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Well, we know you'd say 'yes' - otherwise you wouldn't look at this right now :) The thing is, since sharing is a fundamental dimension of the 'relationship revolution' that the advance of the digital technologies ignited, it's great if you support others to do too AND share with others in the process...
You definitely know how to do that in a myriad of ways. So, we are looking forward to you sharing with us your experiences in media education / media literacy projects and programmes for adults. We aim to build a sizeable community of practice gathering people believing that, in the process of adjusting to the increasingly 'digital' world in which we live, training people how to start a computer and to move a mouse around is simply not enough - or not the point: the emergence of computers may have changed the world, but the media, made so accessible by the incredibly fast advance of the digital technologies, is shaping it.
And if you are interested in some tips on how we see these things, join our DIGITAS training course, present in the Comenius-Grundtvig Training Database of the European Commission's DG Education and Culture, under code RO-2010-086-003 - for which you may be eligible to apply for an In-Service Training grant at your Lifelong Learning Programme National Agency (if you are from a Programme Country).
Additional details on the course and how to participate - here.
DIGITAS (short for Digital Asylum-Seekers – Media education crash course for parents and grandparents) is a project that arose from the need for a media education-related training action focused on trainers and teachers working with parents and older learners that is NOT confined within the ‘protectionist’ paradigm and aimed at the ‘demystification’ of media. DIGITAS assumes that (multi)media is here to stay, that the advance of digital technologies has contributed to the emergence of new cultural forms, that exclusively require multimodal literacies – and that some cultural practices of youth, ‘born’ into various multimodal literacies at work in an increasingly digital mediascape, offer consistent opportunities for inter-generational and family learning. DIGITAS produces a training course available in the Comenius/Grundtvig Training Database and delivered to adult education trainers and teachers - with online support on a Moodle Virtual Learning Environment.
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This website reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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