For one week, elementary, middle and high school teachers helped their students to better understand the media system, form their critical judgement and develop their view on current affairs.

On this occasion, Internet Sans Crainte (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) provided about 20 free online resources to help children and young people aged 7 to 18 to better understand the information-making process. The resources included:

• Ready-to-use kits (kits clés en main) to host classroom workshops about fake news from elementary to high school.
• InfoHunter, a tool to create and host courses to decrypt information for young people in elementary, middle, high school or in workshops to develop their critical thinking and give them the keys of information-making processes.
• A special file about Information and Media Literacy (IML) to make children and young people aware of how to decrypt information online.

The Press and Media Week at School is the perfect time to raise awareness among young people about media and information literacy. To learn more about it, visit the website of the French Ministry of Education.

Find out more about the work of the French Safer Internet Centre, including its awareness raising, helpline, hotline and youth participation services – or find similar information for Safer Internet Centres throughout Europe.