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Information Matters: Video Tutorials for Users

EAVI — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:28:34 +0000

Digital tools and online information are part of everyday life. But for many older adults, navigating them safely and confidently can be challenging. To support this need, Information Matters offers a specially designed video tutorial series for users aged 55 and above. These short, easy-to-follow videos provide non-formal lessons that introduce key topics in [...]

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Information Matters: Media and Digital Literacy for Adult Educators

EAVI — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:25:50 +0000

As digital technologies increasingly shape how we access information, communicate, and participate in society, media and digital literacy have become essential life skills, especially for older adults who may be more vulnerable to misinformation, privacy risks, and digital exclusion. To address this growing need, our Online Training Course on Media and Digital Literacy for [...]

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Lesson Plan: Identifying misleading images in the media

Paolo Celot — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 12:20:13 +0000

We are part of a mediated world. The development of technology has led us to a “new” digital world. We interact, communicate and even learn and work online, sometimes without restrictions and boundaries. Different people of different ages and social backgrounds communicate daily through their devices. Someone can say that the whole world is [...]

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Lesson Plan: Detecting and decoding bias in the media

EAVI — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:27:41 +0000

We live in an era of technological advances where we work, learn, communicate, get informed, and have fun online. Regardless of age, people nowadays tend to interact with devices, gadgets, and a variety of media almost all day. At the same time, many agree that we live in a post-truth era where non-factual and [...]

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GetFacts Training Outline and Toolkit

EAVI — Sun, 10 May 2020 19:19:22 +0000

EAVI is the expert partner in the "Get Your Facts Straight!" project coordinated by All Digital. Together with partners, we have developed a training programme for a 15h training course for 14-16 year old students and their parents and grand parents (5 hours for young people, 5 hours for adults, and then 5 hours [...]

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Media Literacy Workshop (Ages 10-11)

EAVI — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:58:30 +0000

Each part of the workshop is around one-hour in duration. The full day workshop will cover all of these parts. Pupils will be split into groups of four, of two girls and two boys where possible. They will be asked to work as a class in discussion, and in groups for some activities. Each [...]

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Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics

EAVI — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:12:20 +0000

Duration: 1 and ½ hours Introduction: It has become remarkably simple to create a valid-looking website, which to the unassuming eye resembles an official, big-name news outlet. But as if verifying text content wasn’t hard enough, seductive visualisations; graphs, charts, and maps, made with free tools found anywhere on the internet, can make fact [...]

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Digital Citizenship: Filter Bubbles

EAVI — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 09:01:28 +0000

Duration: 1 and ½ hours Introduction: The rise of filter bubbles and echo chambers on online platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Google has brought about significant social issues. Namely, that the algorithms at work on the web are extremely personalised (also relating to issues of data privacy and consent) and operate to direct [...]

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Fake News and Fact-checking

EAVI — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 08:49:49 +0000

Duration: 1½ hours Materials: Infographic: Beyond ‘Fake News’ Download a copy of our Beyond Fake News infographic with the link above. It is also available in Greek, French and Dutch. Game: Beyond the Headlines Graphic: 5 Key Concepts and Questions for Media Literacy Introduction The work needed to effectively filter information in our media-saturated [...]

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Propaganda

EAVI — Sun, 16 Jun 1016 15:34:21 +0000

Topic: Propaganda Aim: Introduce students to the history of propaganda, identify current uses of propaganda in the media In the modern era, where the tactics adopted to spread propagandistic messages have grown more and more refined, subtle, and persuasive, the minute we stop observing with a critical eye, we have already been persuaded. Those [...]

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