{"id":3484,"date":"2023-09-28T19:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medialiteracyireland.ie\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2023-09-28T19:36:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:36:32","slug":"be-media-smart-training-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medialiteracyireland.ie\/ga\/be-media-smart-training-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Media Smart training gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Be Media Smart Community Training Programme swings into action during October with a small army of community-based volunteers signed up to become Be Media Smart trainers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications for the free online training for community-based trainers has now closed and a series of six online \u2018Train the Trainer\u2019 sessions are scheduled to take place on October 12, 17, 19 and November 4, 8 and 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This training, developed and delivered by Dr Ricardo Castellini da Silva, a Media Literacy educator and a Postdoctoral Researcher with DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo), is designed to empower community-based learning facilitators with the necessary knowledge, tools, techniques, and resources to deliver Be Media Smart Workshops in their own communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 170 volunteers expressed interest in the free media literacy training, prompting the MLI team to explore adding even more training dates in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the online training, Ricardo, in partnership with TG4, is also planning a face-to-face training session for Irish language speakers, and a dedicated online session for Public Library staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, keep an eye on the MLI and Be Media Smart websites for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Be Media Smart Community Training Programme swings into action during October with a small army of community-based volunteers signed up to become Be Media Smart trainers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[207,215,217,51,216],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mli-news","category-news","tag-be-media-smart","tag-community-training-programme","tag-edmo-ireland","tag-media-literacy","tag-media-literacy-training"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Be Media Smart training gets underway - Media Literacy Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Be Media Smart Community Training Programme swings into action during October with a small army of community-based volunteers signed up to become Be Media Smart trainers. 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