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31 students and 9 teachers from ten schools, participants of the ”Filtering Information” Summer Camp that took place within 20–26 August, developed and will implement projects to promote media literacy in their education establishments. Teams from 10 schools will receive small $300 grants from the Independent Journalism Center.
Among the experts and trainers that provided guidance to camp participants were Sorina Stefarta, Director of the School of Advanced Journalism, Dumitru Ciorici, cofounder of www.agora.md, Alex Lebedev, founder of www.diez.md, Vlada Ciobanu, blogger, and Lilia Zaharia, special reporter of the Independent Press Association. Training sessions focused on such topics as: what media and media literacy mean; what we know about news, vlogging, blogging and social media; faking, disinformation and manipulation in press.
Other topics also included online safety, covered by Eugenia Maxim from LaStrada, and exposing trolls on Facebook, explained by Victor Spanu, co-author of the Trolles application. The camp’s special guest Sorina Obreja, PRO TV reporter, told the participants about journalism behind the TV camera.
The camp’s program included a special two-day course for teachers on giving media literacy classes at school during homerooms. The course taught by Natalia Grau provided teachers with a number of applied tools to be used both with students and their parents, helping them develop critical thinking and become conscious media consumers.
On the last day of the summer camp participants presented their projects developed with the help of the experts Viorica Zaharia (Chairperson of the Press Council) and Diana Railean (reporter of Radio Europa Libera). During the following two months students will carry out their planned activities, and in November they will be invited to a new meeting to share experience and good practices.
Summer camp participants learned new and useful things about media which they will also share with their classmates. Maria Rusu, lyceum student in Zahoreni village, Orhei district: “I think there should be more such events, so that more students could take part in them, because it’s important to know what media are and how we can filter information”. Svetlana Jitariuc, teacher at Stefan cel Mare Lyceum in Grigoriopol: “We are glad somebody has thought about educating the media audience, too, as now there is an especially great need for it, and the information provided was made accessible enough so we can pass it on”.
Among the experts and trainers that provided guidance to camp participants were Sorina Stefarta, Director of the School of Advanced Journalism, Dumitru Ciorici, cofounder of www.agora.md, Alex Lebedev, founder of www.diez.md, Vlada Ciobanu, blogger, and Lilia Zaharia, special reporter of the Independent Press Association. Training sessions focused on such topics as: what media and media literacy mean; what we know about news, vlogging, blogging and social media; faking, disinformation and manipulation in press.
Other topics also included online safety, covered by Eugenia Maxim from LaStrada, and exposing trolls on Facebook, explained by Victor Spanu, co-author of the Trolles application. The camp’s special guest Sorina Obreja, PRO TV reporter, told the participants about journalism behind the TV camera.
The camp’s program included a special two-day course for teachers on giving media literacy classes at school during homerooms. The course taught by Natalia Grau provided teachers with a number of applied tools to be used both with students and their parents, helping them develop critical thinking and become conscious media consumers.
On the last day of the summer camp participants presented their projects developed with the help of the experts Viorica Zaharia (Chairperson of the Press Council) and Diana Railean (reporter of Radio Europa Libera). During the following two months students will carry out their planned activities, and in November they will be invited to a new meeting to share experience and good practices.
Summer camp participants learned new and useful things about media which they will also share with their classmates. Maria Rusu, lyceum student in Zahoreni village, Orhei district: “I think there should be more such events, so that more students could take part in them, because it’s important to know what media are and how we can filter information”. Svetlana Jitariuc, teacher at Stefan cel Mare Lyceum in Grigoriopol: “We are glad somebody has thought about educating the media audience, too, as now there is an especially great need for it, and the information provided was made accessible enough so we can pass it on”.
The media literacy summer camp called ”Filtering Information” was organized by the Independent Journalism Center jointly with Internews and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency via the Swedish Embassy in Chisinau.
