The Directorate for Digital Literacy & Transversal Skills
Digital Citizenship
Our Directorate is participating in these:
Projects
Facts4All
“Facts4All – Schools as community hubs against disinformation” project aims to develop a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for school leaders/teachers across Europe and beyond. The MOOC will provide interactive activities to tackle disinformation in schools as well as local Read More …
CO:RE
Our Directorate is participating in the Children Online: Research and Evidence. Children and young people go online virtually every day. International data on children and online media is extensive, heterogeneous and partly contradictory.Our aim is to create a comprehensive pan-European Read More …
Addressing Hate Speech
Online hate speech is a growing problem. People often experience the internet to be a hostile space. Hateful messages are increasingly common on social media. To complement existing initiatives to regulate, monitor or report online hate speech, a more pro-active answer Read More …
Working Groups
Digital Citizenship Working Group
Background In November 2016, European Schoolnet (EUN) organised its annual EMINENT conference[1] on the topic of digital citizenship and its multiple facets. At the Conference, 10 representatives of MoEs (proposed by EUN Steering Committee members) presented various aspects of the Read More …
Activities
eTwinning Online seminar: Media Literacy and Disinformation
This year, 2021, eTwinning has focused on two sides of the same coin: Media literacy, on one side, and how to tackle the phenomenon of disinformation and fake news, on the other. It was made clear during 2020, the year of the corona pandemic, that the exposure of citizens to disinformation is a major challenge not only for adults but also for students.
Safer Internet Day 2022
Addressing Online Hate Speech Debate An online debate, held on Friday 25th February 2022, in collaboration with the Migrant Learners Unit and the Education Officer for Ethics within the Directorate for Learning and Assessment Programmes. Panel Members: Ms Lusine Elizbaryan, Read More …
Safer Internet Day 2021
Video for children year 1 to year 6 This year we collaborated with Sedqa and they produced this video for children from year 1 to year 6. The mediums used for this video will be puppets which most children in Read More …
Safer Internet Day 2020
Malta joined the rest of Europe during Safer Internet Day with several activities in schools during that week. Safer Internet Day (https://www.saferinternetday.org/) is a global celebration that tackles the opportunities the Internet has to offer and the importance of making it a safer place. As educators we are aware of the ubiquity Read More …
Others
Safer Internet Forum 2021
BeSmartOnline! 2021-2022
2020
22nd January – Info session for educators (together with SELFIE). This wase repeated on 20th April.
11th February – Digital Citizenship Workshop during Safer Internet Day
13th March – Presentation Videogame culture: a map for teachers and parents – “What do we need to know about videogames?”, presented by Alessandro SORIANI with an introduction by Murat Kilic- for DL support teachers
3rd April – Workshop about 10 Domains of Digital Citizenship (Council of Europe )
