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Media Literacy for Active Citizens, Sanem 4th to 11th April 2015 1
Sanem, 4th to 11th April 2015
2 MEDIA LITERACY FOR ACTIVE CITIZENS
Media Literacy Seminar in Luxembourg by Simona ROUDI
he group of adult people from different countries around Europe gathered in
Sanem in Luxembourg with the purpose to learn about media, communication
and active citizenship.
The project which was placed in Sanem, gathered 18 participants from the Czech Republic,
Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, France and Luxembourg. Through different ways of informal
education participants learned the basic concepts about media, communication, identity,
and created different media content.
During the project the participants with different background made several presentation,
played simulation games, theatre, discussion and other workshops related to the media,
they learned how to create videos, make photos, web contents and how to create a
newspaper. Final output was the web site where they presented their work during the
project.
As there was people from different countries,
they spend evenings by learning about other
cultures and their habits, tasted their food,
listened their music, danced their dances,
played their games and learned basics of
several foreign languages.
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Seminar as a part of Grundtvig partnership
The project in Luxembourg is part of the Grundtvig partnership which lasts from August
2013 until July 2015. It is a base to create a long-‐‑term partnership between NGOs
experienced in non-‐‑formal education between partner organization from the Czechs
Republic (Humanitas), France (Together), Luxembourg (Inter-‐‑Actions), Slovenia (Connect),
Poland (EFM) and Turkey (Hep Birlikte).
Partner organizations are aware of the crucial role of the media in today'ʹs democratic
societies. As they wrote in the presentation of the project, a part of being a well-‐‑informed,
responsible and active citizens means also to possess media literacy – to be able to search
and process information, critically analyse information in media and shape one'ʹs opinion.
Because organizations believe, that non-‐‑formal education can be a very efficient for this
purpose, they prepare a project which consists of a Kick-‐‑Off Seminar, four Media
Laboratories and a Final Seminar. After the Seminar in Sanem, representatives from partner
organizations will meet in a Final Seminar in Turkey to discuss the outcome of the project
and to discuss the further options for implementation of the outcomes and other options for
the cooperation among organizations.
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UNITED IN DIVERSITY by Monika PIETRASIK
“All your strength is in your union, All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at
peace henceforth, And as brothers and sisters live together”
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
veryone of us is human who has social role in their own family, job and country. We
still create something and take care of this. In 1th 1993 we found a political-‐‑economic
union. How is our awareness of being European like? How are we improving
relations between the members? Do we feel responsible for Europen Union ? What are we doing to
be active ctizens ? Everybody should give answers to themelves for these questions.
First of all every country is different, has another tradition and country, but despite all of these
variances we are humans who have common goals.We want to live in a country
of peace. Every country is responsible for creating area of freedom, security and justice without
internal frontiers. Europen Union is focused on sustainable development based on balanced
economic growth and social justice. Our goals are to build a social market economy -‐‑ highly
competitive and aiming at full employment and social progress also.
So we know now our aims but just in theory. How can we increase the number of active citizens and
use our knowledge? Europen Union gives citizens a lot of opportunities for young people and
adults. Firstly they organise many projects, events, conferences and trainings for us. They are
available for every member of Europe. Despite of the fact that it is quite a young institution and is
still growing we can involve and try to find solutions and propects for better life.
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Being participants of projects is such a great experience. We can obtain a huge knowledge and share
it with other people from your country. International projects help to broaden our mind, build
union and break many borders. Trainings have influence on your skills. You learn how to be
comunicative, open-‐‑ minded and self-‐‑confident.You
reach knowledge which is not just useful for activity in
Europe Union but also for your academic life or work.
Your skills are much better and wider.
Being involved in politics of Europen Union, for example
in Europen Comisson or European organisations, has
influence on your country. If we want to live in a happy
country we should take care of the whole Europen Union.
Despite of many problems in Europe every citizen has a
duty to be an active member, to find new possibilites and
„open new door”.
We should not lose our chances for being valuable people. Involving in issues related with Europen
Union makes us responsible for our happiness and creating common union which helps each other
and makes us better citizens.
Europen Union is a garden of 28 flowers. We are seeds inside and a future of our garden. Are you
aware of this ...?
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DO WE KNOW HOW TO COMMUNICATE? by Roman SCHMIDT
“Communication is simply the act of transferring information from one place to another”
ne of the basic rules of communication says, that we never communicate so effective as we think. The purpose of the communication is to provide information, to gain information, to get together knowledge and experience, to create/prepare conditions for cooperation, to influence attitudes, etc.
How shoud İ provide information with audience?
When talking in front of an audience, it is important to bear in mind:
• Why İ want to communicate • Who is recipient of information • Who delivers the information • How many information İ will provide • How accurate is the information • Which medium İ am going to use.
All of these elements are necessary to make the communication flow works.
The most used communication channel are surely medias. Do we need them?
Television
It is source of information and entertaitment. The first TV set was made in 1929 but the remout control was made 27 years later in 1956. TV became a drug for the young generation which devotes almost all free time to watching TV.
