Implementing organisation

Fundația "Freedom House Inc" - Filiala București, Romania

 

Resource/publication to be used

Digital resistance - an empowering handbook for teachers

 

Overall objective

 Improve teachers’ capacity to help young students build resilience to online disinformation in Romania.

 

Specific objectives

 Equip teachers with innovative media literacy tools to support their students in building resilience to disinformation and fake news online.

 Increase students’ capacity to recognise disinformation and fake news online.

 Raise education authorities’ awareness of available tools to help build students’ resilience to fake news and disinformation.

 

Outputs/results

• A basic media literacy handbook for teachers was developed in Romanian.
• Training sessions on media literacy were developed for teachers and piloted (following the ‘training of trainers’ method).
• A media literacy campaign was delivered online with 12 schools and high schools throughout the country by the trained teachers. Students attended pilot courses and peer-to-peer activities on the topic.
• Education authorities were provided with the final Handbook (as an instrument to build students’ resilience to fake news) and with a proposal on its implementation on a national level.