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Spot and Fight Disinformation Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: European Commission The pandemic demonstrated just how fast misleading or false information can spread online. With this toolkit, secondary school teachers can help their students separate what is real from what is fake when they are browsing online. The toolkit is comprised of an editable presentation (which includes real life examples and group exercises) and an instruction booklet for teachers. 
State of the World's Forests 2022: Green Recovery, Creating Inclusive and Sustainable Economies Year of publication: 2022 Corporate author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Forests stand as a vital defense against climate change and biodiversity loss, while also providing livelihoods for millions of people across the world. But they are under threat. In the last 30 years, they’ve lost an area larger than Algeria and Libya combined. FAO’s latest State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) report identifies three pathways that can conserve forests while supporting environmental and economic recovery: halting deforestation, restoring degraded forests, and sustainably using forests to build resilient local economies. 
The Digital Future of Teacher Training in Indonesia: What’s Next? Year of publication: 2022 Author: Noah Yarrow | Noviandri Khairina | Jacobus Cilliers | Indah Dini Corporate author: World Bank | Government of Australia This report reflects on the Indonesia’s online teacher training ecosystem based on unique data collected from both teachers and providers during the COVID-19 period. A detailed mapping of the eight largest providers of online teacher training in Indonesia was conducted, covering 25 programs. We find that the majority of programs are short in duration and focus on digital literacy skills and remote learning. Training programs were mostly provided using online lectures, few provided individual coaching, while none provided opportunities for personalized learning. Second, we conducted a nationally representative phone survey of 435 primary and junior secondary teachers spanning 30 provinces across Indonesia (66 percent of whom are female teachers). The teacher survey was conducted between February and March 2021 and covered teachers under both the Ministry of Education, Research, and Technology (MoECRT) and the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MoRA). We find that 44 percent of teachers participated in online learning during the pandemic, and that three quarters of these teachers had never participated in online training prior to the pandemic. Many training participants reported challenges in implementing what they learned from online training. Most of the teachers who participated (88 percent) would like to continue receiving training online even after the pandemic ends. These results suggest that demand for online training is expected to persist, but more can be done to improve their quality. 
Inclusive Lifelong Learning in Cities: Policies and Practices for Vulnerable Groups Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) This publication features chapters on learning cities’ endeavours to promote inclusive lifelong learning for vulnerable groups. It is based on research papers prepared for the fourth International Conference on Learning Cities, which took place in 2019 in Medellín, Colombia, under the theme ‘Inclusion – A principle for lifelong learning and sustainable cities’ and hence marks a transition between the learning city conferences of 2019 and 2021. 
The Media Monsters: A Media Literacy Lesson Plan for Grade 3-5 Educators Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) | Makefully Studios In response to the increasing amount of media children are exposed to on a regular basis, the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) and Makefully Studios are teaming up to provide educators with unique content that will inspire relevant, rich, and age-appropriate discussion in their classrooms about how we all consume and interact with different types of media. Using this lesson plan, students will begin to identify, reflect and recognize behaviors and media practices in themselves, and identify the media literacy skills needed to improve the ways they engage with media and think critically about the media messages around them. 
Media Literacy Author: Sarah Firth Corporate author: Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House This infographic helps hook students into reflecting and considering a range of questions and information about media literacy. 
Journalism is a Public Good: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2021/2022; Highlights Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: UNESCO This document is a report on world trends in freedom of expression and media development published by UNESCO in 2021/22 and focuses on the many challenges facing access to information since 2016, in terms of analysis of trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and safety of journalists. 
The Media: Operation Decontamination (The UNESCO Courier no. 2; July-September 2017) Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: UNESCO The plurality of enlightened opinions is a prerequisite of the democratic development of our societies. The quality of the information disseminated by the media – traditional or new – is decisive when it comes to shaping public opinion. This is why UNESCO puts special emphasis on education about media and information, which it considers a fundamental skill for citizens in the twenty-first century.Freedom of expression and the free movement of ideas by words and images are among the constitutive principles of UNESCO and at the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. UNESCO supports the work of dedicated journalists and activists who defend fundamental freedoms, like the journalist Dawit Isaak, winner of the 2017 UNESCO/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, whose story appears in this issue of the UNESCO Courier.Over the last decade, more than 800 journalists have been victims of crimes aimed at muzzling freedom of expression. Only one murder out of ten ended with a conviction. This impunity is unacceptable and further fuels the spiral of violence in the future. This is why UNESCO is committed to putting an end to these crimes against the press, on all continents, as an indispensable condition for peaceful societies that are all the more robust for being better informed.In this “post-truth” era, the role of UNESCO is more important than ever, and this issue of the Courier is a wonderful opportunity to renew our founding commitment to support information and communication to build peace in the minds of men and women. 
The Role of Kuwaiti Satellite Channels in Promotion of Citizenship among Kuwaiti Youth Year of publication: 2012 Author: Hassan Algharbi Corporate author: Middle East University The focus of the problem that the research dealt with was on the following question: Have public and private Kuwaiti satellite channels contributed to enhancing the concept of citizenship among young Kuwaitis? The researcher adopted a definition of the concept of citizenship among the multiple definitions of this concept, which was tainted by some uncertainty and disagreement. Citizenship in this study "is the awareness of belonging to a geographical area of a specific political and social goals and shared one common culture and political system." 
[Video] Learning by Playing Strategy Year of publication: 2021 Author: Mama Fowzia The teacher of early education reviews the play-learning strategy used in kindergarten. The teacher begins by introducing the strategy. Then it presents the ways and methods of learning through play that the teachers can use.