This interactive online seminar is part of a series of online events organised by the Media & Learning Association together with EDMO to highlight specific aspects of the media literacy work of the EDMO hubs and to identify good practice that can be shared by others engaged in media literacy.
The focus of the session:
Ireland Hub:
Training, resources and partnerships to promote Media Literacy across the country.
How EDMO Ireland in partnership with Media Literacy Ireland is planning to develop resources, provide training, and build partnerships with key stakeholders to promote media literacy over the next 15 months. (Presentation)
Belgium-Luxembourg Research Hub on Digital Media and Disinformation – BELUX:
What educational materials do teachers share / want?
Peer-to-peer websites for teachers exist in both Flanders and French-speaking Belgium. There they can exchange teaching materials with each other. Mediawijs and Média Animation dived into KlasCement.be and e-classe.be respectively to find out which teaching material about disinformation teachers share with each other, which they use a lot and which they like. This analysis gives us an indication of what kind of educational material is desirable or even what teachers really need. (Presentation 1 / Presentation 2)
Italian Digital Media Observatory – IDMO
Tools to prompt media literacy to enhance decision-making.
IDMO’s current and future activities aimed at building public resources and tools with a range of stakeholders to enhance media literacy. A particular focus will be devoted to the relevance of media literacy to inform public decision-making processes. (Presentation)
Meet your Trainers
Dr Ricardo Castellini da Silva is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in DCU Anti-Bullying Centre. Ricardo is a media literacy educator with an interest in studies and practices at the interface between education and communications, especially in relation to digital media, disinformation, multimodal learning and new literacy studies. His research has investigated the many ways in which new digital media technologies can be used to promote media literacy for secondary students and enhance teachers’ practices in the use of technology in the classroom. Since 2015, Ricardo has been teaching on undergraduate and graduate programmes at both Dublin City University and Trinity College Dublin. He has also designed and delivered workshops, seminars and multimedia learning resources on various topics related to media literacy education.
Bert Pieters works for Mediawijs, the Flemish knowledge centre for digital and media literacy. He has built up a large expertise on representation in the media and polarization/radicalization, visual literacy, propaganda and conspiracy thinking. In recent years he has mainly experimented with ways of teaching about propaganda and conspiracy thinking.
After a master’s degree in Romance languages and literatures and semiology (ULiège), I worked as a French teacher and digital referent at secundary school. I also gave a popular literature course in adult training. Since 2021, I have been a project manager at Media Animation. My job is to train and support teachers in media education and to intervene in the writing of educational tools and publications.
Lorenzo Federico is a postdoctoral researcher at Luiss Data Lab, he holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology and has worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Warwick. His main research interests are in network theory and its applications to the study of online communication.
Elena Musi is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Artificial Intelligence and Communication at the University of Liverpool and research consultant at IDMO. Elena’s current research interweaves Artificial Intelligence and Communication Sciences with the broad aim of tracing back in a critical perspective debates about new technologies and their global impact, with particular focus on (mis)information and human-computer interaction. She has been PI on a series of research projects among which the UKRI ESRC funded project “Being Alone Together: Developing Fake News Immunity” (https://fakenewsimmunity.liverpool.ac.uk/).