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Journée internationale de l’éducation 2025 : L’intelligence artificielle et l’éducation : préserver l’autonomie dans un monde automatisé Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: UNESCO La Journée internationale de l’éducation 2025 vise à : Examiner les nouvelles possibilités offertes par l’IA, en particulier pour l’enseignement, l’apprentissage, l’évaluation et l’administration éducative. Promouvoir le développement de compétences critiques en matière d’IA en dotant les éducateurs et les apprenants des aptitudes nécessaires pour comprendre, utiliser et influencer les technologies d’IA, conformément aux cadres de compétences en IA de l’UNESCO pour les enseignants et les élèves. Veiller à ce que l’IA complète, plutôt qu’elle ne remplace, les éléments humains essentiels de l’apprentissage, notamment le développement des relations en présentiel et de l’intelligence émotionnelle. 
Journey through the MILtiverse: Media and Information Literacy Toolkit for Youth Organizations Year of publication: 2024 Author: Sandra Acero Pulgarin | Natalia González-Gil | Alejandro Santamaría Virviescas Corporate author: UNESCO Empowering Youth Organizations with and for Media and Information LiteracyIn an era where digital interactions dominate, young people must be equipped with more than just basic digital literacy skills. Media and Information Literacy (MIL) has become an essential competency, enabling them to critically navigate the overwhelming ow of information in our fast-paced and complex information ecosystem. \With the Internet user base getting younger every day — data shows that one in three internet users is a child — countries worldwide are increasingly working on integrating MIL into their education systems. Despite these advancements, many young people still grapple with challenges such as disinformation, hate speech, and other harmful online content. Additionally, new technologies continue to emerge, creating challenges with unknown impacts. For example, 80% of young people aged 10 to 24 use AI multiple times a day for education, entertainment, and other purposes. Global youth organizations are at the forefront of UNESCO’s eorts to promote MIL among young people through informal education. This toolkit serves as a primary resource to help these organizations incorporate MIL into their strategies, policies, and operations, aiming to make MIL a lasting component of their practices and peer-to-peer educational programs. Join us on this journey through the MILtiverse and empower the next generation by making MIL a fundamental life competence for their futures. 
Operational Guidelines: Constructing UNESCO Media and Information Literacy Cities Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO To support the integration of media and information literacy in urban spaces, UNESCO is releasing operational guidelines for city governance stakeholders. These guidelines aim to help cities align their goals with the benefits of integrating MIL into physical and virtual spaces.The guidelines offer examples of actions for cities interested in pioneering the MIL Cities. Cities are encouraged to share their progress and achievements with UNESCO for future initiatives.All cities and municipalities can participate, regardless of size, internet penetration, or technology use. The guidelines aim to foster diverse partnerships at the municipal level for implementing MIL actions and programmes. Directrices operativas: construyendo Ciudades de Alfabetización Mediatica eIinformacional de la UNESCO Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO Con miras a apoyar la integración de la alfabetización mediática e informacional en los entornos urbanos, la UNESCO publica directrices operativas para las partes interesadas en la gobernanza de las ciudades. Estas directrices procuran ayudar a las ciudades a alinear sus objetivos con los beneficios de integrar la AMI en espacios físicos y virtuales.Las directrices ofrecen ejemplos de actividades a las ciudades interesadas en ser pioneras en “Ciudades AMI”. Se les alienta a compartir sus avances y logros con la UNESCO para la elaboración de iniciativas en el futuro.Todas las ciudades y municipios pueden participar, independientemente de su tamaño, penetración de Internet o utilización de tecnología. Las directrices intentan propiciar asociaciones diversas a nivel municipal con objeto de ejecutar actividades y programas AMI. 
Countering Holocaust Denial and Distortion through Education: A Guide for Teachers Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: UNESCO Antisemitic hate speech, disinformation, and conspiracy theories thrive during crises, making it vital for teachers to address these issues in school curricula. Social media has significantly amplified the spread of such harmful content, including Holocaust denial and distortion. These falsehoods, rooted in antisemitic prejudice and conspiratorial thinking, threaten our shared historical memory and promote hatred. To effectively combat these issues, it is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of the Holocaust —how and why the genocide of the Jewish people occurred. This knowledge helps us recognize the causes and risk factors, contributing to the prevention of future atrocity crimes and the fight against antisemitism. In the digital age, it is also imperative to be able to decipher the manipulation of history, and the misrepresentation of the past.The guide provides teachers with the necessary tools and guidance to prevent the spread of Holocaust denial and distortion. It equips teachers with knowledge, teaching principles, and strategies to foster digital literacy, historical understanding, and critical thinking in learners. Aimed primarily at history and social sciences teachers, it outlines key concepts, teaching methods, and approaches to counter Holocaust denial and distortion. 
