Welcome to Digital Literate

About the project

Digital Literate aims to capacitate educators in Digital and Media Literacy through continuous professional development initiatives and the development of key competences. We aim to raise awareness among educators about the potential of integrating Digital and Media Literacy topics within the subject curricula.

Project Creation

The project was initiated to empower educators in Digital and Media Literacy through ongoing professional development and to develop key competencies. It aims to raise awareness among educators about the potential of integrating Digital and Media Literacy topics into the curriculum.

Project Effect

The project will impact by promoting digital and media literacy across the entire school community, creating a supportive environment that encourages the development of digital competencies.

Project Actions

The project involves creating a training pathway in Digital and Media Literacy for educators, developing Learning Unit Plans by teachers, their pilot implementation in classrooms, and creating a Good Practice Catalogue in Digital and Media Literacy.

The Capacity Building Programme will establish the methodological framework used to train educators, including objectives, timeline, methodology, learning outcomes, key topics and training activities
Provide to teachers and school leaders key competences on digital and media literacy for education and addressing their need for Continuous Professional Development.
Development of a Digital and Media Literacy training path with high transferability.
The schools partners will create a Learning Unit Plan, namely a concrete lesson (or a series of lessons) which covers the topics of the MOOC’s modules.
Teachers will actively lead the pilot of the LUPs in classrooms through innovative and interactive teaching methodologies and support to students while they are producing their digital outputs.
Each school will collect students’ outputs together with the LUPs developed by teachers into a Good Practice Catalogue on Digital and Media Literacy.

Specific Objectives

Capacitate educators in Digital and Media Literacy, through continuous professional development initiatives and hands-on, collaborative approach
Raise the awareness of teachers and school leaders about the potential of integrating Digital and Media Literacy topics within the subject curricula

Equipe teachers, school leaders and students with digital skills necessary to:

Effectively access and critically analyse media content

Make informed decisions about which media they use and how to use them

Understand the ethical implications of media and new technologies

Communicate effectively, including by creating content.

Evaluate the information source in order to counter fake-news

Target Groups

Teachers

School Leaders

Students

Families