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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. 
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: Council of Europe | 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). 
Internet Literacy Handbook: Supporting Users in the Online World Year of publication: 2017 Author: Janice Richardson | Elizabeth Milovidov | Martin Schmalzried Corporate author: Council of Europe This new edition takes into account the myriad changes, although the object of the Handbook still remains, namely to offer families, educators and policy-makers sufficient technical know-how to allow them to navigate, with young people, through communication technology. The new edition also expands the scope of the Fact sheets anchoring previously “new” concepts of digital citizenship and digital parenting. This edition includes 26 Fact sheets arranged under 6 thematic headings including a heading specifically dedicated to “Looking Forward” towards the future of the Internet. The Handbook is designed to be easy to use and helpful, as illustrated by the Fact sheet entitled “Finding quality information on the Web”. It is also available online, where it can be downloaded either in its full format or per individual factsheet. 
Life After Youth Media: Insights About Program Influence Into Adulthood Year of publication: 2014 Author: Suniya Farooqui | Amy Terpstra Corporate author: Social IMPACT Research Center This report examines the impact of Chicago’s youth media sector on the ability to consume and produce information that impact civic dispositions and engagement. 
Media and Information Literacy: A Practical Guidebook for Trainers Year of publication: 2021 Author: Sylvia Braesel | Thorsten Karg Corporate author: DW Akademie This guidebook provides MIL trainers with background information, training ideas, methods and worksheets. The book also provides sample training schedules to help you determine the length of time needed to teach individual aspects of media and information literacy. 
UNESCO MIL CLICKS Social Media Innovation Year of publication: 2016 Corporate author: UNESCO MIL CLICKS is a way for people to acquire media and information literacy (MIL) competencies in their normal day-to-day use of the Internet and social media and to engage peer education in an atmosphere of browsing, playing, connecting, sharing, and socializing. The acronym MIL CLICKS stands for Media and Information Literacy: Critical-thinking, Creativity, Literacy, Intercultural, Citizenship, Knowledge & Sustainability. 
World Programme for Human Rights Education: Plan of Action; Third Phase Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) | UNESCO The plan of action for the third phase (2015–2019) of the World Programme, which benefited from the input and review of governmental and nongovernmental experts and practitioners, proposes a concrete strategy and practical ideas for further implementing human rights education and training in the above-mentioned areas at the national level. Its key elements are highlighted below:Human rights education in the primary and secondary school systems and in higher education, and human rights training for teachers and educators, civil servants, law enforcement officials and the military. 
Digital Citizenship... and Your Child What Every Parent Needs to Know and Do Year of publication: 2019 Corporate author: Council of Europe The Council of Europe has created this guide to help you: better understand digital citizenship, and how it shapes online behaviour discuss digital citizenship with your children take steps to help your children master the competences digital citizenship is built on encourage your children’s school to play its role in educating competent young digital citizens. 
Global Media and Information Literacy Assessment Framework: Country Readiness and Competencies Year of publication: 2013 Corporate author: UNESCO The MIL Assessment Framework can foster lifelong learning initiatives by building on the relationship between information, media, digital, and ICT literacies, along with societal transformations, education, workforce, policy and decision making processes, economic growth and democracy. The overall goal of the publication is to guide UNESCO’s Member States throughout the assessment of country readiness and competencies regarding the media and information literacy of citizens, in particular teachers in service and in training. The document is particularly aimed at the following stakeholders: policy makers and decision makers; national officers responsible for statistical data collection and analysis; educational policy makers and planners working in formal and informal education settings; teacher training institutions and teachers. It is also of relevance to the professional information and communication community, and has wide applicability for civil society at large. 
A Journey to Media Literacy Year of publication: 2013 Author: Paolo Celot | Susie Jones Corporate author: European Association for Viewers Interests (ENVI) “A Journey to Media Literacy” is EAVI’s seven minute cartoon, designed to explain, in a fun and simple way, what Media Literacy is all about and why it is essential in order to live freely and participate fully in society. It was born thanks to a suggestion by Paolo's 3 kids, who being unable to understand what their father did at work, came up with the idea of making an adventure cartoon to explain ML.