In order to mark Safer Internet Day, we have decided to organize our third online workshop on the topic of media literacy as a part of our project Media Smart Citizens of Future but this time, just for our partner and guest teachers.
The workshop Media Literacy in Teacher Education was conducted by our Croatian partners, Helga Kraljik and Ankica Šarić. Although media literacy is a pretty extensive topic, we managed to get a general overview with special attention being paid to netiquette, differentiating media, fake news and the use of images in the media. Besides learning about media literacy, the goal of the workshop was to show that media literacy can be taught throughout different subjects. Because of the trending topic, teachers have taken an active role discussing the influence of media and analysing fake news as well as deconstructing images from different types of media like advertisements, memes, social media posts and stories where we ourselves become creators of the news.
Croatian language teachers, Sanja Jelaković Kühner, Željka Brezni, Helga Kraljik and Ankica Šarić, have also shared their example of good practice @visejezicnostussbjj project the goal of which is to promote multilingualism as well as innovative teaching, digital and transversal skills through various national and international activities. This is also the project where students learn about media literacy.
All in all, this was an interesting workshop where teachers took the role usually dedicated to students.
