- Soverato (CZ) - Italy
- Satriano (CZ) - Italy
- info@associazionejump.it
MEDIA EDUCATION/MIL – Media and Information Literacy + Video making@school. New frontiers to educate new global media literate citizens and fight bullying
ERASMUS K1 PROJECT
about the course
course description
This course is an innovation because it is the fusion of different learning paths we have crossed to make a unique training program more practical than theoretical.
It combines the fundamentals of Media Education/MIL and Video Making which are useful tools for students engagement, inclusion and to fight bullying at school.
Media Education is already familiar to teachers. Now it is more trendy to say MIL (Media and Information Literacy) to help teachers and students to become more media literate and aware of information, fake news, and dangerous risks from the net.
Young people are bombarded with information more than ever, and it can be difficult to distinguish the real from the fake or the important from the trivial. In the last ten years, news media has changed dramatically from traditional print to digital media– and social media has changed the world. As students become more connected, they need to be informed, more aware, and able to face what awaits them in the near future with the information sector.
Video Making or digital Storytelling is trendy now, thanks to many new professions born in the digital era connected with social media, marketing, and digital content production. According to the actual digital transformation happening, it’s recognized that videos are a very powerful tool to teach, educate and involve. Nowadays, kids and youngsters have to be considered a kind of addicted to videos and YouTubers fans. The risk of becoming clinically addicted is true but, at the same time, young generations have to become more aware of how a video can be created, for professional and educational purposes. Included, many teachers have become YouTubers, bloggers, and video makers with public channels of social pages where they become famous and they share what they can create to teach and change methods and perspectives in education.
Storytelling has always been a significant part of history, but the means through which the stories have been told have evolved with each civilization. From the oral histories presented by bards in ancient courts, to the works of scribes during the Renaissance, to newspapers, CNN, and now the Internet, a personal narrative has been used to communicate the events of the past. Digital storytelling now combines tradition with technology and allows students to tell stories through voice, text, images, audio, and video.
Digital stories allow students to take a linear series of events and turn them into a multidimensional experience. It encourages them to communicate, collaborate, and research as well as to infuse media into the process. A plethora of tools and apps exist to create these projects, and all of them enable students to gain a deeper understanding of history as they explore the most effective way to retell it.
Digital storytelling for all is a training designed for all who want to deepen their knowledge about audiovisual content creation.
Storytelling is a meaningful tool that can be used in the classroom to engage student learning as well as to enhance the expression of views, and stimulate creativity, critical thinking, and reflections on social issues.
Storytelling is an experience created with the main aim to offer a practical approach to learning how to create an audiovisual product in its 3 main phases: pre-production, production, and post-production.
“Video art is a contemporary art form that deals with everyday issues, problems, dilemmas, and wishes, and focuses mainly on human existence and experience. Video as a medium in artists´ hands has the ability to connect identity, experiences, and knowledge through the arrangement and management of images, text, and sound into a work of art. As a technology tool it has the capacity to capture learners´ interest and connect school life with the everyday world since video is already a significant part of their life in many forms (e.g. through television, internet, video games, and mobile phones)”.
The program structure will cross the different areas of video production and video concept focused on teachers’ and educators’ jobs related to the work in the classroom.
The increasing use of social media and media tools in school and the growing bullying phenomena start with very young students. Media has a huge impact on our lives and school is a long-term stage of life where teachers have roles as educators, but also as mentors and people who connect to the outside world themselves. Teachers stand in the middle between principals and parents and represent a point of reference for students who grow up in classrooms and need to become young adults and adults, European citizens ready to become freelancers, entrepreneurs, or employees.
Approximately 32 percent of students report being bullied at school, research shows that schools where students report a more severe bullying climate perform worse on standardized assessments than schools with a better climate.
LEARNING GOALS:
- improve the understanding and awareness about Media Education and MIL and the importance and relevance of its use in nowadays school system
- develop technical skills related to the pre-production, production and post production phase of video making applied to educational contexts
- widen their perspective and skills related to the use of video storytelling for educational purposes
- develop their creativity and ability to engage students with innovative methodologies that promote collaboration and active participation
- learn how to promote critical thinking and autonomy for a more conscious approach to media by students, moving from passive users to conscious and skilled content creators
Target Group
Participants can be any teacher at any level of education working in a public or private school or educational institution.
program/Training Modules
INTRO/METHOD
Like all our programs, the present one is flexible and adaptable to special requests, depending on the subject taught or on the starting level of the participant.
Furthermore, in line with the JUMP Academy method, our courses are based on a strategic balance between formal and non-formal education, indoor and outdoor education and the team takes care of a very important aspect of international mobility which is the intercultural learning which we develop with short excursions and facilitating the interaction with local partners, businesses and citizens of our territory. Each local context has its own economy so it’s always useful, in training programs, to get in contact with concrete examples (experiential learning and real based learning).
We always try to connect our learners to local teachers and students to cooperate in developing innovation and networking for future projects. If possible, inside the program, a morning is spent inside a local school, visiting, observing, and cooperating in the realization of one or more lessons. The proposed program JUMP works, in European dimension and with an international spirit, at the local level and, according to the period of the training along the year and the weather, it is possible to change some sessions and add visits and meetings, in cooperation with our network of partners including schools involved in European projects).
WEEK DAILY SCHEDULE
Saturday or Sunday:
Arrival of participants, transfer and welcome. Lodging and logistic support. Depending on the arrival time the participants are helped to have a meal or fulfill any other need.
