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SMARTY: Skills in Media And AI Readiness for Today's Youth

2025-1-CY01-KA153-YOU-0002972092025Mobility of youth workersongoing
Countries: CY|AM|PL|BA|EE|FR|EG|HR|LB|PT|LV|UA|NL|ES · Grant: €40,868
Digital skills and competencesMedia literacy and tackling disinformationDigital safety

Objectives

Youth workers should be very well informed on several aspects related to the use of media. This is where we can start the promotion of it to bigger target area and can make it a part of our daily life. This is where we can start the change and can make a change in the attitude of others, where we can create values, we can work on behavior of our society, where we can have more developed society, where media wars will never become a base of hate speach, where our society can tolerance each other despite of their race, religion, believes, culture, life-style, way of thinking, etc. .. The idea of this project is educate youth worker these challenges that comes along with the digital transformation, so that they can create a safe environment for youth and for people in general to live in. Objectives of the project are to develop skills how to: -Make responsible choices and access information by locating and sharing materials and comprehending information andideas. -Analyze messages in a variety of forms by identifying the author, purpose and point of view, and evaluating the quality and credibility of the content -Create content in a variety of forms, making use of language, images, sound, and new digital tools and technologies -Reflect on one’s own conduct and communication behavior by applying social responsibility and ethical principles -Take social action by working individually and collaboratively to share knowledge and solve problems in the family, workplace and community, and by participating as a member of a community. -How to involve local authorities into promoting these education -Create a plan of how to involve more stakeholders, such as local libraries, leaders of community-based organizations; state and federal officials; members of the business community; leaders in media and technology industries, etc. We want to educate and make these skills reachable to everyone in our society, but we need to start from small steps, educating one , then this very person to another, and so it goes like a snowball. We will support youth workers these skills and they will teach to the youth they work with in their turn, how to use media literacy to learn about -new ideas -new cultures -new perspectives -decide what they want to learn -think critically -analyze information that they see, read or hear -analyze information from a variety of viewpoints -identify reliable sources and filter the information -how to differentiate fake news -how to create high quality news -how to involve media hubs for sharing quality content -how to create podcasts and share information -how to design a media content -how to use AI These kind of skills and knowledge can help to create a better society, where everyone can feel safe and won't be harassed, where we can shorten the risk of mental illness, that one can gain during the flow of non-important ,non-quality and fake information.

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