge and competences to reach digital maturity. Adults should learn how to use the digital world in a self-determined and self dependent way. There is already a lot of training material and practical exercises available. Within the project existing material from different sources will be collected, reviewed and merged into concrete knowledge building blocks. Furthermore, the curriculum will be built on the European Digital Competence Framework (DigCompEdu, DigComp 2.0). The goal is, to develop a training plan which gives a guideline for educational institutions when they define their trainings and further educations. Offering trainings based on the curriculum will assure a comparable training across europe. Refering own training offers to the curriculum will be a quality feature. The curriculum will be built in modules that will cover all the important topics related to digitalisation by focussing on various subjects, including but not limited to: - Basic knowledge about the internet, the underlying business models and the opportunities and risks of the digital world - Basic technical knowledge about handling and administration of technical devices - Conscientious interaction with the internet, social media channels and own data - Awareness about privacy and data protection, including conscientious interaction with the internet and social media channels - Understanding the concept and impact of echo chambers and algorithms as well as how fake news and opinion making mechanisms are working The partners planning to introduce the curriculum to more and more training providers during and the project and beyond. Long-time goal is to establish the curriculum as european reference framework when it comes to media and information literacy for adults and parents. Having such reference framework will ensure a comparable quality across Europe. The results of the projects will be published on a website which give every interested organisation and institution the chance to contribute by providiung feedback and sharing ideas. The project consortium consits of 3 partners, with a strong experience in executing workshops and trainings for adults. The partners of the project in a nutshell: #1 Medienkompetenz Team e.V., Germany (MKT) The Medienkompetenz Team e.V. is a non-profit association located in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their goal is to raise the level of media literacy in general public - especially in terms of important main topics like privacy, data protection and promotion of all required competences of the digitalization. Today, MKT provides trainings, presentations and workshops for children and young people, students, teachers, parents and all interested persons. We cover all topics related to digitalisation and digital transformation. MKT is working closely together with the municipality child and youth welfare office in Karlsruhe - which is also a member of our association. #2 Akademie für Politische Bildung und demokratiefördernden Maßnahmen (PBA), Austria The Akademie für Politische Bildung und demokratiefördernden Maßnahmen is a small non-profit association with civic education, equal opportunities for unemployed and employed persons of all ages, migrants and especially for women on the labor market and learning opportunities. Through a variety of educational opportunities for schools, businesses and public institutions, the PBA supports the personal and academic development of children, adults and disadvantaged people. The aim of their activities is to promote civic education through targeted educational offers, international understanding and cooperation as well as through written, visual and auditory documentation and to support disadvantaged groups to participate in society. #3 The Centre for the Innovation and Development of Education and Technology, (CIDET), Spain CIDET is a training and consultancy company focused on adult learning and technology-enhanced education. CIDET is set in the city of Castellón (Spain) but works in cooperation with partners throughout the whole country and abroad. As a training, consultancy and ICT experts, the main strengths of CIDET are the expertise and knowledge acquired when developing and creating learning environments, courses, training activities and materials. In CIDET we always pursue continuous improvement (through evaluation and quality processes), innovation (research on pedagogy, but also ICT tools) and social impact (dissemination, change, exploitation).
The aim was to develop a curriculum that can serve as a guideline when defining one's own training and further education. The target group here was teachers in adult and vocational education but also people who work with young people, young adults or adults in general as well as committed people from associations or other institutions who want to develop a workshop or training on certain topics. The aim was to define and elaborate all important topics of media and information literacy as well as a structured collection of teaching materials and exercises for the respective contents. The syllabus and the accompanying teaching materials serve to help and support teachers who are not yet very familiar with the individual topics themselves. The curriculum has a modular structure, so that it is also possible to cut out only individual parts of a specific field of knowledge, e.g. to conduct a single workshop on a relevant topic. CUMILA thus also serves as a supplement to existing training and further education and opens up possibilities for people, e.g. from youth work, to plan and conduct individual workshops.
