Digital Well Being
As part of the Safer Internet Day activities in Malta, the Directorate for Digital Literacy and Transversal Skills organized this online debate in collaboration with the Early Years, Languages, and Humanities Programmes Directorate and the National School Support Services about Digital well-being. The Council of the European Union in its conclusions on supporting well-being in digital education (2022/C 469/04) describes digital well-being as “a feeling of physical, cognitive, social and emotional contentment that enables all individuals to engage positively in all digital learning environments including through digital education and training tools and methods, maximise their potential and self-realisation and helps them to act safely online and supports their empowerment in online environments” This online debate took place on Thursday, 22nd February, between 10 am and 11 am. During this session, several issues related to digital well-being were discussed. The panel was composed of Mr. Stephen Camilleri, Dr. Omar Seguna, Mr. Roger Tirazona, and Ms. Katinka Zahra Lehtonen.
During this session we discussed several issues related to Hate Speech and disinformation/misinformation. The session was held at the Directorate for Digital Literacy and Transversal Skills in Hamrun and was conducted by Dr. Omar Seguna (EO Digital Literacy). Guests include Mr. Omar Rababah, Mr. Roger Tirazona and Mr. Karl Coleiro.
Working Groups
Digital Citizenship Working Group
he Digital Citizenship Working Group, composed of members or nominees from ministries of education was established in 2017. It tackles challenges related to digital citizenship, whilst keeping teachers and schools actively involved in its debates and the design of its action plans.
The Working Group typically meets twice per year with the aim to:
- 1. develop a strategic digital citizenship framework and give a steer to European Schoolnet’s digital citizenship roadmap;
- 2. provide a platform for exchange between European Schoolnet network members, identifying best practices to share and challenges to overcome;
- 3. identify gaps and explore new areas of work.
16 countries participate in the working group: Belgium, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Serbia, and Turkey.
(cited from http://www.eun.org/about/working-groups)
Projects
Facts4All: “Schools as community hubs against disinformation” project was conceived with the aim to develop a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for school leaders/teachers across Europe and beyond. The MOOC provides interactive activities to tackle disinformation in schools as well as local communities. A total number of 15 school leaders/teachers from Belgium, Finland and Malta were identified and engaged in the project through the respective project partners, and in partnership with EUN’s network of Ministries of Education.
Website: https://fcl.eun.org/facts4all