Monday morning session: 09:30 – 12:30
Meeting in the lobby of Villa Gabriella International, welcome, first briefing by the organizers, presentation of the team, logistics information, gadgets distribution and start of the program. Walking down to the city center. Outdoor team building activity “The Mission Impossible game in Soverato”. Getting to know the important places of the city, the orientation points, traditions and cultural elements, interacting with local citizens.
12:30 end of the morning activity with a debriefing and logistic info
Free time for lunch or to enjoy the beach
Organized lift from the city center to the Villa.
Monday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00
“Experience Calabria. A place to live, a place to love”. Presentation of JUMP and of the most important cultural elements of the region. Participants will have the opportunity to introduce themselves and present their activities, fostering a moment of international cultural exchange.
Dinner organized for all the groups in a local restaurant.
Tuesday morning session: 09:30 – 12:30
Meeting on the terrace of Villa Gabriella.
First outdoor ice breaking game to get to know each other and create a good working climate.
Division in small groups and start of the indoors or outdoor sessions with the JUMP trainer.
Introduction to Module 1, The actual scenario of video making in communication and education. Media Education and MIL. Connection with videos and digital storytelling. Video-making basics and the storyboard
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Tuesday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:30
1st excursion to develop cultural knowledge, strengthen team building and socialization among participants.
“Walking tour to the old village of Soverato Superiore, visit to the Church of “La Pietà” of Gagini and exploring the narrow streets. Interacting with local people.
Free evening to enjoy the city center
Wednesday morning session: 09:30 – 12:30
Module 2, Different tools, different goals, and different qualities in video making. Students from content beneficiaries to content creators
Module 3, The systematic instruction of media critical analysis and production skills through various media contents and technologies
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Wednesday afternoon session: 15:00 – 17:00
Module 4, Promoting critical thinking, autonomy, and initiative in dealing with media messages. Strengthening the capacities, rights, and responsibilities of individuals vis à vis the media
Free evening to enjoy the city center or rest
Thursday morning session:09:30 – 12:30
Module 5, Practical workshop on Video Making. Different types of shootings and techniques. Audio Production in video making. Organizing the materials and planning the video. Videos for educational purposes. Video Skills in action. Outdoor part. Video production. Teamwork and creativity to learn together.
13:00 – 15:00 lunch break and free time
Thursday afternoon is (usually) free time.
The staff will provide some suggestions for possible activities or excursions. For example to Catanzaro city, Capital of the region
Friday morning session: 09:30 – 11:00 (shorter morning lesson).
Module 6,Video editing. Rendering, downloading and watching with a critical final evaluation
11:00 free time to visit the local market which is nice and folkloristic.
On Friday – at an agreed time – usually in the afternoon – it’s organized as an excursion in a beautiful and unique old village with a final dinner. The staff enjoys it and there’s a professional guide with us.
Depending on the season the excursion starts in the morning or in the afternoon. From July to September it’s usually in the afternoon-evening for the high heat.
Saturday morning session: 09:30 – 12:00
Closing the course: Evaluation and delivery of formal certificates/Europass and admin documents.
Saturday afternoon:
Free time and last moments all the participants together for socialization.
Sunday:
Departure of participants.
The indicated times may suffer some changes depending on the season (earlier in the winter time and later in the summertime).
TRAINING MODULES
Module 1: The actual scenario of video making in communication and education. Media Education and MIL. Connection with videos and digital storytelling. Video-making basics and the storyboard
Module 2: Different tools, different goals, and different qualities in video making. Students from content beneficiaries to content creators
Module 3: The systematic instruction of media critical analysis and production skills through various media contents and technologies
Module 4: Promoting critical thinking, autonomy, and initiative in dealing with media messages. Strengthening the capacities, rights, and responsibilities of individuals vis à vis the media
Module 5: Practical workshop on Video Making. Different types of shootings and techniques. Audio Production in video making. Organizing the materials and planning the video. Videos for educational purposes. Video Skills in action. Outdoor part. Video production. Teamwork and creativity to learn together.
Module 6: Video editing. Rendering, downloading and watching with a critical final evaluation
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
At the end of this course, the participants will have
- improved their understanding and awareness about Media Education and MIL and the importance and relevance of its use in nowadays school system
- developed technical skills related to the pre-production, production and post production phase of video making applied to educational contexts
- widened their perspective and skills related to the use of video storytelling for educational purposes
- developed their creativity and ability to engage students with innovative methodologies that promote collaboration and active participation
- learnt how to promote critical thinking and autonomy for a more conscious approach to media by students, moving from passive users to conscious and skilled content creators
certification details
JUMP certifies 36 hours for 6 days course (6*6) or more if necessary by adding extra hours per day. Or 30 hours for a 5 days course (6*5).
The course can also be extended to a 2 weeks course with the option of 10 days or 12 days if desired and agreed upon, depending on the sending organization’s project.
10 days are without weekend (5+5), 12 days are from Monday to Saturday morning (6+6)
At the end of the training, JUMP issues a formal certificate of attendance, and the team is available to complete the Europass certification document according to the EU template and other documents required for reporting by the sending organization.
Certification details
Our courses are in line with the Erasmus+ Quality standards for courses under Key Action 1 (learning mobility of individuals)
Costs
The costs are fully covered by the Erasmus grant. Write to us: info@associazionejump.it to request information about the costs and the services offered and to plan your mobility project in Soverato with JUMP.
How to apply
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