The Liaison Center for Education and Information Media (CLEMI) on Friday submitted to the Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports Jean-Michel Blanquer the report “Strengthening media education and ‘information and digital citizenship’. The 25-page document, while it is fully aware of the omnipresence of digital technology and the advent of platforms and social networks that are transforming our societies, it notes “the urgency of mobilization and empowerment both individual and collective ”. For him, “media and information education (EMI) therefore has a fundamental and central dimension for the construction of a civic culture and conscience giving students the ability to discern responsible uses of digital technology, to use a critical mind wisely, to understand and interpret the information flows that strip contemporary society, to distinguish knowledge and beliefs, information, false information and conspiracy theories ”. Among the proposals put forward by the report, include the EMI as a “component of actions relating to the Values of the Republic” and “strengthen and structure” the place of the EMI in the initial, in-service and in-service training of teaching staff and professionals. primary and secondary education. But also, make the CLEMI site “the first portal for access to EMI resources bringing together all the resources offered by public operators, the media and other partners” as well as “support” the production of educational resources ” to meet the expectations and needs of teachers and students as closely as possible by drawing inspiration from the MediaLab approach of CLEMI (an offer of digital resources and services intended to develop and promote innovative educational uses in EMI, editor’s note) ”. Or even publish a practical guide “Educating for the media and information at school”. Finally, the report proposes the creation of a “curriculum” of the skills and knowledge of students in MI from school to high school, that each student, “each year”, benefits from an EMI action defined “collectively”. and progressive ”by the educational community while reintroducing at the college the implementation of an interdisciplinary module, by level, on a theme related to the ÉMI with registration in the students’ timetable. The ambition is also to give “more scope” to the Press and Media Week in schools and even to encourage partnerships with the media in order to create “within them” reserves of volunteer journalists to intervene. in establishments. The entire report is available here.
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