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All Aboard for DigiTown: A Learning Path for 9 -12 Year Olds to Become Smart Digital Citizens Year of publication: 2020 Author: Janice Richardson | Veronica Samara Corporate author: Webwise “All Aboard for DigiTown!”is a fun, entertaining learning journey for young digital citizens through 10 digital themes centred on ‘Being online’, ‘Well-being online’ and ‘Rights online’. These are based on the Council of Europe’s successful Digital Citizenship Education model. As children progress through the stories, exercises and individual and group activities in the book, they will learn about using digital technology wisely, behaving respectfully and responsibly, and cooperating meaningfully online and offline. They end their journey with a backpack of badges to remind them of what being a digital citizen really means. A final section provides solutions, and offers teachers and parents a detailed overview of the competences their children are developing in order to better guide them on their path towards digital citizenship.The book can be used both in class, at home and in distance learning. It is adapted to the learning needs of children in the final years of elementary school (age around 9-12 years). 
YouthLearn: Media Literacy Toolbox Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Education Development Center (EDC) YouthLearn’s Media Literacy Toolbox includes activities, handouts, and curricular resources to support media literacy education in a variety of settings—classroom or afterschool program, low-tech or high-tech, children or teens. 
Snapshot 2019: The State of Media Literacy Education in the U.S. Year of publication: 2019 Author: Sherri Hope Culver | Theresa Redmond Corporate author: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) Since 2015, NAMLE’s membership has grown from about 300 members to over 5,000 members, signifying a remarkable expansion of interest in and demand for media literacy education. Despite general awareness of the persuasive nature and pervasive inclusion of media in our lives, media literacy education has not been formerly prioritized in U.S. education efforts. Yet, several recent trends indicating progress and development are important to mention:– Growth– Inclusion in Standards– Legislative Involvement– AwarenessDespite broad agreement about the need to ensure that people of all ages are equipped to understand and negotiate the influence of media in their lives, the United States does not devote any significant government effort, nor funding, for media literacy education research, training, or implementation. While funding initiatives have benefits and drawbacks, decades of grassroots advocacy has not been enough to establish media literacy education as a foundational or core dimension of schooling.This SNAPSHOT is a step towards that goal. 
Methodology: Using Digital Media for Youth Engagement and Active Citizenship Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Yep4Europe Consortium The training methodology “Find-Tell-Act” is the main output of the Youth e-Perspectives on Migration project. The project aimed at empowering young people to address sensitive contemporary societal issues (in our case migration and the refugee crisis) and at the same time to improve their digital and media skills. In this way, digital and technical skills developed in parallel with social values like active citizenship.For this purpose, we developed and implemented this methodology for a non-formal training course based on blended learning. The main part of the methodology is implemented as face-to-face activities. It includes four interrelated digital media modules (or, as we call them, workshops):Digital JournalismDigital PhotographyDigital StorytellingOnline Platforms,in which refugee crisis was our main theme. The methodology can be applied to any other “hot” societal topic that young people are faced with.Learn more about the project on the project website. 
A Study on Information Literacy in Social Media Age: Focusing on Redefinition, Contents and Media of Information Literacy Year of publication: 2013 Author: Euikyung Oh Corporate author: Korean Society for Library and Information Science This study redefines information literacy (IL) and recommends its contents and media (platforms). Redefinition of IL was based on concepts such as ‘Information Literacy 2.0’, ‘Social Context’, ‘Metaliteracy’, ‘Transliteracy’, ‘Social Media Literacy’ and related researches. ‘Social Relationship’, ‘Media Convergence’, ‘Critical and Evaluative Insight on Information’ was extracted by major contents of new IL. To determine program methods, mass media’s ‘ubiquity’ was applied to the study. Some social statistics reports proved that ubiquity of social media is quite high. Finally, proposed empirical study of IL using social media by follow-up study.) 
Media-Wise: A Smart Guide for Youths Year of publication: 2015 Corporate author: Media Literacy Council (MLC) Even as a digital native, you might need some help figuring out the safest and kindest route through the digital world - this guide will give you the tips and advice you need to make that journey. 
A Parent’s Guide to Instagram Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Media Literacy Council (MLC) This parent’s guide to Instagram will help parents to update their digital literacy skills and get a better understanding of how social media platforms and their security features work. 
A Media Literacy Framework for Australia Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: Australian Media Literacy Alliance (AMLA) AMLA define media literacy as the ability to critically engage with media in all aspects of life.Media literacy complements Digital Literacy and Digital Safety – and all three are required to thrive in a digital world. Digital literacy focuses on the skills and knowledge required to access and use digital technologies. Digital Safety focuses on issues like online hate and abuse, bullying, the protection of personal information and online scams.Media Literacy encourages people to ask critical questions about the media and media technologies using a set of six key concepts. For any example of media (an advertisement, a news story, a film or television program, a YouTube video, video game or a social media post), we can ask the following questions:Institutions: who made this media and why did they make it?Audiences: who was this media made for and how are they likely to respond to it?Representations: how are people, places or ideas portrayed in this media, and what are the impacts of this?Technologies: what technology was used to produce, access and circulate this media? Does the technology gather personal data from users?Languages: how does this media communicate using image, sounds and written text?Relationships: what kind of relationships are being developed through the distribution and use of this media?These questions will have very different answers and follow-on questions depending on the media example, but the process of asking and answering these questions leads to critical understandings, and forms the basis for more successful media experiences. These questions can be asked during the process of consuming, sharing or creating media. They can be integrated as part of any Digital Literacy and Digital Safety learning program. 
United Against Racism Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: UNESCO We all can do something against racism. You too. Join UNESCO and leading personalities from all over the world in denouncing mounting racial discrimination.This video features messages by the following prominent women and men from the worlds of cinema, the media, music, sport and science alongside UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Freida Pinto, Naomi Campbell, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Jean-Michel Jarre, UNESCO Artist for Peace Marcus Miller, Jorge Ramos, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Yalitza Aparicio, Rossy de Palma, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Sumaya bint Al Hassan, Bobi Wine, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Herbie Hancock, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Forest Whitaker, UNESCO Champion for Girls’ and Women’s Education Nadia Nadim, Amadou Gallo Fall, Ada Hegerberg and UNESCO Artist for Peace Gilberto Gil.UNESCO has been on the forefront of the fight against racism since its creation in 1945. In 1978, it adopted the Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice which reaffirms that “All human beings belong to a single species and are descended from a common stock. They are born equal in dignity and rights and all an integral part of humanity.”Learn more: Fight against Racism and Discrimination 
2018 International Symposium on Media and Information Literacy Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: Korean National Commission for UNESCO | Community Media Foundation | National Association of Community Mediacenters | Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) | Korea Press Foundation (KPF) This book is a conference report of 2018 International Symposium on Media and Information Literacy. The Symposium on MIL is hosted by the Korea Press Foundation (KPF), the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS), and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU), in cooperation with the Community Media Foundation, the National Association of Community Mediacenters.