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Data Detox Kit
Guides, materials and resources by Tactical Tech to engage people in conversation about how to improve their digital lives and how they can take control of their privacy, security, and wellbeing. The Data Detox Kit is a simple, accessible toolkit available in physical and a digital version that walks you through the steps, you can take towards a more in-control online self. It takes a holistic approach, going through the different aspects of your digital life, from the amount of time you spend on your phone to the apps that you use to the passwords you set.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, Ukrainian.
Doom the Gloom interactive game
In this interactive experience by the LEGO Group, children join Captain Safety and his hero squad to defeat the ‘gloom’ which comes from how we treat each other or from meanies and scammers. Through fun videos and minigames, this experience will help build up child’s online safety skills.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Ukrainian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
Doublecheck
Doublecheck is a captivating game by Tactical Tech to help you see if you can spot visual dis- and misinformation.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Italian, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
Everything you need to know about video games
Everything You Need to Know About Video Games" is an educational resource designed to help parents and professionals understand the impact of video games on children and promote safe online behaviour. By providing clear and concise information, this publication empowers parents to make informed decisions about their children's gaming habits. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the world of video games, covering a wide range of topics, from the different genres and motivations for playing to the potential positive and negative impacts. It addresses important issues such as deviant behaviour, gaming disorder, and the role of adults in setting boundaries within gaming.
The publication offers practical guidance on topics like PEGI ratings, esports, and sexual abuse in online games, empowering adults to have informed conversations with children about their gaming habits, as well as providing them with guidelines for discussion. Ultimately, this publication aims to provide a valuable resource for parents and professionals, enabling them to support children in enjoying video games responsibly and harnessing their potential benefits.
- Country: Croatia.
- Languages: Croatian, English.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators
FICE 35 - Split conference
“SHAPING TOMORROW'S CARE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH: Quality and innovation in alternative care”
The conference will be a hybrid event with the possibility to participate in a number of online sessions remotely. FICE International (Fédération Internationale des Communautés Educatives) is a global network of organisations and professionals in the field of child and youth care and out-of-home care from more than 45 countries. FICE maintains contacts with UNESCO, UNICEF, the Council of Europe and ECOSOC. It is also a member of the UN-NGO-Group on the Rights of the Child and member of ENSACT.
The first Fice international scientific world congress was organized in 1948 in Trogen, Switzerland and has so far passed through almost all European countries, but this is the first time that it will be organised in Croatia.
- Country: Croatia.
- Languages: Croatian, English.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
FROG Future and Reality of Gaming
The international conference “FROG – Future and Reality of Gaming” invites to an academic discourse on the subject of games and play. In 2024, the conference is dedicated to connections between play & games, crisis and hope, and invites game scholars, creators, educators, students, activists and enthusiasts from around the globe to come together and reflect on the apocalypse through a lens of games & play.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German, English.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
Info Hunter
Create and host Media and Information Literacy sessions using turnkey courses. Find quizzes and interactive images to help you understand everything about information. Made by the French Safer Internet Centre.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French, English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
Lie Detectors
Lie Detectors is an independent media literacy organisation working in various countries in Europe. Lie Detectors runs a programme where trained journalists provide workshops and resources to help students critically analyse media content and identify misleading information. In 2017-2022, Lie Detectors visited 2,350 classrooms, and trained 1,650 teachers (46,900 pupils aged 10 to 15) in 5 countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland).
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English, French, German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
Mediacoach
Training programme. A Media Coach is a contact point, someone trained and who can instruct an audience on media literacy, conduct workshops, lessons, and so on. In addition to MediaCoach in Belgium, countries like Sweden have similar initiatives focused on training educators to become media coaches. These coaches then integrate media literacy education into their work with students to develop critical media analysis skills.
- Country: Belgium.
- Languages: Dutch, French, English
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
- Additional notes: Mediacoach video series
MLCE (Media Literacy Case for Educators)
MLCE – "Media Literacy Case for Educators: Sustainably Scaling Media Literacy in Europe Empowering teachers, educators and librarians across Europe to be innovative, future-fit advocates of Media Literacy", provides teachers, trainers and librarians across Europe with a one-of-a-kind comprehensive set of co-developed and creative tools, resources, methods and materials.
MLCE is co-funded by the European Union project and is coordinated by Tactical Teach, in collaboration with European Schoolnet, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), Save the Children (Italy).
The project has three objectives: developing effective methods of media literacy training centred on the needs of educators, creating engaging forms of media literacy engagement, and embedding effective media literacy tools and methods in European societal structures. The end result will be the Media Literacy Case for Educators: Creative Tools for Unpacking Media, which will include a Media Literacy Champions Course.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English, French, German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
- Additional notes: MOOC "Empowering educators for the next digital decade"
Open the Box
In 2020, the company Dataninja launched Open the Box in the midst of the pandemic as an innovative media, data and AI (artificial intelligence) literacy project, targeting teachers and educators to spread digital skills among 11-18-year-old students in Italy (Cf. Article in MLA Newsletter, Open the Box empowering a new generation of Italian teachers). Over the period 2020-2023, Open the Box reached 5,000 teachers, involved 30,000 students and completed 900 workshops. During the targeting phase, 250,000 teachers were reached with the digital campaigns which led to 5,000 signups for the free resources of the Open the Box platform. 2,500 teachers actively engaged in workshops, learning cafés or by providing articles for the project newsletter, of which 1,500 completed courses.
