The goals of the workshop were to teach the topic of climate change to 8th graders and develop their skills of online inquiry.The students made presentations of climate change to different target groups. The workshop was part of the larger Climate change project (‘theme days’) for all 8th graders. The workshop lasted three days, during which the students learned methods for online inquiry, how to be critical to the data in the Internet and search for suitable data to their target group (e.g. pre-school children, other students in the lower secondary school, parents and the local people in the suburb area). The students designed and created presentations, such as videos, articles to the local magazine and a speech to the school radio. All the presentations were published after the workshop.
Food surplus workshop
| This project on food surplus was carried out in October 2020 with eighth-grade students in Finland. In total eight Finnish teachers participated in the planning and implementation of this theme week and two teachers planned this workshop on food surplus. The preliminary planning of this project took about three days and the last day of this theme week was used for evaluation and reporting of the workshops.
The aim of this project was to learn about climate change with different themes. Other goals for this project were learning about different digital text types and creating them. The eighth-grade students of a Finnish lower secondary school were divided into groups of about 10 students and they worked together in a two-day workshop with the direction of two teachers. The outcome of this project were different multimodal presentations made by the students. |
My data and privacy online toolkit
This is tookit that contains a range of resources that aim to help teachers, students and parents answer questions regarding data and privacy online. It has been designed and developed in discussion with young people in the UK.
As the creators of the toolkit state: “We developed this online toolkit to promote children’s understanding of the digital environment and support them to make good decisions about privacy online. The toolkit is aimed at children of secondary school age, parents and educators, and was developed with the participation of a mix of children in Years 8 and 10. It includes information and resources on: why privacy online is important, how online data is generated and used, children’s rights, privacy-related risks and protective strategies, where to seek support, suggestions and recommendations from children, and fun resources to watch and play.”
Interactive Critical Digital Literacies Framework
Interactive Critical Digital Literacies Framework with all the information in it
Challenges for teachers’ to teach Critical Digital Literacies
This resource is a video where the Finnish teachers, Arja Kangasharju and Susanna Talka-Korhonen from Lintumetsä school, discuss issues related to Critical Digital Literacies: students’ digital competencies, challenges for teachers’ to teach Critical Digital Literacies competencies and relevant issues to teach to students. The discussion is in Finnish but there are subtitles in English. The length of the video is 4.46 minutes.