6. Media literacy vs Media education?
Media education = the process of teaching and learning about media.
Media literacy = the outcome of this process, the knowledge and skills
learners acquire.
Source: Media education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
8. Why is media education important?
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
As kids interact with media they absorb knowledge about the world,
themselves and others.
Young people need to develop knowledge, values, critical thinking,
communication and information management skills.
16. A1. TACKLING FAKE NEWS
IN A DIGITAL LITERACY
CURRICULUM
the first Romanian academic study
on students’ perceptionsabout fake news
to be presented at the 14th International Scientific Conference “eLearning and Software for Education”, Bucharest, April 19-20, 2018
(PILOT)
17. The purpose of the study was to gather
information on ways in which students
perceive what fake news are and to identify
their habits and practices when they have
encountered doubtful content.
• October-December 2017
• WUT LMS (online questionnaire //
ONLY 10 questions)
• 250 respondents, 1st year (39 M,
211 F)
• Two specializations:
Communication Studies and
Psychology
short bio-data
18. Is there a need for
training
students on this topic?
How students perceive and understand the
concept of doubtful content?
(clickbaits headlines, false or biased information online, deceptive advertising,
satirical websites etc.)?
How well the students
can research?
Do they know how to evaluate such
information? Do they distinguish
between real and fake news? What
are they research skills and abilities?
Research questions:
19. A2. Increased information / digital literacy education
(training)
New specialization
starting 2019-2020 academic
year WUT offers the
programme “Digital Media” at
bachelor level
Transversal disciplines
“Evaluating information
credibility and fighting against
fake news and content”
20. A3. Organization of different events on fake news
topic (workshops, lectures, conferences etc.)
Denisa RIFAI
16 May 2017
Moise GURAN
30 January 2017
International student event approaching the topics of DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP and
FAKE NEWS in European context.12 December 2017
21. A4. Awareness of fake news topic through the WUT
promotional materials (newsletter, Facebook page)
22. Bogdan Nadolu, The Sociology of politics (Sociologia politicului)
A5. Integrating fake news topic
in the syllabus of different disciplines (piloting the transversals)
Political life in the digital era – from google to fake news
Laura Malita, The evaluation of information credibility and online content
(Evaluarea credibilității informațiilor și a conținutului online)
The universe of fake online content: who and why is producing it, which contexts
24. A7. Integrating
MOOCs about fake
news in academic
courses
See Holotescu et al. (2014) Integrating MOOC in Blended Courses
https://www.coursera.org/learn/news-literacy
https://classroom.google.com
25. B. Next steps
• Academic Fake News Observatory (research, reports,
studies, guides etc.)
• OER library
• Short courses f2f for teachers
• Opening the MOOC on fake news this spring
• Partnership with industry
• Students’ high school specific activities:
(online)courses, workshops, camps etc.
https://west-university-timisoara.teachable.com/p/fake-news
26. Challenges for (RO) HE
• Train teachers (sharing best practices, lessons plan, specific examples
for their disciplines etc. )
• Train students
• Train stakeholders (academics etc.)
• Recommend policies to be introduced in curriculum
• Etc.
= take any measure to avoid/reduce 2nd and 3rd level of digital divide
(2nd = digital skills and competences and 3rd = digital empowerment)
The course offers a full course experience including
educational content
facilitation interaction among peers (including some but limited interaction with academic staff)
activities/tasks, tests, including feedback
some kind of (non formal) recognition options
a study guide / syllabus
The course offers a full course experience including
educational content
facilitation interaction among peers (including some but limited interaction with academic staff)
activities/tasks, tests, including feedback
some kind of (non formal) recognition options
a study guide / syllabus
The course offers a full course experience including
educational content
facilitation interaction among peers (including some but limited interaction with academic staff)
activities/tasks, tests, including feedback
some kind of (non formal) recognition options
a study guide / syllabus
Our data analysis revealed a number of interesting perspectives on the training of Romanian university academic staff on their way to becoming true 21st century teachers. The majority of respondents considered that their continuous training cannot ignore the problems related to the increased impact of new technologies. With the help of new technologies, teachers are more efficient in solving administrative tasks, have more opportunities for professional development, participate more in collaborative educational projects and manage to create more interactive, participatory activities for their students. On the other hand, if students are more involved in activities that include online applications, thus understanding better the content, and are more creative, the question is whether universities are prepared to convince teachers to participate in training programs (online or offline). Based on our data, we can turn a series of elements revealed by the participants in curriculum development suggestions for the training programs offered by higher education institutions.
Another EU report, entitled "The European Framework for Digital Competence of Educators” (DigCompEdu), highlights the idea that society has increasingly higher expectations from teachers (regardless of the level at which they teach). Teachers should be both specialists in the discipline and continuously develop not only pedagogical but also digital competences. Moreover, in the same report, the use of digital applications and the online environment becomes a new feature of professionalism in teachers’ education, with a set of 22 competences being identified for the "competent digital educator" (Figure 11).