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Author - Olga Petrushko
16Mar

Critical Power. Spain, Vilanova de Arousa, 2022

The "Critical Power" training course, which was held in Vilanova de Arousa, Spain in March 2022, was part of the Erasmus+ program. It was conducted within the context of the Skepsis movement.

The "Critical Power" training course funded by the European Union's Erasmus+ programme, brought together 20 youth workers from Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Belarus, Georgia, Greece, Malta, and Spain to develop critical thinking skills and information analysis techniques.

The course, taught using non-formal education methods by Veronika Kurkina, an expert in fake news, was made even more relevant by the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine and the accompanying propaganda and misinformation.

Through group work and discussions, participants were able to analyze propaganda, disinformation, and misinformation techniques and learn how to fact-check information.

Here you can find verified sources about the situation in Ukraine: https://war.ukraine.ua/support-ukraine/
Different ways how you can help Ukraine from any place of the world (not only financially): https://linktr.ee/ukraine_ua

Project was organised by Logos together with partners Arousa Moza and supported by Erasmus+  programme.

Participants of the project in international teams created 4 tools for critical thinking promotion among youngsters that are open for public, below you can find more information about it:

1. How to understand what biases and framing are and how they affect our processing.

3. How to understand the knowledge of forming arguments for a conversation with person who is misinformed.

2. How to recognize fake photos and media manipulations based on them.

4. How to understand the spectrum of opinion and use it during everyday life decisions.

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13Mar

Role Play: Your Way Towards Understanding. Kolin, Czech Republic, 2022.

The "Role Play: Your Way Towards Understanding" training course is being held in Kolin, Czech Republic.

The goal of the program is to increase awareness about human rights through the use of role play.

Throughout the week, participants shared their knowledge on human rights and violations of those rights in their respective countries, providing real life examples and stories. The group made tough decisions about characters with different backgrounds and perspectives and worked to challenge prejudices and see stories from different viewpoints.

A game about critical thinking taught the participants the importance of evaluating information, data, and news from reliable sources, and to question how information is shared and presented. The group learned that it's necessary to investigate and reach transparent pieces of information to make informed decisions.

Overall, the "Role Play: Your Way Towards Understanding" training course is a unique and impactful way to raise awareness about human rights, encouraging participants to think critically, challenge prejudices, and see different perspectives.

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21Oct

Skepsis. Learning never ends. Kolin, Czech Republic, 2021

“Skepsis. Learning never ends” is a training course that was held in Kolin, Czech republic. This project was about critical thinking and media literacy, made as a part of the international Skepsis Movement.

For 7 days participants discussed fake news and how they are spreading. How people and institutions manipulate our opinion. How countries wield propaganda and what we should do with that. We debated about active citizenship and democracy, played lots of Kahoots and got everyone a pair of beautiful Skepsis socks.

As a part of the project, participants developed some workshops, which could be used by youth workers, educators and NGO activists when educating about critical thinking and media literacy. And now we want to share them with you:

  • Fake news, Fake Photos. This workshop will let you understand how to spot fake news and fake photos. 
  • Gender stereotypes in media. You will learn about gender stereotypes on the media, recognize them, find new solutions in order to break them.
  • Manipulation during elections workshop will give you understanding which techniques are used during the elections to manipulate voters behaviour.
  • Defeating propaganda workshop will teach people about techniques of propaganda used in politics and commercials and how to not be influenced by them
  • Thanks to the Soft power in movies, TV shows workshop one will learn how soft power is used in movies and TV shows and how they influence our perception to events presented in scenes
  • Strategies for developing critical thinking. This workshop will let you understand the methods of developing critical thinking and choose the one suitable for you

This project was implemented by Logos and CEFIG together with partners E U R O S U D , CIA Gostivar, Labdaros ir paramos fondas „G vaikų pasaulis", Goodness of People Sweden, GEYC, Asociación Las Niñas del Tul with the support of the Czech National agency and Erasmus+  programme.

Each folder contains workshop description and all necessary materials, printouts. Feel free to use these tools in your work and share it with your partners!

Fake news, Fake Photos.

Gender stereotypes in media.

Manipulation during elections workshop

Defeating propaganda workshop

 

 Soft power in movies, TV shows workshop 

Strategies for developing critical thinking.

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