Our bulletin board at school.
2nd ESO Bil A/B
Our project is based on how to deal with the phenomenon of misinformation and false news, the project promotes the development of English language skills in students and the use of modern teaching methods. In addition, students will develop 21st century skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, digital literacy, creativity and media literacy.
AIMS
It is expected that students will Define media literacy, types of it, examples of communication media, examples of digital media and interactive media;
• Recognize the effect of fake news;
• Have to develop multimedia skills;
• Become media-literate in a way that is engaging, fun, and exciting;
• Take a practical look at information they may find online;
• Improve communication in a foreign language (English);
• Develop the spirit of collaboration; and intercultural communication
• Recognize the effect of fake news;
• Have to develop multimedia skills;
• Become media-literate in a way that is engaging, fun, and exciting;
• Take a practical look at information they may find online;
• Improve communication in a foreign language (English);
• Develop the spirit of collaboration; and intercultural communication
These are the countries and schools involved in the project:
GEORGIA
ITALY
ROMANIA
SPAIN
TURKEY
Ali Hikmet Paşa Ortaokulu, Karesi
Dursunbey Şehit Ömer Halisdemir İmam Hatip Ortaokulu, Dursunbey
Korgeneral Enver Akoğlu Ortaokulu, Bandırma
Mehmet Azman Çavuş Ortaokulu, Karesi
Mehmet Ahmet Genç Ortaokulu, Gonen
This is a map showing the location of the schools taking part in the project.
From the very beginning it was meant to be integrated in the curricula of all countries.
At the beginning of October teachers had a meeting, this was the kick off.
The title suggested at the beginning 'Media' was a temporary one because we wanted our students to choose it so that they could feel that the project was theirs.
The students suggested their own ideas in the forum and then they voted to choose the final one and the winner was .... THE YIN YANG OF THE MEDIA
Teachers wrote their expectations from the project:
Pre-surveys were filled by students and teachers and the results were analysed.
Schools were introduced:
Students chose between Pixton and Voki to introduce themselves and the winner was .... VOKI:
It was time to choose a title for the project. After suggesting some possible ones on the forum, we had to VOTE
The winner was 'THE YIN YANG OF THE MEDIA', suggested by a Turkish student.
After having a title the next step was getting a logo and a poster.
It was agreed that every team would suggest a logo and the one for the project would be made with all the suggestions.
These are the ones made by our team.
We voted for the logo that would represent us and this is the result.
The one the team chose to represent us was made by Laura, who got a certificate for it.
And the winner was the one made by the Romanian team.
These are the posters made by all the teams.
We wanted to show our towns and villages.
And then, activities started.
In the first one, 6 students from each school worked in 6 transnational groups of 17 members in the forum, each of them led by 2 or 3 teachers. 16 created dialogues about different topics related to the media:
1. What's the media?
2. The history of the media
3. Misconceptions in the media history
4. From the past to nowadays
5. Smart signs and their meanings in the media
6. The world through an alien's eyes
Finally, the 17th member made a comic based on the dialogues.
These are the wonderful comics made by the students based on the contributions on the forum.
1. What's the media?
2. The history of the media
3. Misconceptions in the media history
4. From the past to nowadays
5. Smart signs and their meanings in the media
6. The world through an alien's eyes
All of them were joined in an awesome book.
The activity was evaluated by means of an attitude scale and these were the results:
At the beginning of November there was a very interesting webinar in Turkey about media literacy.
As a summary:
The next activity had to do with media jobs.
Teams were paired up. Our partner was the one from Edremit, Turkey. Students had to write descriptions, qualifications, ... of the jobs assigned. Ours were 'SCRIPTWRITER & NEWS PRESENTER'.
After writing on the forum, we had to make cards and then games using Learning.apps.
These are the GAMES.
We had fun playing them.
The next activities had to do with FAKE NEWS.
First we dealt with the topic in class using this documents:
Then students were divided into 6 mixed groups in order to make fake news about different topics that would be joined in a newspaper.
1. Breaking news
2. Economy / Weather
3. Sport
4. Entertainment: film, theatre, books, games or music
5. Health / Tourism
6. Fashion / Food and drink
They could use the following tools for their news:
http://www.classtools.net/breakingnews/
https://www.homemade-gifts-made-easy.com/newspaper-generator.html
These are our Spanish news:
Alba was in charge of the weather
Julen dealt with economy.
Inés was responsible for breaking news.
Nerea worked on entertainment.
Irene wrote about fashion.
Carlota thought about food and drink.
Ana invented some fake news about sport.
Laura wrote about tourism.
As a result, we got this wonderful newspaper.
Meanwhile teachers made a Kahoot where students would have to decide whether the sentences were real or fake..
We played it on an online meeting.
Christmas came and we wanted to send our good wishes to all our partners.
In January we worked on social media.
Students were divided in 5 groups with different tasks in order to make a common book.
1. Social Media
Students answered some questions on the forum and wordart pictures and posters were made.
2. Digital Footprint & Cyberbullying
Students answered some questions on the forum and wordart pictures and posters were made.
3. Cyberbullying
Students made posters with slogans.
This is the one made by Olaya.
4. Survey about digital footprint and cyberbullying made by the students.
5. A collaborative story about digital citizenship with drawings.
We had the chance to attend a wonderful and interesting webinar on social media.
In order to celebrate 'Safer Internet Day' we wrote a collaborative acrostic poem using the letters of the day and then we recorded a rap song.
1st we chose the letters and then we read the sentences.
In January we had a wonderful meeting with Arzu's and Demet's students.
We watched two videos, one about Turkey and the other about Spain, in order to play a Kahoot about both countries. Then we introduced ourselves and our hobbies. We had a wonderful time.
We were invited to a webinar organized by our Italian partners about a very important topic.
After dealing with the topic 'Holidays' in class, we made a travel brochure about all the countries involved in the project.
As a final product, we made a multilingual dictionary with words related to the media. In teams we wrote definitions for them, we drew pictures related to them and we read the words in our own languages.
In March teachers had their second online meeting, where they worked and had fun.
They revised the activities done and decided on the future ones and who will carry them out.
They had fun playing a Kahoot about the project.
A good project has to be assessed, so there were post-surveys for students and teachers, which would be compared with the pre-surveys.
Families' opinions are extremely important to assess a project.
We made collages of all our work in order to prepare an ONLINE EXHIBITION.
Everybody had their certificates.
Students ...
and teachers.
We also made some presentations to conclude the project.
A summary of the project.
The project evaluation.
A summary of all the web tools used.
Time flies and we had to say goodbye to each other: the teachers on a Padlet and the students on the Forum.
We assessed our digital competence.
All our students thought about how to improve our high school.
AND THE STUDENTS' EFFORTS WERE REWARDED WITH THE NATIONAL QUALITY LABEL!!!!