IBERIFIER no Canadá: Formar professores e jornalistas em literacia para os media

O projeto IBERIFIER e particularmente o trabalho desenvolvido em termos de literacia dos media esteve em foco numa das três comunicações que o investigador Vitor Tomé apresentou na “Global Media Education Summit”, que decorreu na Simon Fraser University, em Vancouver, Canadá, de 2 a 4 de março. A primeira comunicação, em co-autoria com Miguel crespo, teve como título “Tackling disinformation in K-12 through in-service teacher training and journalists’training: preliminary
results from the Iberifier Hub” e esteve centrada na formação de professores e de jornalistas, antes e depois da pandemia COVID-19.
A segunda, em co-autoria com Belinha de Abreu, denominou-se “Building a community-based project starting from a Primary school through Media Literacy and Digital Citizenship Education” e consistiu na apresentação de resultados do projeto “Academia de Cidadania Digital”, desenvolvido em Caneças desde 2015 e que foi financiado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian entre 2019 e 2022.
A terceira comunicação, de que foram também autores os investigadores georgianos Sophiko Lobzhanidze, Marika Sikharulidze, Giorgi Urchukhishvili (Ilia State University), foi subordinada ao tema “Digital Citizenship Education: perceptions on the concept and self-reported competences of Georgian school society” (na foto). Apresentou os resultados de um projeto de Educação para a Cidadania Digital desenvolvido em escolas da Geórgia entre 2019 e 2022.
Ainda na conferência, o investigador participou no painel “Creating Professional Learning Communities for Media Literacy Education”, sobre a Educação para os media no período póspandemia, com foco na formação de professores e educadores, no qual participaram também Silke Grafe (University of Wuerzburg, Alemanha), Renee Hobbs (University of Rhode Island, EUA) e Yonty Friesem (Columbia College Chicago, EUA).

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