- Country: Italy.
- Languages: Italian, English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
SMILES
Media literacy project supported under the EC’s ERASMUS+ Programme that developed innovative learning methods to help young people deal with disinformation. The SMILES team was made up of partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain who work in libraries, media literacy organisations and research institutes. The SMILES team has prepared a series of activities, materials and tools about disinformation which allows young people aged 12 to 16 to develop their knowledge and skills in recognising and combating fake news and disinformation. According to the evaluation report, over 40 per cent of the pupils in the three countries enjoyed participating in the series of activities. Around 40-50 per cent of the pupils say they will apply what they have learned in practice.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
- Additional notes: Read the evaluation report here.
“Szkola z klasa” - School with class
Comprehensive school development programme that has been operating in Poland since 2002. School with Class runs educational programmes for schools, headteachers, and teachers, helping them to introduce new ways of working that go beyond usual practices in teaching and in school relations. They organise free training, courses and webinars, and prepare ready-made lesson scenarios, educational materials, publications and guides. The School with Class Foundation was founded in 2015 in Warsaw and is a spin-off from a large and very successful nationwide initial educational programme. The Foundation has already collaborated with over 9,500 schools, 150,000 teachers and over a million students. Each year it works with a vast network of schools (over 2,500 a year) both around Poland and abroad.
- Country: Poland.
- Languages: Polish, English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
The Glass Room
An interactive exhibition on data and privacy that provides different ways of understanding how technologies and data are changing our lives. The Glass Room is a public intervention by Tactical Tech that provides an interactive, fun, and challenging experience, bringing to life the most pressing challenges facing people and the tech industry today. As technology reaches a global scale and becomes embedded in every part of our lives and our environments, The Glass Room examines its impacts and helps visitors explore practical solutions to mitigate them. The Glass Room is currently available in three formats: the Misinformation Edition explores how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it; the Community Edition is a smaller, more portable version and adaptable format; the Glass Room Plus is a curated exhibition that can be set up at large cultural events in Europe.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
What the future wants
"What The Future Wants" is a creative, playful, youth-focused initiative by Tactical Tech designed to empower young people to shape the digital world they want to live in. Through visually engaging and captivating educational interventions and resources co-created with youth and educators, we foster spaces for conversations about how technology impacts our lives—from the individual to the societal and planetary levels. Moreover, we aim to build educators' capacity to lead initiatives that cultivate a sense of agency among youth in responding to the challenges of growing up in a tech-driven world.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Ukrainian , English, Croatian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Data Detox Kit
Guides, materials and resources by Tactical Tech to engage people in conversation about how to improve their digital lives and how they can take control of their privacy, security, and wellbeing. The Data Detox Kit is a simple, accessible toolkit available in physical and a digital version that walks you through the steps, you can take towards a more in-control online self. It takes a holistic approach, going through the different aspects of your digital life, from the amount of time you spend on your phone to the apps that you use to the passwords you set.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, Ukrainian.
Data Detox Kit
Guides, materials and resources by Tactical Tech to engage people in conversation about how to improve their digital lives and how they can take control of their privacy, security, and wellbeing. The Data Detox Kit is a simple, accessible toolkit available in physical and a digital version that walks you through the steps, you can take towards a more in-control online self. It takes a holistic approach, going through the different aspects of your digital life, from the amount of time you spend on your phone to the apps that you use to the passwords you set.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, Ukrainian.
eduCAC
The Catalan Audiovisual Council (CAC) launched eduCAC in 2018; a media literacy programme that offers primary and secondary schools and families educational resources to use audiovisual content critically and responsibly. The project is supported by the Catalan Regional Ministry of Education, the Catalan Society of Journalists, the Catalan Broadcasting Corporation (CCMA) and the "la Caixa" bank foundation. It aims to encourage critical analysis of content viewed on any type of screen and sensible device use, particularly among minors.
- Country: Spain.
- Languages: Catalan.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
SMILES
Media literacy project supported under the EC’s ERASMUS+ Programme that developed innovative learning methods to help young people deal with disinformation. The SMILES team was made up of partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain who work in libraries, media literacy organisations and research institutes. The SMILES team has prepared a series of activities, materials and tools about disinformation which allows young people aged 12 to 16 to develop their knowledge and skills in recognising and combating fake news and disinformation. According to the evaluation report, over 40 per cent of the pupils in the three countries enjoyed participating in the series of activities. Around 40-50 per cent of the pupils say they will apply what they have learned in practice.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
- Additional notes: Read the evaluation report here.
Be MediaSmartOnline: guide to media literacy initiatives in Europe
Based on the extensive and resourceful materials collected in the mapping exercise of the EU media literacy landscape, and on the consultation of the network of Safer Internet Centres all across Europe, this guide collects together the many media literacy programmes, actions, trainings, campaigns and other initiatives currently available across Europe. Currently, it features over 120 entries!