{"id":19279,"date":"2022-07-07T08:13:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=19279"},"modified":"2022-07-07T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T06:13:19","slug":"social-media-literacy-toolkit-available-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/featured-articles\/social-media-literacy-toolkit-available-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Literacy Toolkit available for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By No\u00e9mie Krack<\/strong>, KU Leuven CITIP, Belgium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Educational Toolkit for the Development of Social Media Literacy<\/a> (or the ETDSML) project has been running since 2018 and is now entering its final months. This Erasmus+ project aims to empower teachers and school leaders to foster social media literacy in their schools. The main goal is to encourage teachers to use social media in the classroom and teach social media literacy to their students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lately, and even more due to the COVID-19 pandemic, social media have acquired a key role in the lives of children and teenagers. Going beyond the private sphere, students now also use social media to conduct research, read the news and get educated about a certain topic. The extensive use of social media considerably blurs the line between the traditional space and time such as being at school or at home and being online or offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media present great opportunities especially for communication, entertainment and education purposes but at the same time come with significant risks. This includes among others non-exclusively privacy concerns, profiling, cyberbullying, hate speech, intellectual property infringements and the rise of disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ETDMSL partners which include mostly teachers representing schools in 3 different EU countries and from different age groups (primary school and high schools) witnessed these threats and opportunities at different levels. This made them aware of how crucial education about social media is for children and teenagers. They launched this project in order to provide concrete tools and resources for fellow teachers to address the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was proposed by Liceul Teoretic de Informatica \u201cGrigore Moisil\u201d<\/a> (Iasi, Romania), in partnership with other schools from Portugal (Agrupamento de Escolas de Freixo<\/a>) and Italy (Instituto Comprensivo 10),<\/a> as well as the Center for Independent Journalism of Romania<\/a> and the KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP law.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The main objectives of the project are the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n