Countering Holocaust Denial and Distortion through Education: Lesson Activities for Secondary Education Year of publication: 2025 Corporate author: UNESCO Adaptable lessons to foster critical thinking, empathy and tolerance Holocaust denial rejects historical facts outright, while distortion manipulates the narrative. Both phenomena undermine historical truth, fuel antisemitism, and attack democratic values. By addressing these issues, this set of lesson activities for secondary education seeks to build students’ resilience against falsehoods through fostering critical thinking, empathy, and global citizenship. It was developed by UNESCO and funded by the European Commission to equip educators with tools to confront the dangerous spread of Holocaust denial and distortion. With 12 engaging lessons, students aged 14 to 18 will explore the historical facts of the Holocaust while learning to critically evaluate misinformation in today’s digital world. From analyzing survivor testimonies to deconstructing harmful memes and conspiracy theories, this resource features 12 adaptable lessons that focus on historical literacy, media analysis, and social-emotional competencies. Topics range from identifying denial and distortion, evaluating media and online sources, analyzing primary evidence like survivor testimonies, and understanding the misuse of Holocaust history in memes and conspiracy theories. Activities are scaffolded with questions, examples, and practical exercises to encourage analytical skills and promote meaningful classroom discussions. The lessons also include suggestions for incorporating primary sources, visiting memorial sites, and addressing broader issues of genocide and hate. In doing so, the guide aims to not only preserve Holocaust memory but also strengthen the values of truth, empathy, and tolerance in younger generations. 
Covering Hate Speech: A Guide for Journalists Year of publication: 2025 Author: Cherian George Corporate author: UNESCO This guide is the first in a series of guides for journalists prepared jointly by the UNESCO Communication and Information and Education Sectors on covering hate speech and its different manifestations.This guide explains what may count as hate speech, the harms it may cause, the way it works, and how media gatekeepers and other actors can address it. Many debates around hate speech are about law and regulation. Understanding the law, especially international law, can help journalists when reporting incidents where speakers are accused of hate speech. It can also help them analyse whether existing laws, as written and as applied, comply with international human rights approaches for striking the right balance between freedom of expression and the right to dignity, equality and non-discrimination. 
Как писать о языке ненависти: руководство для журналистов Year of publication: 2025 Author: Cherian George Corporate author: UNESCO Настоящее руководство — первое из серии, подготовленной совместно Секторами коммуникации и информации и образования ЮНЕСКО, и посвящено освещению журналистами языка ненависти и его различных проявлений.В настоящем руководстве рассматриваются определения языка ненависти, вред, который он может причинять, механизмы его распространения, а также способы, с помощью которых представители СМИ и другие заинтересованные стороны могут ему противодействовать. Вокруг языка ненависти нередко возникают правовые споры. Знание законодательства, особенно международного, помогает журналистам освещать случаи, когда кого-либо обвиняют в использовании языка ненависти, а также анализировать, соответствуют ли действующие нормы — как в теории, так и на практике — международным стандартам прав человека, где необходимо находить баланс между свободой выражения и правами на достоинство, равенство и недопущение дискриминации. 
Monitoring Progress towards SDG Target 4.7 on Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Year of publication: 2024 Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team This document introduces key messages from the GEM Reports and other related publications and online resources regarding the progress towards SDG Target 4.7. 
School Leadership Roles and Standards: Observations from the International Study of Teacher Leadership Year of publication: 2024 Author: Charles F. Webber | Dorothy Andrews | C.P. van der Vyver | Clelia Pineda-Báez | Janet M. Okoko | Edith J. Cisneros-Cohernour | José Gabriel Domínguez-Castillo | Mohammed Elmeski | Molly P. Fuller | Joan M. Conway | Cristina Moral-Santaella | Gloria Gratacós | Samira Idelcadi Corporate author: UNESCO | Global Education Monitoring Report Team This paper was commissioned by the Global Education Monitoring Report as background information to assist in drafting the 2024/5 GEM Report, Leadership in education. This report summarizes the findings of the International Study of Teacher Leadership(ISTL), conducted in 12 countries. The researchers share descriptions of the increasing interest in teacher leadershipas a factor in student learning and school improvement. ISTL researchers focus primarily on classroom-based teachers who—in collaboration with formal school leaders, parents, community members, and colleagues—impact school-wide decision making and pedagogical practices. The report offers insights related to teacher leader behaviours, the complexity of teacher leadership, how teacher leaders learn to lead, and the importance of contextual factors that support and impede teachers who provide informal leadership to schools and the communities they serve. The researchers compare cross-cultural requirements of good leadership and offer contextually situated analyses of leadership visions and goals, the impact of teacher leadership on educational outcomes, necessary preconditions for effective leadership, and policies that develop teacher leadership. The researchers also describe the readiness of school communities to embrace teacher leadership, described variously as parallel leadership, shared leadership, and distributed leadership. The report argues for a shift from considering standards for teacher leadership—too often based on the assumption that leadership is consistent across cultural and organizational settings—to the more flexible and contextualized conceptualization of leadership dimensions such as purpose, self-awareness, intentionality, and culture building. The ISTL researchers also argue that teacher leadership is but one component of an integrated approach to educational governance that addresses the complexities of teaching and learning in relation to rapid socioeconomic change, global migration, political tensions, and the emergence of new technologies. The ISTL also reinforces the ongoing importance of classroom teachers in the achievement of educational objectives. The ISTL team concludes this report with a set of research recommendations.