CUMILA stands for "Curriculum guide of media and information literacy for adults". The aim of CUMILA was to develop a curriculum for teaching media and information literacy to adults. The initial question here was: "What does an adult need to know today to be equipped with a minimum level of media literacy so that they can move in the digital world in a self-determined and self-responsible manner?" The curriculum defines the knowledge and competencies required to achieve a minimum level of digital literacy. Digital media have become an integral part of daily life. Besides the many advantages and opportunities, the digital world also poses risks and threats. Digitalisation skills and media literacy are becoming increasingly important. Basic digital skills are now relevant in every profession. They are also of central importance for the preservation of democratic social structures. In the age of fake news, disinformation and algorithms, it is thus essential to understand the functional principles and mechanisms of the internet and digital media.
Digital media has become integral part of everyday life. Besides the many advantages and opportunities, the digital world carries risks and threats. In the age of fake news, disinformation and algorithms, it is essential to understand the operating principles and mechanisms of the internet and media. The goal of this project is to develop a media and information literacy training curriculum for adults and especially for parents. The curriculum will define the requisite knowledge and competences to reach digital maturity. Adults should learn how to use the digital world in a self-determined and self dependent way. There is already a lot of training material and practical exercises available. Within the project existing material from different sources will be collected, reviewed and merged into concrete knowledge building blocks. Furthermore, the curriculum will be built on the European Digital Competence Framework (DigCompEdu, DigComp 2.0). The goal is, to develop a training plan which gives a guideline for educational institutions when they define their trainings and further educations. Offering trainings based on the curriculum will assure a comparable training across europe. Refering own training offers to the curriculum will be a quality feature. The curriculum will be built in modules that will cover all the important topics related to digitalisation by focussing on various subjects, including but not limited to: - Basic knowledge about the internet, the underlying business models and the opportunities and risks of the digital world - Basic technical knowledge about handling and administration of technical devices - Conscientious interaction with the internet, social media channels and own data - Awareness about privacy and data protection, including conscientious interaction with the internet and social media channels - Understanding the concept and impact of echo chambers and algorithms as well as how fake news and opinion making mechanisms are working The partners planning to introduce the curriculum to more and more training providers during and the project and beyond. Long-time goal is to establish the curriculum as european reference framework when it comes to media and information literacy for adults and parents. Having such reference framework will ensure a comparable quality across Europe. The results of the projects will be published on a website which give every interested organisation and institution the chance to contribute by providiung feedback and sharing ideas. The project consortium consits of 3 partners, with a strong experience in executing workshops and trainings for adults. The partners of the project in a nutshell: #1 Medienkompetenz Team e.V., Germany (MKT) The Medienkompetenz Team e.V. is a non-profit association located in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their goal is to raise the level of media literacy in general public - especially in terms of important main topics like privacy, data protection and promotion of all required competences of the digitalization. Today, MKT provides trainings, presentations and workshops for children and young people, students, teachers, parents and all interested persons. We cover all topics related to digitalisation and digital transformation. MKT is working closely together with the municipality child and youth welfare office in Karlsruhe - which is also a member of our association. #2 Akademie für Politische Bildung und demokratiefördernden Maßnahmen (PBA), Austria The Akademie für Politische Bildung und demokratiefördernden Maßnahmen is a small non-profit association with civic education, equal opportunities for unemployed and employed persons of all ages, migrants and especially for women on the labor market and learning opportunities. Through a variety of educational opportunities for schools, businesses and public institutions, the PBA supports the personal and academic development of children, adults and disadvantaged people. The aim of their activities is to promote civic education through targeted educational offers, international understanding and cooperation as well as through written, visual and auditory documentation and to support disadvantaged groups to participate in society. #3 The Centre for the Innovation and Development of Education and Technology, (CIDET), Spain CIDET is a training and consultancy company focused on adult learning and technology-enhanced education. CIDET is set in the city of Castellón (Spain) but works in cooperation with partners throughout the whole country and abroad. As a training, consultancy and ICT experts, the main strengths of CIDET are the expertise and knowledge acquired when developing and creating learning environments, courses, training activities and materials. In CIDET we always pursue continuous improvement (through evaluation and quality processes), innovation (research on pedagogy, but also ICT tools) and social impact (dissemination, change, exploitation).