Radio
It is very important invention. From the beginning radio was used for better communicatio among people. Has given important news end directions which has helped many people in wars. Helps to develop our imagination. Help can do all things while listening to the radio.
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Mobile phones
Our grandparents would not have been able to imagine what it is but nowadays almost all people know what a mobile is. We can keep in touch with the others wherever we are. Quality of mobile phones is going up and process are coming down.
Internet
It is vast global network connecting computers across the world. The idea of electronic mailbox was born in 1970s. The www is vast network of information databases.
E-‐‑mails
It is much faster than traditional mail or snail. It arrives in electronic mailbox of the recipients within minutes or seconds.
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DO WE NEED MEDIA LITERACY? by Funda & Mukaddes
“Media Literacy is a basic tool for citizenship in an Information Society”
Pat Aufderheide
hat mass media is: all visual and auditory tools having responsibility on
entertainment, information and education. The development of technology and
the usage of social media by everyone have grown exponentially. We cannot live
without looking at TV, reading newspaper, making decisions and phone calls, checking our
cellphones or social networks for notifications and messages and so on… We believe that has a
powerful influence on us. How?
First of all we keep informed about everything around the world via mass media. We can also find
all information we’d like to learn in a short time. We go to places we will never visit or reach
activities we cannot do. Moreover,it is the easiest way to get to know cultures, diversities and
similarities of other countries
better. We have changes to get
socialized. However they help us
develop ourselves in the area of
education.
On the other hand the media
companies want to earn much
more money every day. For that
reason they exploit our feelings
and opinions and shape our
beliefs. The politicians often use
mass media to create false agenda
and shape to propagate their ideas.
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Ads have a significant influence on us and make us consume everything even though we don’t
need. So obesity and anorexia have been one of the most important problems of nations.
From this point of view, media literacy is an indispensable subject so that we can properly
understand and use tools that come into our lives so much. All parents being in the first place with
whole members of societies should do their parts and European Union must support training
programmes concerning with media literacy increasingly.
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Relıgıon – only anachronısm of past ages? by Roman SCHMIDT
long tıme ago a man has started to realıze, that ‘somethıng’ was above hım, that
human beıng needs communıty of the others, that he needs to fulfıl not only hıs basıc
human needs as the meal, drınkıng or sleepıng, but he also desıres other human beıngs
around hım, theırs presence, mutual ınteractıons, belongıngs, nearness and the love.
Unfortunatelly durıng ages happened countless sıtuatıons when one human beıng mısunderstood
to the other and the unhappıness or fatalıty was ın the world.
For long ages were relıgıons/faıths/belıef as communıty or confessıon of belıef when people
confess theır personal belıef ın Somebody or Somethıng. Mostly lıke revelatıon of God’s Word and
for ımportant and only one scale of theır lıfe and belıef.
Many world relıgıons are sımılar, but only several of them are untypıccal compared to the others.
They are: Chrıstıanıty, Islam and Judaısm. All of them are about personal belıef, whıch ıs
peofessıng basıc and everlastıng confessıon of belıef, word herıtage, wısdom and knowledge.
The purpose of thıs artıcle ıs not to provoke emotıons and to appraıse any sıngle epızode, ages or
thoughts of relıgıons ın sıngles. All these relıgıons gave and stıll are gıvıng to whole the world
constant values accross ages/centurıes, ın spıte of growıng relatıvısm of all an almost ın all thıng
among us.
One can only agree, ıf we want to be true to ourselves and wıth respect to the others, that our roots
all of us are ın the wısdom towards to God. And God, ıt seems, dıd great thıngs. But how that ıs ın
harsh contrast to our actıng, whıch ıs mostly totally dıfferent from our basıc desıre – love.
And ın spıte of thıs, eventhough we feel hıgher prıncıples of lıfe around us , tooth and naıl we
often defense to keep ınsıde us moral prıncıples and by our actıng we often dısclaım human beıng
ın us and thınk that we can to do everythıng usıng all possıble meanıngs. And as we want more
and more, we are more poor and lost as babe ın the woods.
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So, belongs the relıgıons ınto our century
or ıs ıs anachronısm?
Technologıes or researches of all possıble
matters are more and more perect and
people ın good trust thınk that ıt ıs the
rıght way leadıng to the prosperıty, brıght
tomorrows, however ın the frame of
specıous approach one to another person
we do reverse thıng, we have started
process of alıenatıon ıncludıng relatıvısm
of key human values, whıch we can draw on relıgıons. But ıf we would be conducted by these
values ano not by relavıtısatıng them, ıt could be probably one of ways, how to achıeve the quıte ın
our souls not only as one only sıngle man but also as natıons. Once we lose the respect to the
others, we are gettıng start to fall down the chasm and often turn down the others, mostly sımply
ınfluencıng people.
If all above stated ıs true and ıf we are wıllıng to admıt, that probably there ıs Somethıng above us,
and wıll be wıllıng to be ınspıred by belıef, be sıncere each other, respect each other and please
thınk that God’s message ıs probably for everybody of us. Includıng me and you.
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