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. |
Digital Citizenship resources
This website created by Common Sense organisation contains a range of resources for teaching digital citizenship to students of a range of ages and levels. The resources are organised based on the following educational levels:
The resources range from videos, to presentation slides, customisable resources as well as bilingual material. So if you are a teacher or parent you can explore the various resources to see what is relevant for your students or children’s needs.
Find the fake
This is an online quiz on the topic of fake news. The quiz is divided in three parts. You start with the first part and you progress to the next quizzes. Also you need to select the quiz that best suits the child’s age. It takes about 15 – 30 mins to play to get the best out of it.
Interactive Critical Digital Literacies Framework
Interactive Critical Digital Literacies Framework with all the information in it