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Project plan

  • About the project

    In various formats, media have influenced children's development for hundreds of years. However, in recent decades media influence on children has steadily increased as new and more sophisticated types of media have been developed and made available to the public. Availability, as well as greater affordability for families, has provided easier access to media for children. Beneficial effects include early readiness for learning, educational enrichment, opportunities to view or participate in discussions of social issues, exposure to the arts through music and performance, and entertainment. Harmful effects may result from sensationalization of violent behavior, exposure to subtle or explicit sexual content, promotion of unrealistic body images, presentation of poor health habits as desirable practices, and exposure to persuasive advertising targeting children.

     

    Aims

    Explore habits of media usage of the students for the purpose of conducting joint Erasmus + K229 project. In the focus of this research will be testing of students’ habits regarding their daily informing about what is happening around them and in the world. Our intention is to find out who are their idols from the media and their influence on the children, what are their opinion about fake news and cybersecurity.
    One goal of this project is also meeting the partners and evaluating their competences for conducting the Erasmus+ project. 

     

    Work process

    December
    • who we are - students introductions and greetings on Padlet web tool on public Twinspace
    • students interviewing by Google disk questionnaire (a topic will be media habits of the students, their idols from the media their opinion about fake news and cybersecurity)
    • using different web tools students will present a magazine for children and teenagers (paper and digital) from their countries (each school minimum 2 magazines)
    January/February 
    • using different web tools students will make presentations about their idols from media; we will put 4 most relevant presentations from each school on the eTwinning page
    Dissemination
    • school web pages; presenting the results of the project during Teacher’s councils in schools; presenting the results to other students in the schools 

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    Expected results

    For students
    • be more aware of personal media habits and compare them with habits of our peers from other partner countries
    • expend students’ digital skills by using different digital tools, but also develop teamwork, communication, and collaboration as well as expand their horizons through international cooperation with other students from neighboring countries
    For teachers 
    • empowerment of the capacities for participating in European projects
    • enrich teachers’ teaching and add additional motivation to students to exercise the critical thinking skills needed to locate, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information in our technological society 
    • using the results of this project to create a joint Erasmus+ KA 229 project