DEVELOPING DIGITAL COMPETENCES AGAINST FAKE NEWS and DISINFORMATION
FI.DO project
Fake news and disinformation have become a particular concern, which is why Rusaalka decided to join the international project FI.DO (from the English acronym: “Fighting Fake News and Disinformation”), Fighting Fake News and Disinformation, co-funded by the European Union within the Erasmus plus Strategic Partnership for Innovation programme.
This year we started a two-year project with Slovenian, Greek, Italian and Polish partners. Rusaalka is a video production company based in Ljubljana, which has been working internationally for many years. Some of its members are also involved in media content analysis, hate speech monitoring and identifying false information online. Me, as an adult educator, I am interested in training adults in digital competences for active citizenship. In the FIDO project, Rusaalka will bring the expertise and experiences we have gained in monitoring hate speech, false and misleading content and disinformation online. We will help partners to develop training modules: a training method for adults, a trainers’ manual and a serious computer game. We meet partners once a month via Google Meet, in online chat rooms. Our partners have different expertise (web design, computer programming, adult education, etc.) and based on this, we divide the tasks between us.
Once the first module of the training method will be developed, Zasavska Ljudska Univerza in Trbovlje, which has already developed non-formal adult education programmes, will take over such training in Slovenia. Readers will be kept up to date with further developments of the FIDO Project. You can also follow the project’s development on our Facebook page.
Z RAZVOJEM DIGITALNIH KOMPETENC PROTI LAŽNIM NOVICAM
Projekt FI.DO
Lažne vsebine in dezinformacije so postale posebej zaskrbljujoč pojav Zato smo se v Rusaalki odločili, da se bomo pridružili mednarodnemu projektu FI.DO (iz angleške kratice: »Fighting Fake News and Disinformation«), Boj proti lažnim novicam in dezinformacijam, ki ga znotraj programa Erasmus plus Strateško partnerstvo za inovacije sofinancira Evropska Unija. Letos smo začeli z dvoletnim projektom, pri katerem sodelujemo s slovenskimi, grškimi, italijanskimi in poljskimi partnerji. Rusaalka je video-produkcijska hiša s sedežem v Ljubljani, ki pa že vrsto let deluje na mednarodnem področju. Nekateri člani se ukvarjajo tudi z analizo medijskih vsebin, spremljanjem sovražnega govora ter prepoznavanjem lažnih informacij na spletu. Kot andragoginjo me zanima izobraževanje digitalnih kompetenc odraslih za aktivno državljanstvo. V projekt FIDO bo Rusaalka prinesla strokovno znanje in izkušnje, ki smo si jih pridobili pri spremljanju sovražnega govora, lažne in zavajajoče vsebine ter dezinformacij na spletu. Partnerjem bomo pomagali pri oblikovanju izobraževalnih modulov: metoda usposabljanja za odrasle, priročnik za trenerje ter resna računalniška igrica. S partnerji se srečujemo enkrat mesečno po spletni klepetalnici Google Meet. Naši drugi partnerji imajo različno strokovno znanje (spletno oblikovanje, računalniško programiranje, izobraževanje odraslih itd.) in na podlagi tega si sodelavci med seboj razdelimo naloge. Ko bo izdelan prvi modul metoda usposabljanja, bo v Sloveniji tako usposabljanje prevzela Zasavska Ljudska Univerza iz Trbovelj, ki že ima razvite neformalne izobraževalne programe za odrasle. Bralce bomo sproti obveščali o nadaljnjem razvoju projekta FIDO.
Razvoj projekta lahko spremljate tudi na naši Facebook strani: FIDO Project: Fighting Fake News & Disinformation | Facebook.
The article was originally published in Slovenian in December’s issue of Andragogical Association of Slovenia.
Project is supported by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
