The goal, objectives and results of the project are indicated by the analysis of Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in partner countries: In today's geopolitical situation in all the Baltic States, Slovakia, there are individual initiatives that start talking about MIL in schools, libraries, or youth centers. Critical thinking is also mentioned among the key competencies of the 21st century, but the youth field still lacks innovative distance based learning courses (such as online courses) and other tools responding to the needs of the digital society. These could be easily integrated into the activities of the main MIR formal and non-formal educational agents and help them to educate people to further develop and maintain their competences in information verification, content analysis, debunking misinformation, and critical thinking, and thus help during their self-development. In other words, young people are already living in a mediated reality, but education is often unable to go hand in hand with technological developments and respond to current challenges of digital information world, despite many discussions and goals such as talking about the media and it’s positive or negative effects. At the same time, complexity of media and information world is increasing, and new content creators are even more prone to manipulation and misinformation than traiditional media. That increases need for MIL not among receivers of information, but also content creators, who should be socially responsible and tackle misinformation instead of spreading it. During the project, it is planned to develop and test 9-month long online training courses that will multiply the good experience of Media and Information Literacy Education (MIR) partners. Online courses will have two different accesses that are designed according to the specifics of the following target groups: - For people preparing public information (youth opinion framers). This is for young journalists and other media and content creators, those responsible for youth information points. - Youth leaders, youth workers, social educators and other people working directly with young people who have the opportunity not only to gain new knowledge and skills during online courses, but also to pass it on to others. In the frame of the project, we state that multipliers through online courses will be able to work independently with the group of 15 young people and to pass on topics of critical thinking and informative literacy themselves. The main goals of this project are: 1. Increase the quality of youth work by creating and integrating future-oriented online courses. 2. Improve media and information literacy and critical thinking of potential multipliers of the project with the help of created intellectual product. Tasks are: 1. Create an international online course in Digital MIR lab in Youth work that would be accessible via website and mobile app. 2. To extend the course and ensure the sustainability of the project results, test courses with potential multipliers, and to develop critical thinking and media and information literacy through peer educators. 3. Implement an online course for youth and youth workers. Project activities are compiled to ensure the sustainability of the project results as well as making direct affect to the target groups that are potential to operate in a wider society (content creators, peer educators) or those involved in the education of these people: organizations working with journalist education, youth workers, social educators). Project results and needs: - In the most vulnerable points of the Baltic countries innovative and interactive tool will be created for people working with youngsters. That tool will help to ensure young people's continuing education, support and motivate as well as will be responding to the needs of future youth work. - Critical thinking and media literacy of potential multipliers will be improved, thus enabling the project results to continue. Segmenting the results by planned training activities they would lead to the following aspects of impact: - 42 youth opinion makers will be empowered to work with topics of media literacy and critical thinking. - 67 youth leaders and youth workers will be empowered to educate peers and develop critical thinking and information literacy. - Online course evaluation training for opinion formers and peer educators will give feedback to online course developers and allow them to improve the product in a quality way. - 1005 young people regularly participated in activities organized by peer educators, have critical thinking, understand how media works and are able to identify different manipulations. - 80 potential users of intellectual product – educators of young journalists, people working with non-formal education and other professionals interested in critical thinking will attend online courses and empower other people do the same.
Projekto tikslai: T1. Didinti darbo su jaunimu kokybę sukuriant ir integruojant į ateities visuomenės poreikius orientuotus online kursus. T2. Tobulinti potencialių šio projekto metu sukurto intelektinio produkto multiplikatorių kritinį mąstymą ir žiniasklaidos priemonių naudojimo raštingumą. Uždaviniai: U1. Pasitelkiant tarptautinį bendradarbiavimą sukurti online kursus. U2. Siekiant ištęstuoti kursus bei užtikrinti projekto rezultatų tvarumą išbandyti kursus su potencialiais online kursų multiplikatorius ugdyti kritinį mąstymą ir informacinį raštingumą taikant bendraamžių švietėjų principą. U3. Įgyvendinti online kursus populiarinančią kampaniją jaunimo tarpe. Projekto veiklas sukompletuoti taip, kad užtikrintų projekto metu pasiektų rezultatų tvarumą (MIR udymą kelia kaip viena iš prioritetinių savo veiklų), arba veiktų tas grupes, kurios tiek formuojasi, tiek turi potencialą veikti platesnę visuomenę (jaunieji žurnalistai, jaunimo informavimo taškai, bendraamžių švietėjai) arba su šių žmonių ugdymu dirbantys asmenys: su žurnalistų ugdymų dirbančios organizacijos, jaunimo darbuotojai).
Projekto tikslą, uždavinius ir siektinus rezultatus lėmė Medijų ir informacinio raštingumo (MIR) ugdymo partnerių šalyse analizė: - Baltijos šalyse, Slovakijoje randasi pavienių iniciatyvų, kurios mokyklose, bibliotekose, jaunimo centruose pradeda kalbėti apie MIR. Kritinio mąstymas yra įvardijamas ir tarp pagrindinių 21 amžiaus kompetencijų, tačiau jaunimo sritis vis dar neturėjo į skaitmeninės visuomenės poreikius atsakančių nuotolinio mokymosi kursų, kurie galėtų būti lengvai integruojami į pagrindinių MIR ugdymo agentų veiklą ir talkintų jų ugdomų žmonių tolimesniam tobulėjimui, palaikymui ir motyvacijai didinti bei atsakytų į ateities darbo su jaunimo poreikius. Kitaip tariant, jaunimas jau gyveno medijuotoje tikrovėje, o juos ugdantys technologiniu aspektu dažnai nespėjo žengti koja kojon, nors sau kėlė tokius tikslus kaip kalbėti apie medijas ir jų poveikį. Projektu siekta sukurti ir ištestuoti online kursus, kuriais būtų multiplikuota projekto partnerių sukaupta geroji Medijų ir informacinio raštingumo ugdymo (MIR) patirtis. Kursų tikslinės grupės: - Viešą informaciją rengiantys jauni žmonės. - Jaunimo lyderiai, jaunimo darbuotojai ir visi kiti, kurie kursų metu gaunąmą informaciją gali perduoti kitiems.