Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, and Social Media
This course offers teachers engaging activities and learning materials to increase the digital literacy of their students in regards to mental health, cyberbullying, data privacy and spotting fake news.
Digital citizenship, footprint, fake news dictionary, bots, digital detox, personal boundaries, mental health and well-being in the digital world.
Description
DAY 1: WHO IS HERE AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM EACH OTHER?
- Introductory meeting: ice-breakers, practical arrangements, timetable, expectations and contributions
International exchange: key principles of the different educational school systems and peer exchange of best practices
DAY 2 - DAY 4: TRAINING TOPICS
- Data privacy, passwords & digital vulnerability
- Fake news, critical thinking & empathy to prevent cyberbullying
- Managing trolling, ghosting, gossip, hate speech & FOMO
- Digital citizenship: ethics, copyright, reporting abuse
- Gaming, social media, commercial influence & mental health
- Building a safety culture in schools & homes
- Teaching self-confidence, boundaries & courage to speak up online
- Cultivating safety culture in schools and with parents
- Mental health
- Teaching self-confidence skills in a digital world: saying NO, personal boundaries, courage for upstanding when spotting cyberbullying
DAY 5: STUDY VISIT
- Getting to observe the practice
- Evaluation
- Certificates of attendance
Ƶing objectives
- becoming a digitally savvy and responsible internet user
- holistic, problem and project-based learning activities on digital literacy
- rules of conduct and work with parents in challenging situations regarding the misuse of the internet and social media with students
- understanding the digital culture of students - latest news and trends
Methodology & assessment
- demonstration of digital literacy cases
- peer learning, collaboration, group work, digital literacy project examples
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
- online resources: sites and applications that can be used in the classroom
online platform with sessions’ summaries, and descriptions of the activities used - recommended literature for further study
- shared activities from the participants
- school learning materials
- action plan from the participants
Certification details
Certificate of attendance
Ƶing Agreement
Europass
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:400Euro
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Course package content:
Course fee:
€400 – confirmed at least 16 weeks in advance
€450 – confirmed 8 to 15 weeks in advance
€490 – confirmed less than 8 weeks in advance
Course fee includes:
- 5 days of workshop (6 pedagogical hours per day): training on the topic, peer exchange and networking, one study visit,
- training materials,
- coffee breaks,
- one afternoon cultural excursion,
organisation and administrative costs.
Accommodation discount available for selected hotels (optional).
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Additional information:Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
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Cancellation & changes:
FREE pre-registration - important to express the interest for us to know which courses can get confirmed.
In case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure) we accept the change of the participant OR the date.
If force majeure happens during the course, we offer support when providing the proof for absence.
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Additional information:The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherPedagogical AdviserSchool Psychologist
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Ƶing time:25 hours or more
Upcoming sessions
Past sessions
Provider
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