By Jane McGarrigle, Webwise. Safer Internet Day will take place on Tuesday 9th February 2021, this EU wide initiative promotes a safer internet for all users, especially young people. Webwise is responsible for the coordination and promotion of Safer Internet Day in Ireland and while the celebrations will look a little different this year, there
The Local Government Management Agency are looking to appoint an external Service Provider to design and implement a learning module to equip public library staff in Ireland with the skills needed to provide media literacy training to adult library users. The learning module should be developed in consultation with the stakeholders listed below and should
By Carol McCarthy, Director of Communications, The News Literacy Project. The News Literacy Project (NLP) is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the skills needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.
By Mark Carpenter, Head of Strategy & Corporate Affairs, Sky Ireland. The Edit will provide primary and secondary schools across UK & Ireland with a platform and the training to produce broadcast news reports from script to screen. With the use of Adobe’s creative tools and Sky’s content, young people can enter their climate change
EPRA, the European platform of regulatory authorities, the oldest and largest network of broadcasting regulators, launched a series of online meetings in September entitled ‘MIL Networks: Learning from each other”. Aimed at exchanging ideas and best practices regarding media literacy networks, from their creation to their evaluation, these three meetings held in the course of
Dun Laoghaire Library has partnered up with media educator Ricardo Castellini da Silva to create a media literacy series on disinformation, fake news and privacy. The series has been produced to promote an exhibition on misinformation called ‘The Glass Room: Misinformation Edition’, created by Tactical Tech. The exhibition was meant to be hosted by dlr
October is European Cyber Security Month (ECSM). ECSM is coordinated by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and takes place each year during the month of October. The campaign is supported across Europe by Member States who organise numerous activities including conferences, workshops and webinars. They also disseminate appropriate awareness-raising material and good practices
Webwise, the Irish internet safety awareness center have launched their annual campaign, this year the campaign takes a look at how teens use social media. The Full Picture is a short film exploring how young people use social media to connect and share. Aims at young people and parents, the film highlights the influences and pressures