Pandora's Box in Homes and Pockets!

"<< Background >>Today digital technologies are used in every field of life. It is the inevitable truth of today's world. However, today's World's common problem, covid19 pandemia, has created its own digital citizens, digital systems and digital market, and also digital threads in itself. Each person is using at least the very basics of digital tools compulsorily. This situation has brought also danger with its convenience. Cyber crimes, such as cyber bullying, phishing, identity theft, espionage, cyber extortion, blackmailing... etc. have bursted. So, safe internet usage has become vital for each individual. Besides all these, internet has become a whispering shadow for all people all day long. In every respect somebody behind internet and social media has began to lead people easily according to their personal aims. A concept called ""infollution"" emerged. Disinformation and misinformation has become to be the essential issues in people's life. In this situation ""Media Literacy and Disinformation"" has become the cornerstones to be safe in this digital world.As teachers we are the ones who have to tackle with these issues more, because of our responsibilities and duties towards our students. All these were enough for us to write this project.<< Objectives >>Our target was *To enable participants to gain the ability to create constructive media messages and dialogues,*To create media literacy awareness in participants’ mind and encourage them to think critically, *To enable them to gain individually,culturally,polically,socially thinking when evaluating messages,*To teach their digital responsibilities and digital rights,*To enable our students to adapt to be a part of European citizenship and to use English in real life. It was important for all of us to see that we were not alone in this problem, and unity in practice could improve us and we could learn how to be in secure in digital world by observing eachother. All these objectives were achieved.Due to the activities,we wanted *to see the good practices and precautions in other European countries,*to get their opinions and to give them opinions,*to do colleborative works with other countries for permanent learning,*to disseminate what we learn.<< Implementation >>""Virtual Seminar on Web 2.0 Tools To Be Used in The Project andBasic terms of Media Literacy"" was the first activity and the host was Ireland.The very basic glossary and web2 tools (canva,fliphtml5,memrise,answergarden,linoit,padlet) were explained during three days with two sections.Second mobility was in Türkiye and face to face.First day,""What is media literacy?"" and puzzle activiy; second day,""advertising film review"";third day ""social media research""; the the last day ""Popular culture discussion"" was held. Third mobility was in North Macedonia and ""What is disinformation, misinformation and fake news?"" was the topic and it was told via presentations and games. The fourth and the last mobility was in Italy. The topic were eSafety, esafetylabel.eu at schools and social media. Drama and puzzle activities were done. At the end of the acivities short trips were organize in close areas. << Results >>These activities enabled the participants to gain the ability to create constructive media messages and create media literacy awareness in their minds.By analyzing situations and incidents in real life they were encouraged to think critically.Coming together with people from other countries they were adapted to be a part of European citizenship.Exposure to the target second language participants found the chance to improve themselves in daily communication in English. They used English in real life so it became a stimulus for them to be motivated to learn it."