Last moments of a productive transnational meeting, in Porto.
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MIA at the 2nd meeting of Innovative Centres of Andalusia (Spain)
On 9 May, the “II Meeting of Innovative Centres of Andalusia” was held at the University of Huelva (Andalusia-Spain), as part of the research project “Innovative Centres” by the DIM-EDU group and organised jointly with Agora Group (HUM-648) belonging to the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sports Sciences of the University of Huelva. The conference was attended by 300 teachers from nursery, primary and secondary schools throughout Spain.
The main objective of this meeting was to exchange knowledge and experiences between schools that are already innovating in the classroom in order to better guide the actions they are already carrying out. The aim of the conference was also to provide guidance and examples for centres that are beginning this process.
Within the framework of this meeting, our Media in Action project was presented by the Spanish team, represented by Paloma Contreras-Pulido, Mª Amor Pérez-Rodríguez, and Daniela Jaramillo-Dent, who had the opportunity to explain the main lines of the project and to provide attending educators with the possibility of participating in future MIA training activities.
MIA at the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Conference – Educate to Create
This year, Bulgaria holds the presidency of the European Union. Our project manager Angela was invited to Sofia to represent MIA as a panel speaker at the Educate to Create conference. Continue reading MIA at the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Conference – Educate to Create
Media in Action project kicks off to a good start
The Media in Action consortium met in Cardiff’s Principality Stadium at the end of January for our project kick off meeting. There was an air of excitement and a keenness to hit the ground running in this one year pilot project co-funded by DG Connect. Work has already started identifying existing good practices and competency frameworks key to making the project a success. We hope that our good vibes have a positive effect on the teams due to play in the Six Nations Rugby tournament over the coming weeks, although being a European project we couldn’t quite decide who to support when Wales isn’t playing! Continue reading Media in Action project kicks off to a good start
Presenting MIA to the Media Literacy Expert Group, Brussels
MIA was presented to the Media Literacy Expert Group in Brussels, here are the slides and accompanying notes.
Check out the Media in Action project in educator training in #medialiteracy and storytelling https://t.co/3MnFHAS2nS pic.twitter.com/EhLBqpEOWr
— EU Media Literacy (@EU_MediaLit) 14 December 2017
Continue reading Presenting MIA to the Media Literacy Expert Group, Brussels
Partners
The Media in Action consortium is a group of professionals, academics, researchers, journalists and education specialists from across Europe.
We are
Pontydysgu (UK, Germany, Spain),
COFAC (Portugal),
Cooperativa Nuova Dimensione (Italy),
Grupo Comunicar (Andalusia)
and KIC (Malta)
Media in Action is a Media Literacy for all pilot project funded by DG Connect
About
Media in Action is a project in educator training in media literacy and storytelling.
The project aims to work directly with educators such as youth and community group leaders, teachers, trainee teachers, teaching assistants, librarians and others involved with education for children aged 6-18. We will work at two levels: the educators and through them targeting young people in their communities.
We will provide training and support materials and workshops to enable educators to set up a media centre within their organisation aimed at increasing the critical thinking towards the media among citizens. Through this media centre we can create conditions for participants to better understand how media and news media work and also, through that, stimulating each group or class to be able to produce multi-media such as blogs, videos and podcasts in order to tell their stories. The centres will be linked by a media hub – one website where you can find and interact with content from groups all over Europe. Everything the participants learn along the way in terms of skills in journalism, media literacy, critical thinking, presentation, understanding texts, technical and digital skills will be recognised by awarding open badges. The materials will be differentiated to help remove some of the barriers to participation typically encountered. By utilising a range of multimedia tools we aim to make it easier for everyone involved to access the project.
We intend to work with 70 educators across Europe directly through workshops and focussed teaching and learning events. Each of these educators will be in regular contact with many young people in their institutions but we estimate that another 560 participants will be impacted as a result of those educators.
The resulting open access resources and the online course will be freely and publicly available. We hope to attract more educators to our online community of practice via these resources and for every educator we recruit we expect another 8 young people to be impacted.
Expected results include:
A training course for educators in Media Literacy and Storytelling;
Teaching and learning materials;
A repository of lesson plans and resources;
An online community;
A showcase of stories from end users.
Media literacy is an essential skill for any generation to master. Becoming media literate means young people build communication skills, and also become equipped with the tools to interpret, to understand, to critically question and to interact with media. The ability to create your own media is empowering and outlets such as a blog or a podcast give a platform for young people to tell their personal story so as to build a place in culture and society. In this particular aspect, we intend to take advantage of digital storytelling inspired in journalistic techniques, as educational tools.
The project embraces a holistic methodology building products from the ground up, reflecting learning in a flexible curriculum rather than outlining a rigid learning path from the outset, recognising the learning which occurs rather than prescribing what can be learned. Providing a platform from which unheard stories can be told and supporting and facilitating the process.
There are many project outcomes which are useful tools and resources for educators but the most important outcome will be the positive effects that the project has on the young people who participate. Not only will they gain a wide range of skills but they will benefit from the social and individual growth derived from engaging with fulfilling storytelling.
